Larry OHeron

Highlight: Roc’s flying continues to look better and better. He will be a joy to watch as he continues to improve.

06:35. On cam. One baby falcon around main cam.

On street: adult on Northwest wing Ring. Looks like white breast. Baby Falcon near main Cam.

07:02. Both girls were on the north wall. Both parents flew in with a meal. Beauty stayed to feed girls on bump. DC flew north. Roc remains on crossroads roof.

Roc to the northwest wing. Nice flight and nice braking action. Beauty to crossroads to sit next to DC.

07:11 Beauty to pan cam. Roc left crossroads, did two loops around the times square tower and then landed under the northeast wing. Landing was a 10.0. Apparently the parents left a little cache under the Northeast wing because roc’s eating up there.

DC is on the southwest corner of crossroads glass panels. Roc is under the Northeast wing. Beauty is on pan cam. Girls are on the bump. All of the young falcons have something to eat.

Beauty went Southeast on what looks like a hunt. DC shortly followed in that direction.

07:29. Beauty came in from the southeast with a pigeon. Stashed it somewhere. And then came around the north side of times square. She is currently on the southwest corner of the Wilder building.

DC is on Mercury arm. Beauty is on Southwest corner of Wilder building. Rockl is under the Northeast wing. The girls are on the wall.

DC to the northeast wing ring.

07:44. Beauty to the Southeast and out over the river again.

Rock left Time square, headed south over the river where beauty went. He went into a stoop and then disappeared behind the buildings.

07:55. I believe it was beauty. I had her. Check that just had two falcons at Mercury. Second Falcon came in to dust off beauty from Mercury. Continued on to times square Southeast wing.

I think it’s beauty on Mercury. I think it’s DC that gave her a fly by and went to the southeast swing of times square. Still don’t know where Roc went when he chased after beauty.

07:58. beauty was doing a lot of beautiful looping over the Genesee River between Court Street and broad Street.

Carol p had beauty eating on the library.

DC under Southeast wing. Beauty on Southeast parapet. One girl on bump.

08:19. Both adults are looking to the north.

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

This morning I met Kathy O in the hole (Aqueduct St) at 6:00 am. We quickly found Roc on the back end of the Times Square Bldg (TSB). Right after we found him, he took off and landed on the Telesca Bldg. He flew a lot during our watch. (6:00 am – 3:30 pm) Dana and Larry O also joined us during the watch.

I thought that Roc was going to be his dad Dot.ca’s shadow, but I was wrong. He is a momma’s boy. He loves to follow Beauty wherever she goes. Of course she does feed him more that dad.

Both Geraki and Hope were quite active on the wall. Hope joined her sister at the north end of the wall for the first time. Neither of them fledged today during our watch.

We handed over the Fledge Watch to Carrie and Pat at 3:30 pm.

Here are some of my favorite pictures from today’s fledge watch. Enjoy!

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Pat

There were no new fledges on our afternoon/evening fledge watch on Friday, but Roc and his sisters Hope and Geraki still kept us busy. Roc visited some of our Rochester landmarks and further explored the Times Square Building (including an attempted landing at the very top, on the wing ring), while Geraki and Hope continued flapping and practicing their wing stretches.

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

I arrived downtown at 6:30 am. Kathy O just beat me and Larry O was watching from the Court St. Bridge.

We counted all 5 Rochester Falcons soon after we got there. Beauty was on the TSB’s NE wing ledge, Dot.ca was on the base of Mercury and the three young falcons were near the nest box.

There was a lot of flight lessons by Beauty and Dot.ca, a couple feedings and lots of wingercises by the three young falcons, Roc, Geraki and Hope.

I thought, that maybe, Roc would fly again this morning, but he was content to stay close to home in the company of his family. I’m sure he will fly again soon and that his sisters will join him. I was on watch from 6:30 am to 1:00 pm.

During the watch, we were joined by Watchers Linda, Dana and Jeanne.

Please enjoy these pictures from today’s fledge watch!

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Kathy O, Sue, Shaky, Dana and I were on watch this morning. I missed Larry O, who was there earlier.

It was a very quiet watch. The temps were much cooler than yesterday (70’s F) and there was a gusty wind.

When our watch ended, Carrie arrived to take over. We just missed seeing Roc fledge.

Here are some pictures from today’s fledge watch.

By Larry OHeron

Had one adult under northeast wing. Second adult flew through in front of times square. Then both adults were gone. Now one adult is under the Northeast wing again. The other adult is on Mercury’s arm.

All three eyases in area of nest box. Fanning from top of camera four. Fanning in the tray.

Adults on parapet above nest box. Adult on Mercury’s arm..

Adult left Mercury.

DC on OCSR, Southeast face. Beauty on parapet. One eyas by main cam. On Cam: one eyas on North wall. One eyas lying down in tray.

Baby falcon to North wall.

Adult landed on OCSR, top I-beam, southeast face.

By Larry OHeron

Had one adult on Mercury but it left. Can see all three baby falcons from Court Street. They are all in the vicinity of main cam.

