Morning watch 6-29-13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Todays weather featured more of the same soggy conditions. Rain,humidity,fog and dark with a starting temperature of 63 (F) 17 (C)
Happy Canada Day to all our Canadian friends today!
Arriving in the hole at 5:23am my first falcon sighting was Beauty flying out from the nest box area to the top ibeam west corner of OCSR.
At 6:11am I spotted Dot.Ca (DC) on the south corner.
<Beauty DC> 
They were both in hunt mode taking time to stretch and poop in between.
<DC Beauty> 
The Beautyful one took off while I was watching DC around 6:30am. I went up to the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) after a few minutes to look for her. DC was now on the Mercury money bag as the misty rain turned into a shower.
Campgee and Annette both reported that Beauty was on cam 4 (thank you). But when I looked she was gone and DC left Mercury while I looked for Beauty. Some days are like that! At 6:47am I spotted Beauty back on the top ibeam west corner of OCSR.
A couple minutes later she flew to the north end of the deck and hopped in toward the nest box out of view. Now the fog was starting to drop down and the rain picked up. From the hole I could see a falcon on the west corner top ibeam of OCSR and with the help of cam watcher Donna was able to determine that it was Beauty. Thanks for the assist! It was at this time I thought I’d go to the Brighton site to check. After 3 trips around the place I tweeted no falcons seen and returned to downtown around 7:30am. There were no adult PEFAs in sight but I did see 2 eyases up on the deck.
Now parked in the hole I spotted Beauty once again on the west corner of OCSR. It was a tough morning for catching prey since they were staying out of the rain.
I ended my watch early just before the 8 o’clock hour. Seeing those babies up on the deck surely was cause to smile despite the lousy weather! 🙂
2 video links are below-just click and view
http://youtu.be/ClVjeEv4L_w
http://youtu.be/9TwhIrUOXVw
June 29th, 2013 at 12:24 PM
Nice video panning work, MAK! Thanks for your report. Hope the weather clears soon. It’s amazing how much the eyases have changed the past couple days!
June 29th, 2013 at 5:12 PM
Thanks for commenting Barb. These babies are not babies anymore-growing at break neck speed! 🙂
June 29th, 2013 at 10:21 PM
They are changing by the second! they always do at this time of their development! We are having UGLY weather up here, so kudos to you MAK for going out into this. It is not nice weather.
Nice pics despite the conditions. Just catching up…again! thank you for you wonderful reporting that enables me to catch up…on a whole entire day!
June 29th, 2013 at 11:17 PM
Yeah, the last couple days were really snotty weatherwise. It goes with the territory. Thanks for response. 🙂
June 29th, 2013 at 11:36 PM
The eyases grew overnight!
Thank you so much for doing this for us even in the “carpy” weather 🙂
June 30th, 2013 at 4:44 AM
We watchers are like the U.S. postal service-we deliver in any weather! lol 🙂