By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The weather yesterday and today has been hot, humid and quite sunny with temperatures near 90 (F)

The heat of the last couple days has slowed the falcons and the falcon watchers down but there has been some activity at Seneca Towers (ST) while Donna has visited from New Jersey. Last night (Sunday) she and I witnessed Bith and Sellie flying from the trees down in Seth Green Park up to the bridge, first landing on the south side ledge then up under it a few times and back out.

We believe they spent the day down in the trees to escape the heat. Joyce came over around 5pm to join us on the west side balcony of my 16th floor here at Seneca Towers. The falcons were quiet after the bridge shenanigans. Around 8pm Donna spotted an Osprey in a tree south of ST on the west side bank of the river. I call her old eagle eye. lol

Joyce thought this was a juvie and a few minutes later once again Donna saw another Osprey land in a tree south of the first one. Joyce thought this one was an adult. This osprey wasn’t facing us so it blended in much better with its brown wings.

About the same time a juvie came flying thru going to the south end of the building out of view. The sun set and Joyce left, just as Donna and I thought we were done for the night a juvie flew out from the north end of the building crossing the river into the darkness vanishing into the trees near Nazareth High School on Lake Ave.

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The moon was a sliver in the sky that prompted us to call it a day.around 9pm.

This morning just after sunrise we witnessed 2 falcons flying back and forth from west to east sides of the river bank then going north past the bridge where a 3rd falcon joined them as they went ou of our field of vision. Around 6:45am 2 juvies attacked a gull that was passing thru over the river low. One was in front and the other behind the gull like they were escorting it. They all went out of view until 20 minutes passed. A juvie appeared. landed in a tree then off to another one where he tried a couple different branches and slipped off as they weren’t strong enough to hold his weight. He returned to the original tree he was in.

Donna and I moved from the balcony into my apartment and watched from my living room window as the juvie flew off to the north and vanished into the greenery of the trees. A bit later a Great Blue Heron landed in a tree near where the juvie had been.

No activity was witnessed for the middle of the day as the heat was too much for all of us falcons and humans as well. Donna and I went downtown so she could see our downtown falcons. Unfortunately, she saw only Beauty on the Frontier Communications tower.

The Beautyful one was preening and pulling out feathers when we arrived at the City Hall parking lot. She turned her back to us before taking off to the north.

We left for the Pont de Rennes pedestrian bridge where Joyce and Brian caught up with us to visit for a while. We didn’t see any falcons there and so we left for ST hoping to see some action before the sun set for another day. Right after we arrived 2 falcons appeared at the south end of the building. One of them was a large looking juvie (could Cadence be visiting ST?) who was chasing an adult screaming loudly. The juvie landed on the southwest corner then left and we never saw another falcon ending our watch with another gorgeous sunset.

We’ve had some good times watching the ST falcons since Donna arrived on Friday. She will be going back to New Jersey tomorrow leaving me with many smiles from our visit! 🙂

Click on the links below to see a couple videos I taped

http://youtu.be/TKICRfbUpac

http://youtu.be/X0uxuUv1IhM

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