By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Today is day #4 with no reported sightings of young Orion.  Looks like he’s begun his life journey, but I do hope we see him again sometime doing well.  We will definitely keep on the look out for him, even checking the surrounding area.  We’ve had juveniles, especially the males, that stuck close to downtown, visiting now and then, but staying mostly on the outskirts of the city.

After work, I arrived downtown around 5:00 pm.  After checking out the FCT and other spots north of downtown, I drove over to the Broad St Bridge (BSB).  Shaky & Ei were helping by letting the Watchers know that Beauty was in the nest box.  With the sun full in my face, making it very hard to see the nest box (NB), I decided to go down to Aqueduct St. where I had a nice shady spot to watch from.  I set up my chair where I had a view of the nest box and the old Changing Scenes Restaurant (OCSR).  It was very quiet down there and I was enjoying the sun and warm temps.

At 6:10 pm, a falcon flew in and landed on the top IBeam, south side, of OCSR.  All I could see at first was the back of the bird.  Shaky posted on RFalconcam Now (these are tweets that go out directly to the Watchers on the ground, what the Watchers on the forum are seeing.  This way we can get help from the forum folks about what they are seeing on the cameras. Kathy O joined me.

I soon got an answer from Shaky that Beauty remained in the nest box.  Well that answered my question.  Beauty was still in the nest box and Dot.ca had just arrived, landing on the top Ibeam of OCSR.

(6:40 pm)  Dot.ca soon took off and circled around to the other side of OCSR.  Now where did he go?  He was quickly back, landing again on the top IBeam, more in the center.  At first he was ee-chupping, but quieted down quickly.

At 7:00 pm, Dot.ca took off again, flying fast over us and heading south.  We lost him behind a building, so we did not see where he went.  Ei then tweeted that Beauty had also left the nest box.  Well that was that for watching falcons this evening.  Lisa joined us just before DC took off.  We all went up to the BSB, but it was too late to see where Beauty and Dot.ca went.  They weren’t on the jail tower or any other buildings and I could not see either of them flying above. Now where did they go.  We remained on the bridge until it was close to 7:40 pm and getting dark.

Lisa and Kathy said their goodbyes and I decided to take a look out at BS, because that is the way they were heading.  It was dark there, and I believe I got a glimpse of one falcon in the shadows, but other than that, it was very quiet.  Not a peep from any falcons.

On my way back from the BS location, I made one more trip through downtown.  I could not find any falcons, and again it was very quiet.  Where they both went, I’ll never know.  Hopefully they will be back showing themselves in the morning to MAK.  🙂

Well, we may not have seen Orion, but seeing Beauty and Dot.ca is a wonderful thing.  It makes me want to continue to keep my eyes to the sky to see all it has to offer!

Thanks for continuing to read our Watch Reports and leaving such nice comments.  😀

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