Morning watch 3-6-15
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Brrr, 0(F) -18(C) degrees for most of my watch today-however, the sun came out and shone bright in the blue sky
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I drove straight to the east side today to start my watch on Elm St. at 6:35am where I spotted both Beauty and Dot.ca (DC) on one of the northeast corners of Legacy Tower (LT) formerly Bausch&Lomb. Beauty had food and DC was watching intently
Beauty ate while DC kept an eye on the prize-he eventually rushed the Beautyful one and they both flew off in a blur. It was fun to see DC act like he wasn’t interested by turning away when Beauty would look over at him.
I went looking for them and I didn’t have to go far as I drove over to the Broad St. bridge (BSB) to find Beauty on the base of Mercury continuing to eat her breakfast while DC was perched under the northeast wing of Times Square (TSB) watching her from afar.
This went on for 10 minutes, then DC flew over- at the time, I thought he had tried to grab food but after examining my snippets I could plainly see that he mounted Beauty as she had lifted her tail while eating. It was quick but I got the snippet-he flew out over the river then returned and landed on the green part of the base for a split second then flew off. Beauty never stopped eating throughout this whole sequence. lol
DC didn’t return and when Beauty finished eating she went to the other side of the base out of view. Half a minute later I saw her fly off after a crow, stooping down in the river on it and then I lost her. I got out of my car to have a look at the river and was happy to see open water in spots. The thaw has begun finally.
After stopping for coffee I headed down State St. and spotted Beauty on the south side arch of Kodak Office (KO) while stopped at the traffic light at State and Andrews St. As I pulled over below KO around 7:40am DC was circling the tower. He made an attempt to land on the other side of the arch and changed his mind at the last second. I lost him when he flew behind KO. Beauty had her head tucked in and was all foofed up to stay warm as she rested and digested her breakfast.
I left her after a few minutes to look for DC-found him in his man cave on the south side ledge of the OCSR elevator shaft.
With not much going on downtown I left for home at Seneca Towers where I found no falcons. I did see Billie and 99 yesterday afternoon as they leisurely flew past my living room window instead of their usual faster than a speeding bullet, split second fly by. It was only 8:30am so I took a ride down St. Paul St. to check out Seneca Park and the water birds on the pond. I ended my watch at 9am.
They’re doing well-makes me smile knowing that the park keeps an open spot in the water for them! 🙂
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March 6th, 2015 at 7:20 PM
Yay! pair bonding.
March 6th, 2015 at 10:20 PM
Yep, our falcons are fully engaged in spring courtship and pair bonding! 🙂
March 7th, 2015 at 9:43 AM
There’s joy on our hearts..Spring is doing its thing and so are the falcons!!J.
March 7th, 2015 at 11:12 AM
Yes June, there is much to be joyful about now-the worst weather is behind us and the sound of echupping is in the air! 🙂