Fledge watch 7-16-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
It was a nice morning for a watch with a starting temperature of 59 (F) 16 (C) and bright blue sunny skies with a few clouds
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Donna and I didn’t find any falcons after checking around downtown so we went to the Pont De Rennes pedestrian bridge at High Falls where Dan was settled on a bench. Beauty was on the southeast cube of the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT), Dot.Ca (DC) was on the southeast corner of the Kodak Office (KO) launchpad and 2 juvies were flying around the KO tower. One of the juvies landed on what Dan named the High ball of the 18th floor on KO.
Dan left after DC flew north so far that he disappeared into the horizon. Donna and I met up with DebbieH on Fitzhugh St. below Widows Walk (WW) where we had Tesh on the northwest corner with food and another juvie on the northeast corner. Eventually all 4 juvies were on WW but Tesh was the only one that ate as she was hogging it all. In time the other 3 left Tesh to it and scattered.
After they all flew off WW we took a ride and found the Beautyful one on the jail tower 3rd arm down and a juvie was on the west side of the Hall of Justice roof.
Next we were back to WW and had 3 juvies there on the east and north side rails-one by one they flew off with 2 of them playing talon tag and vanishing behind buildings to the north.
Later on I spotted a juvie on the northeast corner of City Place playing peekaboo-we drove up to the roof of the Sister Cities parking garage for a closer view and to look for the other 5 downtown falcons.
We left as there was quiet in the kingdom, to take our afternoon break only to return later in the evening. Lisa and Carol were on watch as we met in the hole. Things were quiet at first with 1 juvie under the southeast wing of Times Square, then 2 more joined it under the wing. More watchers started filtering in-Dan, Nick, Nancy, Kris, Bill and Joyce joined the watch. We all ended up going to the Broad St. bridge to watch the 3 juvies sky dance above Xerox, putting on quite an aerial display.
I taped a 4 minute video of the high flying instead of taking pics as the distance was too far for it. After the juvies finished and flew to the Times Square building under the southeast wing and fledge ledge I spotted a Black-crowned Heron in the river. Carol found one on a log and I saw a 3rd one on a rock-2 of them flew up river to the south.
After a great evening watch we all left at 9pm with smiling faces! 🙂
PS-Donna and I are going to Syracuse tomorrow with Joyce to see Pigott and her new digs so there will be no morning watch
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July 17th, 2014 at 4:04 AM
Road trip! Have fun!!
July 17th, 2014 at 5:45 AM
I know we will Bobbie! 🙂
July 17th, 2014 at 10:43 AM
Smiling again! Love the flying acrobatics. Aren’t they having FUN..You have a fun trip…We’ll be watching for your return and report. (Grammajune)
July 17th, 2014 at 9:22 PM
June, they’re having a blast and so are we being privileged enough to witness it whether live on the ground or via pics and videos at home. 🙂