Morning Fledge Watch 8-14-15
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Had a great start weather wise with sunny blue skies and a temperature of 66 (F) 19 (C) but by the end clouds took over
So I hadn’t been seeing Seth or the juvies at Seneca Towers lately but now I’m not even seeing Billie in the morning. Been quiet at night too. I’m not ready to say good bye yet!!! Anyway, downtown falcons have been scarce too the last few days but I have managed to see Beauty, Dot.ca (DC) and Cadence at times. Today I didn’t see a falcon until nearly 2 hours after I started out. After the first hour or so I decided to check the University of Rochester campus and Strong Memorial Hospital as I had gotten a couple tips that falcons had been seen and heard at both sites recently. I never saw or heard any but I saw some deer that eventually got scared off by a man walking his dog.
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While I was checking these places I got tweets from Donna (thanks D) saying there was a falcon on the northeast cube and then the platform railing of the Frontier Communications tower (FCT). And Larry tweeted from Winthrop St. (East Ave. area near Little Theater) that he could see no falcons from there. When I returned to downtown I went straight to the City Hall parking lot where I found Beauty on the middle arm of FCT with her back to me.
Although I knew the back lighting would be awful from Plymouth Ave. I decided to go there anyway so I could see the front of the Beautyful one. She stayed about 10 minutes then stooped to the west at 8:49am.
I drove west and checked out all the buildings near Main and Broad St. but didn’t find her. 15 minutes later as I was driving east on the Broad St. bridge (BSB) I spotted 2 falcons flying above Xerox. They were the same size and one had rough looking wing feathers so that told me it was Beauty and Cadence. They were riding the therms as it was quite breezy out. I moved to Court St. across from the Court St. parking garage after they disappeared and reappeared.
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After 10 minutes they split up with Cadence going to the northeast corner of the railing below Mercury. I caught up with her on the Broad St. bridge.
It was during this time that the clouds really started to take over between 9-9:30am. Cadence was busy watching pigeons fly back and forth over the river below her and also the rest of the area with a little preening in between.
Crews were lining up portable bathrooms near the Rundell library for an event and so I decided it was time to go and get out of the way as there was lots of activity on the BSB. Cadence gave a wink as I said goodbye ending my watch at 10:15am.
So another ladies only morning watch down in the books with a smile! 🙂
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August 14th, 2015 at 3:44 PM
Nice of a “couple” of ladies to entertain us no matter how briefly..And nice of you to bring them to us! 😉 J.
August 14th, 2015 at 3:56 PM
I love bringing them to y’all! 🙂
August 14th, 2015 at 9:02 PM
Cadence is so pretty. She looks so cute looking at her “manicure” and yes she does have a beautyful tail 🙂
August 14th, 2015 at 9:36 PM
Ginny, Cadence is such a chip off the old block! 🙂