Morning watch 4-10-13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
We got some thunderstorms during the night but they were done when I left for my watch. It was 45 (F) 7 (C) and very foggy when I arrived downtown at 6:25am.
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I drove around and checked as well as I could, but let’s face it conditions were poor. I didn’t even notice that there was a falcon up on cam 4 until Donna let me know it was Beauty.
<Before fog lifted and after>
At 7:05am Beauty flew to the Mercury money bag (MMB) and started whining. She would whine and wait a long time today for Dot.Ca (DC) to come a callin’! By 8 o’clock the fog had lifted well enough to see the tops of buildings from the Broad St. Bridge where I was parked. The Beautyful one did a lot of stretching while up on Mercury and she was kept busy watching something down in the river below her.
At 8:30am I decided to go to the Brighton Site (BS) to look for DC who was very late this morning. As I arrived I could see 2 falcons doing the bookend trick in the back of the building. Pigott was on the southeast corner with some very wet feathers and DC was on the southwest corner.
<DC
Just after 9am Pigott took off to the front of the building and then DC flew off to the west. I drove around twice before I found Pigott as she was just leaving the window scrape on the west extension. She flew around to the southwest corner that is above the cubby on the west side. DC was nowhere to be found so I left for downtown thinking he went there.
I landed on the BSB at 9:30am and found that Beauty was still on the MMB. I also noticed the elevator over on the outside of the OCSR was going down and it went back up all the way to the top. They were probably testing it for an event to take place next month where people scale the side of the building for charity. Less than 10 minutes later when I wasn’t looking, Beauty left Mercury. When I looked toward Times Square I saw a falcon on cam 4 so I tweeted it was Beauty-wrong, it was DC and Beauty was in the nest box as told to me by Donna one of our cam watchers. TY DC flew off to the north where my view was quickly blocked by buildings so I drove down to the hole and found him on the green strip of the Wilder building.
He was watching some starlings below him and I kept expecting him to dive on them but he never did. He also would whine every once in a while, which I had never heard him do before.
20 minutes later Beauty flew over to the southwest corner of the Wilder building and a few minutes later DC flew up to her and they copulated.
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DC flew off to the west when they were done and Beauty stayed for the next 20 minutes circling the Times Square building and coming to rest under the northwest wing. She was at the back of the ledge and started picking at some cached food.
When DC didn’t appear again I went to BS to check one last time and found that Pigott was by herself and still on the same southwest corner from before when I was there. The fog was starting to drop back down on the city and rain was coming soon too so I ended my watch at 10:40am thinking the falcons would hunker down for a while. Another fun watch in the books making me smile! 🙂
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