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Morning Falcon Watch with Joyce 10-7-16

By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was a gorgeous fall morning with clear skies, bright sunshine and a temperature of 51 (F) 11 (C)

Joyce was getting bored at home after a recent hip replacement so I picked her up for a falcon watch this morning. We started at Summerville as Dana had reported seeing Genesee (G) on the Coast Guard Tower (CGT). We arrived a bit too late to see him so we went down river on the Charlotte side of the river and found him on the Shumway Marina tower, which is on the Summerville side of the river. This was my first time seeing Genesee since last year when he was a juvie in downtown Rochester. The sun was behind him so the back lighting was not so great.

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I took a pic of the historic Charlotte Genesee Lighthouse which was right behind us after Genesee flew off hunting near the O’Rourke Drawbridge. He soon came back without breakfast landing on the Shumway tower again. This time he was showing a bit more than his back.

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Genesee didn’t stay for long before he was off scaring up pigeons and anything else in the area over by Abbott’s Ice Cream joint at Beach and Lake Avenue. While I was taping him a couple young raccoons walked by in front of me and then ducked under a deck out of sight. I wasn’t fast enough with my camera to photograph them but I can tell you they were very cute! Genesee then appeared up river on the Coast Guard Tower quite a distance from us.

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We split up at this time with Dana going down to the Charlotte pier area and Joyce and I went across the river to Summerville, but Genesee was gone when we arrived. We stayed for a bit waiting to see if he came back and enjoying the scenery. I took a pic of the Port of Rochester across the calm waters of the river which made the water look like glass.

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We left there and proceeded to check Seneca Towers, Medley Center Mall and Hawkeye with no sightings. We then went downtown and were just about to leave when Joyce noticed Dot.ca (DC) on Xerox. He was on the north side, 4 columns over from the northwest corner looking quite small, quite handsome and quite white!

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We left him to check the Brighton site but to no avail. Before taking Joyce home we checked downtown one more time for Beauty but no luck at that either. We were happy to have seen father and son today and ended our watch around 10:45am with smiles on our face! 🙂

Click on the links below to watch a couple videos

https://youtu.be/kp6OEyzenbI

https://youtu.be/dTalGvJavbw

6 Responses to “Morning Falcon Watch with Joyce 10-7-16”

  1. kathy Says:

    Glad you finally got to see Genesee MAK!! Joyce, hope you have a quick recovery and are back to 100% soon! Nice of you take her out MAK, nothing like your falcon family to put a smile on your face 🙂

  2. Lynne Heroux Says:

    All you watchers must like having new places to Falcon Watch ! they look like nice places-we’ll have to go there next summer !!

  3. MAK Says:

    Kathy, you know how happy our falcon families make us! 🙂

  4. MAK Says:

    Lynne, you’ll love the Charlotte area if you get to see it! I grew up not too far from it and have many fond memories. 🙂

  5. Joyce Says:

    Thanks for the outing MAK. Less than 2 weeks after my hip operation, I was really itching to see our falcons. It was so nice to see what Dana, Carol & Pat have been reporting. Loved watching Genesee stir up so many birds.

  6. MAK Says:

    You’re most welcome Joyce! It was nice just seeing Genesee. I’ve been in Charlotte and Summerville numerous times looking for him with no luck. 🙂


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