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Morning watch 11-29-13

By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Another cold morning with clear skies and a temp of 20 (F) -7 (C)

Beauty threw me off a bit today as she was on the southwest side of OCSR as opposed to the southeast side. I stayed with her for a little more than a half hour then I went to Brighton (BS) to see if Dot.Ca (DC) was over there.

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I arrived at BS about 7:40am to find a falcon on the southeast corner of the southeast extension perched in an open spot where Pigott had cleared the snow of yesterday. It flew off as I barely got my camera pointed at it.

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Looked small and white chested so it clearly wasn’t Miss Pigott but I’m not so sure if it was DC or another male. Anyway, I drove round the building and found Pigott on an east facing top floor window ledge on the southwest extension and she was plucking feathers from a small piece of food.

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Part of a wing fell off the edge and I walked over to the building below her to see if I could identify what kind of prey she was eating but it never made it to the ground. I snapped a pic of her above me showing only her tail feathers hanging over the edge.

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After she finished eating Pigott took a stroll to the other end of the ledge and started watching the starlings in the immediate area. She looked up, down and all around.

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She then flew over to the opposite side of the building landing on a west facing window ledge on the southeast extension. This is where I left her to return to downtown.

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When I got to the Broad St. Bridge I couldn’t help but notice 2 white figures on OCSR.ย  I drove down to the holeย  on Bank Place to observe them. The sun was shining bright on Beauty and DC who were on the top ibeam-she was still on the southwest side and he was on the south corner. They were so bright white that I thought I was seeing ghosts!

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I then went down to Graves St. by Aqueduct Park to see if a different angle would cut down on the glare but it really didn’t.

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So I chalked up another 3 falcon watch and left the city smiling at 8:45am! ๐Ÿ™‚

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2 Responses to “Morning watch 11-29-13”

  1. patsy6 Says:

    Oooo, those are spooky pictures of those falcon ghosts, MAK! ๐Ÿ˜‰

  2. MAK Says:

    Boo! ๐Ÿ™‚


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