Morning watch 3-18-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Another chilly start with a temp of 16 (F) -9 (C), calm winds,bright sunshine and blue skies
As I made my way down interstate 490 eastbound I just had to grab my camera and shoot a couple pics of the sunrise to start my watch.
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When I arrived downtown Beauty was in the nest box and Dot.Ca (DC) was on the well ledge north of the nest box area. a minute later Beauty flew over to OCSR and landed on the west corner top ibeam. I saw DC next to the main cam on the north side of it and then according to cam watcher Donna (TY) into the nest box he went. I was parked in the hole where I can’t see into the nest box so it’s always helpful to have someone watching the cams to let watchers know what’s going on up there.
Beauty watching DC at nest box
As I was looking around for DC, the Beautyful one left OCSR. I decided to go up on the Broad St. bridge where I had a broader view of things and while I was looking north I spotted a falcon fly off the west side of the Kodak Office (KO) launchpad and circle around to land on the northeast corner of the launchpad. I drove to State St. and ended up in the parking lot of Harmco plumbing supplies on the north side of KO. DC was who I saw fly to the northeast corner and to my delight Beauty was on the northwest corner with her back to me around 7:30am.
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DC flew off 5 minutes later so I drove to the west side of KO parking on Verona St. where I could see the front of Beauty. She was not seeming like she was going anywhere so I decided to go to the Brighton Site to see if DC went there.
I landed at BS around 8:20am finding Pigott on the northwest corner of the west extension and I could hear DC in the cubby chirping.
DC flew out and circled Pigott then back to cubby and started chupping away. 2 more times he went in and out of the cubby trying to lure her in but for some reason Pigott would not join him. She flew north out of view and he followed, then she returned and came to rest on the southwest corner of the west extension.
She flew off again and DC followed to the north with Pigott returning to land on the northwest corner of the west extension-DC went to the southwest corner of the southwest extension. They both did some preening and watching each other for the next 25 minutes or so.
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Then it happened-just before the clock struck 9am DC flew over to Pigott and mated with her. I barely got my camera on them before it was all over getting one still and his exit from her back on video.
DC flew north and a minute later Miss Pigott flew east out of view. When neither returned I went back downtown stopping on the BSB to look around. Beauty was on the top ibeam west corner of OCSR and left just as I was about to grab my camera. She flew to the nest box so I went down to the hole behind He’s Chinese where I could hear echupping. Could DC be in there with her? Yes, he most certainly was as he shot out from the nest box and flew up to the northeast wing ring of the Times Square building.
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Beauty flew out right after him but I didn’t see where she went as I was following his flight up to the ring. I drove over to Irving Place, the alley behind Times Square for a different angle on DC when he turned away from me and as I looked up I noticed Beauty under the northwest wing below him.
At 9:37am Beauty flew north and 5 minutes later DC exited as well.
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I called it a watch at 9:40am and as I was exiting downtown NCAfalcon and Donna reported DC at the nest box. Another action packed watch and sightings of all 3 resident Rochester Peregrine Falcons made for a smiley ride home. 🙂
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March 18th, 2014 at 7:19 PM
always nice to red your reports;
wish there was a box for P
March 18th, 2014 at 8:57 PM
Me too Bev 🙂
March 19th, 2014 at 6:45 AM
Action packed for sure! Thank you, MAK.
March 19th, 2014 at 8:41 AM
You’re most welcome Nora! 🙂