Fledge watch 7-24-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
After yesterday the temperature of 62 (F) 17 (C) seemed downright chilly and no issues with humidity
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Dan was on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) when I arrived for my watch. There was a juvie on the base of Mercury.
It flew off to the northwest and 10 minutes later Dan left, so I took a ride and found a juvie on the Wilder building chimney and one on the south side roof of Crossroads.
A few minutes later the chimney juvie flew over to join the Crossroads juvie. I was able to ID one of them as Nor’Easter.
They hung out for about 15 minutes-one of them did some serious stretching and then Nor’Easter flew off to the southwest.
The other juvie took off half a minute later. I flew that direction myself and ended up on Woodbury St. on the south side of Xerox where I found Dot.Ca (DC) on the 8th column from the southwest corner.
DC left while I was enroute to observe him from a different angle. I caught up with him 10 minutes later on OCSR where he was perched on the top ibeam west corner. In between, I spotted 2 juvies flying past the Hall of Justice (HOV) heading south as I was coming down Broad St. by Falcon Watcher Central (stairs down to the hole).
I went back to Broad St. and spotted a juvie on a cage type structure on top of the Hall of Justice and another juvie was circling above it. They both flew in and out of view above the HOV stopping to perch on the cage for a few seconds then flying off again. I was able to ID one of them as Tesh. Eventually, they didn’t show themselves anymore, so I moved on.
It was a long while before I saw another falcon but it was well worth the wait as I found Beauty after not seeing her the last 3 days. She was on the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT) under the platform near the southwest corner.
Suddenly a robin started buzzing the Beautyful one-she kept ducking and had a few things to say to it. Another one joined in and then she had a pair to deal with when all she wanted to do is preen and pluck feathers as she is molting.
Beauty finally had enough and flew north toward Kodak Office-I went there looking for her but was unsuccessful. I saw at least 2 different juvies and the adults on my watch but seeing Beauty is what made me smile as I ended my watch at 10:30am. 🙂
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July 25th, 2014 at 6:35 AM
FYI… it is hotter in IRL than it is in ROC! Go figure.
July 25th, 2014 at 6:23 PM
That’s like a miracle isn’t it Bobbie!? 🙂