Saturday Falcon Watch – Beauty and Dot.ca – 3/19/16
By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
A much colder day, but with bright sunshine and blue sky.
Today I shared my watch with fellow falcon watchers Kathy O and Dana. Lots of fun!
The only falcons we saw today were Beauty and Dot.ca. When I first arrived, Beauty was in the nest box and Dot.ca was on OCSR on the top IBeam. The sun was too bright to get decent pics. Dot.ca glowed bright white.
We were forced to park down on Aqueduct St. (aka “the hole”) due to all the people parked up on the Broad St Bridge. Because of this, we were too close to be able to see Beauty in the nest box.
After we had been there for awhile, Beauty flew out and landed on the top Ibeam near where Dot.ca was. He came off and attempted to copulate with her. For some reason, he failed and headed towards the Powers Bldg. Beauty also took off and we found her on the back corner of Widows Walk (WW). She had food up there. Probably cached from an earlier food offering from Dot.ca that Dana had witnessed.
While we were watching Beauty prep her meal, Dot.ca flew up to her and they copulated. Successfully this time. Dot.ca returned to the top IBeam on OCSR and Beauty continued to eat. We moved around to the west side of WW to get a better view of Beauty.
After she finished her meal, she headed east towards OCSR. We found her back on the top Ibeam near Dot.ca. Since all was peaceful and quiet, we ended out downtown watch.
From there, we checked out Medley Center and Seneca Towers, but had no luck finding anymore falcons.
