Late Afternoon/Evening Falcon Watch – A Juvie at Russell Station; Probably Billy – 10/15/13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
I only had a couple hours to watch today, so since Beauty, Dot.ca, Pigott and UT had been seen during the day, I decided to go to the lake, hoping to find the juvie named Billy that we’ve been seeing there. At 4:00 pm, I first checked out the Russell Station and then the Charlotte/Summerville area. No falcons at either spot. When I returned to Russell Station, I found fellow Watchers Joyce and MAK. They told me that the juvie had just flown in and landed on one of the stack catwalks. We drove over to the north west side of the plant and watched her fly around the stacks, vocalizing. We found her on the south side of the building on a railing.
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Lisa McK joined us and soon after Billy took off and flew to the north side of the building. Lisa and I went to the north side of the building and found the juvie on the east smokestack on the middle catwalk, and she was eating up there. MAK and Joyce and then Dana joined us on the north side.
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She quickly finished the small bit of food she had and flew over to the east side of the catwalk.
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One more time she took off, this time she flew over us and then headed back to the stacks landing on the west stack catwalk platform this time. When we moved back a bit, we could see that she had more food up there and feathers were flying. I believe she had retrieved one of her caches.
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At 6:00 pm, we all decided to call it a watch. It was a very nice afternoon to be out watching a young falcon with my Watcher friends. Goodnight everyone!
I’ll leave you with one picture that I thought was interesting.
