Morning Fledge Watch 7-22-15
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Another morning with abundant sunshine and blue skies and a temperature of 62 (F) 17 (C)
Seneca Towers had no falcons present when I ventured out this morning and it took me a while to find a falcon downtown as well. It was about 6:15am as I made my way on to the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) after checking the east side that I spotted Beauty on the base of Mercury. I pulled over and got out my car and then I noticed Cadence on the upper roof of Thomson Reuters at the northeast corner.
The Beautyful one left when I was looking at Cadence as she was watching all the bug catchers flitting around the area. I swear my neck started hurting just seeing her cranking her head every which way.
I took a look at the river and was surprised to see how low the water level was-amazing how dams and locks can control such powerful waters.
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Cadence left while I was checking the river on the other side of BSB. It would be 45 minutes before I found a falcon and again it was Beauty. She was on the northeast corner of City Place. I pulled into the Hochstein School of Music parking lot to watch her as she plucked feathers from prey.
Beauty turned her back and moved in on the roof where I couldn’t see her so I drove up to the roof of the Sister Cities parking garage. She flew off suddenly with her prey and took it over to the middle red section east side of the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT).
The neighborhood robin started pestering Beauty but she wasn’t phased by it, she just stood there looking around.
Cadence flew in yelling and landed on the small tower briefly then over to the small platform in the red section below where Beauty was with the food. Cadence walked around to the opposite side eventually and dropped out of view as I got kicked off the roof by security.
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By the time I worked my way back down to the ground again I couldn’t locate Cadence or hear her but Beauty was eating in earnest. I could only stay a few minutes more as I had to do something, so I left Beauty at 8am.
A little over an hour later as I drove through downtown on my way home, I checked around but there were no falcons to be found. I ended my watch at 9:30am after seeing a falcon flying over the river north of Seneca Towers. It wasn’t a watch abundant with falcons like yesterday when I saw all 8 Rochester Peregrine Falcons but it made me smile none the less! 🙂
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July 22nd, 2015 at 10:53 PM
Ah well, ya win some, ya lose some- nice pics of Cadence & Beauty tho 😀
July 22nd, 2015 at 11:18 PM
You’re right about that Patty! And thanks! 🙂
July 23rd, 2015 at 11:50 AM
When any falcons are flying and eating in Rochester its a winning day for the watchers (in person or on line)..Thanks smiling MAK ( from smiling) June.
July 23rd, 2015 at 12:58 PM
Oh June, wait til you see today’s flying falcons! Smiling-oh yeah!!!!! 🙂