Thursday Afternoon/Evening Falcon Watch – 4/3/14 – Dot.ca, Beauty & and a Yellow Banded Juvie at BS!
By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
A little before 1:00 pm, a tweet came in from Mark B, who works in the Times Square Bldg. “Three-way fight over river/Broad Street/War Memorial. They seemed to chase off the smaller intruder very quickly.”
The Rochester Falcon Watchers jumped into action. Pat, MAK and Dana checked out the area. Thankfully, whatever happened was over quickly. Both Beauty and Dot.ca were seen and all was calm. Thank you Mark for letting us know what was going on downtown.
After work I made a quick trip through downtown and out to the BS location. Downtown I found both Beauty and Dot.ca relaxing on the Wilder Bldg. Beauty was on top of the southwest corner and Dot.ca was below her on the green stripe.
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I left them to check on the BS location where I found the yellow banded juvenile Peregrine Falcon on the south side vent.
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I was really happy to see that s/he was still around and doing well. I had to be somewhere, so I wasn’t able to stay and watch the juvie. But Dana arrived at BS after I left and was able to verify that this juvie had yellow tape on the USFW band. I hope we’re able to ID this falcon soon. Would love to know if it is one of ours!
At 6:45 pm, I continued my watch, first checking out the BS location. No falcons were seen or heard while I was there.
I joined Dana downtown on the Broad St Bridge. Dot.ca was on top of the Chase-Lincoln Tower and Dana believed that Beauty was somewhere to the east of us because that was the direction that Dot.ca was looking.
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While we were chatting, Dot.ca took off. Until rfalconcam watcher NCA tweeted that Dot.ca was in the nest box and that he and Beauty had food, we weren’t sure where he had gone. Thanks NCA! 🙂
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Dot.ca came out of the nest box and landed on top of the Mercury statue. Beauty had also left the nest box, but we weren’t sure where she went.
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Dana and I drove down to Aqueduct St (aka the hole) and looked for Beauty. Finally we found her on the east end of the green strip on Wilder Bldg. Earlier Dot.ca had taken off and we’re pretty sure, due to the vocalization we heard, that he and Beauty had copulated on Wilder. But of course we missed it. lol
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Just before we ended our watch, Beauty flew over to the base of the Mercury statue. Not sure where Dot.ca ended up.
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It was getting dark, so it was time to end our falcon watch. All was quiet and peaceful. Now all we need is an egg! Goodnight everyone!
