Morning watch 3-16-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Well we are back to the cold blustery weather today. As I stepped out the house the 16 degrees (F) -9 (C) and wind hit my face and I instantly teared up. Someone forgot to tell Mother Nature it’s the middle of March!
It took 2 trips around downtown this morning before I had my first falcon sighting at 7:23am. As I came up to the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) from checking the east side I spotted Dot.Ca (DC) on the top ibeam near the south corner of OCSR. I went to my spot by the Radisson Hotel at Main St. for closer viewing.
I shared space with him for less than 10 minutes as he flew off to the northeast out of view behind the hotel at 7:30am.
I went to the Andrews St. Bridge (ASB) and could just barely make out a falcon flying up to and landing on the Kodak Office (KO) launchpad. Next I drove down State St. and pulled over to see who it was way up there-twas DC near the southeast corner!
I left him after a few minutes to go search for the Beautyful one but I couldn’t find her and when I checked KO again DC was gone. At 7:42am I got a tweet from cam watcher Carly (TY) that Beauty and DC had been at the nest box at 7:2oam. I just missed them as I figure I was on the east side at the time. I checked out the High Falls from the ASB and had my first Cormorant sighting of the new year.
I left there as the wind was right in my face out of the north making my eyes tear so much I couldn’t see anything. Made my way to the hole as I spotted Beauty under the southeast wing of the Times Square building (TSB) and DC was over on OCSR plucking feathers from prey on the top ibeam southeast side. Beauty could see DC as he seemed like he was trying to hide at first. She had a few syllables to say as he started ripping into the feathers of his catch-lots of white down feathers so I believe he had a Mourning Dove.
I got a tweet from Larry that he had a falcon over at the Brighton Site (BS) and since I hadn’t seen Pigott in a couple days I left our downtown duo to go check it out. On the way Larry tweeted that there were 2 of them now-had DC left his food for Beauty, stashed it or brought it to Pigott. Hmm, never can tell what he’s doing when it comes to food. So I joined Larry at BS around 8:45am-Pigott was on the west end of the south side vent and DC was on the southeast corner of the roof above her.
Larry said he saw some nice tandem flying and I didn’t miss out for shortly after I arrived they did some more before DC flew into the cubby loudly chirping. Pigott landed on a window across from the cubby on the west extension and had a few chups for him but didn’t join him.
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They both took off again flying south then north over Highland Park where we lost them. Larry left and I stayed a bit longer to see if they’d come back. I headed back downtown and found DC on the top ibeam close to the south corner of OCSR at 9:30am after having a look around for Beauty.
I ended my watch at this time, content and smiling for having seen all 3 of our beloved Rochester Peregrine Falcons! 🙂
Click on the links below to see all of our falcons on video this morning
