An Evening Falcon Watch – All 3 Adults Seen – 6/26/13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
Watchers that joined me this evening: Kathy O and Larry O.
The weather was just about perfect for a summer evening, with a beautiful breeze. There were no bugs out to distract us from watching our falcons tonight.
Kathy O usually stops at the BS location when she gets out of work and has seen Pigott the last couple days. I really wanted to see her, so I headed there first. When I arrived around 6:30 pm, I was greeted by the awesome vocalizations of two Peregrine Falcons coming from the “cubby” on the west end of the building. From the sound of it, Dot.ca had decided to visit Pigott for a short time.
They were both inside the cubby and they were both quite loud. After a few moments, Dot.ca came out to the edge where I could see him and Pigott continued to vocalize.
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Dot.ca took off and flew to the south side of the building. Pigott continued to vocalize from inside the cubby.
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Dot.ca landed on the south side of the building for about five minutes before taking off, heading south. As soon as Dot.ca left the building, Pigott went silent. I drove around to the south side of the building and waited to see if he would return. He did not. More than likely, he headed back downtown.
I drove around to the northwest side of the building and found Pigott up on the NW corner of the NW extension.
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Kathy O joined me and we stayed at BS watching Pigott for awhile before heading downtown. I stayed a little longer hoping to get a flight shot to see how her tail feathers are doing. She stayed where she was checking out all the activity around her. No Turkey Vultures seen tonight. She looked great to me.
Kathy O arrived downtown before me and reported Dot.ca on the Times Square Bldg (TSB) under SE wing, Beauty on Cam 4 and two eyases in view from below.
I joined Kathy O and Larry O at Falcon Watch Central on Broad St across from the Blue Cross Arena (aka War Memorial). Beauty flew off of Cam 4 and over the river heading east. Then Dot.ca took off from the TSB and flew low in front of the OCSR heading in the same direction. We were unable to see where they went.
Beauty returned and landed on the base of the Mercury statue.
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Chris, who lives nearby joined us. I am really happy that the folks around this area are taking an interest in the falcons. It will be nice to have more people watching out for them.
Just as Chris joined us, Dot.ca flew back in from the east and headed straight for the TSB. He turned back and ended up landing on Mercury’s money bag hand.
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When we left at about 8:15 pm, all was quiet and peaceful and both Beauty and Dot.ca were on guard duty from the Mercury statue. The eyases seemed to have settled down. When we first arrived, there was a lot of flapping wings seen at the nest box. It was time to call it a Watch. Good night everyone!