Weather report. Temperature in the high 60s with humidity. Lots of cloud cover this morning. Keeping it pleasant. Right now a rainstorm is expected to come through around 10:30 a.m. not the same without Dan on the bridge with me.

Adult flew in with meal. Eyases had spread themselves out from main cam to the north wall, but gathered back together by main cam for the meal. The one on the north wall gave me a little scare as it seemed to be flapping on the lip of the wall, but all is good now.

Adult to Mercury. Eyases left alone with food.

I believe it was DC that brought the food in and then went to Mercury.

All three baby falcons are back by main cam.

Have all five falcons now. DC is on Mercury’s arm. Beauty is on the southwest corner of the Wilder building. The baby falcons are spread out from main cam to the north wall.

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

It was already warm when we arrived in the hole (aka Aqueduct St). Temps were going to rise into the low to mid-90’s today with a heat index near 100. Not a good day for one of our eyases to fledge.

Watchers Kathy O, Sue, Shaky, Larry O and Carol P. were on fledge watch this morning.

Beauty and Dot.ca were both on Mercury and we could see all three eyases near the nest box.

During our watch (6:30 to 11:00 am), there was a lot of activity by our five falcons. We did not have a fledge during that time and I was thankful. The heat and humidity was rising. Tomorrow promises to be much cooler. Of course, we may still have a fledge today. You just never know!

Here are some pictures that I took during our morning fledge watch. Enjoy! and be safe everyone!

I’ll leave you with two Paranoid Pigeons.

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Kathy O and I arrived downtown around 8:00 am. Roc was out at the north end of the wall. He was standing tall and looking off to the north. Dot.ca was on the OCSR and Beauty was in the nest box area with Geraki and Hope.

Hope came out on the platform for a look around.

Dot.ca came in with food and landed on the wall. Roc came sprinting towards him, forcing Dot.ca to take off, leaving the food on the wall for Roc.

Geraki and Hope watched from the platform.

Geraki came out onto the wall bump and watched Roc eat his fill. When Roc was done, he brought what remained closer to Geraki and she jumped down from the bump and ate what was left.

Geraki and Roc spent most of the watch out on the wall. Roc has lost most of his fluff, unlike Geraki. I believe he will be fledging first and soon.

Hopefully the Fledge Watchers will be able to start watching soon and I hope that some of them will take the time to leave Fledge Watch Reports.

Here’s an added bonus! A video of Dot.ca delivering food to Roc on the wall, then being chased off!

Stay safe everyone!

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Wow!  What a Fledge Watch this has been so far.  All 4 juvies (yes, juvies) have successfully fledged.  The Rochester Falcon Watchers have been very busy, covering from sun up to sun down, in all kinds of weather.  I am so proud of this bunch of very passionate folks that love the falcons and want to be there in case they get into trouble.  Thanks to all of you!

I finally had a chance to go through my 1,400 pictures taken over the past few days, and I’ve chosen a few to share.  Enjoy!

June 19, 2019

<— Donna and Phoenix on the front of the TSB after they fledged.

June 21, 2019

<— Jupiter on Wilder Bldg ladder.

<— Lakota on top of the Times Square Bldg after his Fledge Flight.

<— Donna and Jupiter on the Corner of the Wilder Bldg.

<— Phoenix on the Powers Bldg.

June 22, 2019

<— Phoenix on the Telesca Bldg.

<— Jupiter on WW.

<— Love the flag pics! This year it’s Phoenix’s turn.  🙂

June 23, 2019

<— Dot.ca on Cam 1 aka Pan Cam.

<— Beauty Feeding Lakota on TSB Well Wall.

<— Phoenix on the Parapet Ledge, just above the nest box.

<— Phoenix is the first juvie to make it to the top of Cam 1 this year!

<— This is my favorite pic so far.  Beauty landed with food and Donna chased her, while Phoenix watched from above.  🙂

<— Donna on Wilder looking for a shady spot.

<— Beauty loves to spread her wings on the Wilder green stripe. A well deserved rest!

<— Time to get back to work!  Beauty takes off from the Wilder Bldg.

<— Beauty and Dot.ca meet for a short ee-chup session on the OCSR.

<— Phoenix and Lakota spent a lot of the day on the TSB well wall, near the nest box.  They practiced flapping their wings and strengthening their muscles.  They were the last two to fledge and I was happy to see them do this.

<— Jupiter, Donna and Beauty on WW.  We saw a lot of Jupiter today, but it was mostly flying high and fast with Beauty and Dot.ca.  He also loves to chase his sister Donna.  When he was tired, he spent time napping on the ledge above the nest box in the shade.

We’ve also noticed that when Beauty and Dot.ca alarm kak when a TV or other intruder flies too close to the Times Square Bldg, both Donna and Jupiter both join their parents by alarm kaking loudly and looking up.  Just one part of their training which they’ll go through over the next couple months.

So sorry I haven’t had a lot of time to leave more detailed reports this year.  I’ll add more pictures over the next few days.  The fledge watch continues for the next week or so.  Watching these four young eyases, fledge and become juvies has been so much fun this year!