Morning watch 6-28-13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
This mornings weather can best be described as soupy. High humidity and dewpoint, rain and fog with a starting temperature of 66 (F) 19 (C)
I arrived in the hole at 5:25am with dark,dreary,dank and drippy conditions. The weather certainly was the story on this morning watch.
I didn’t see either adults around but I did see one of the eyases on the north end of the deck-it would be my first falcon sighting of the day.
I went up to the Broad St. bridge (BSB) to have a look around and spotted a PEFA on the 3rd arm southeast side of the jail tower. The best spot to view was from Court St. next to the Blue Cross Arena (BCA) where I could ID it as Beauty.
The Beautyful one was in hunt mode as she watched for a prey bird to fly near her. 10 minutes later she took off after a pigeon but I lost sight of her behind the Hall of Justice.
Please forgive the bad pics today-the weather is to blame. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! lol
At 5:50am I turned onto Exchange Blvd. heading north toward the Times Square building (TSB) and as I approached Broad St. I could see that Beauty had missed her mark, for she was perched on the southeast corner of the deck by the main cam. I pulled over in front of the BCA before heading back to the hole next to He’s Chinese.
A minute later she flew up to the main cam.
Beauty stayed there for the next 15 minutes looking around and then I watched her fly over to the OCSR south corner top ibeam.
At 6:20am Beauty flew off crossing the river to the east side and out of my line of vision. From the BSB I could see all 3 eyases. For the next hour I searched downtown for a falcon to no avail, so I left for the Brighton site (BS).
I call them the 3 FalconeersAs I pulled onto the entrance road at BS at 7:30am the rain, which up to this point had just been a very light spritz turned into a moderate shower. I expected if Pigott was there she would be hunkered down on a protected window ledge but she surprised me when I spotted her on the east end of the south side vent.
I didn’t stay long at all with Miss Pigott returning downtown to try and find Dot.Ca (DC) who was elusive thus far. I had received a tweet from cam watcher Campgee that Beauty had brought breakfast and the eyases were being fed. Thank you! I knew where Beauty was so I could look for DC when I landed downtown.It wasn’t meant to be, as I searched the city in every direction and couldn’t locate him.
The conditions had deteriorated while I was gone in that the fog was lower on the roof tops,the rain was pouring down out of the sky and the high humidity was giving me fits trying to keep my windows from fogging up. Needless to say visibility was low. After my search for DC I just parked on the BSB and the rain eventually slowed down to where I could see the nest box and deck area a bit better. I could see 1 eyas out front on the deck and Beauty feeding at the front of the nest box.
I made one more trip around the city only to return to the BSB frustrated that I wasn’t able to find DC. I could see Beauty up in front of the nest box.
Although I didn’t see DC and the weather was less than desirable I did end my watch smiling for the plain and simple fact that I am lucky enough to see falcons every day of my life! 🙂
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