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Morning watch 4-17-14

By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Well let’s hope this is the last of the cold below freezing temperatures until next fall as it was 28 degrees (F) -2 (C) with sun and bright blue skies when I left for my watch.  One can hope right!?

So I arrived on the Broad St. bridge (BSB) at 6:25am and could find no falcons. Beauty was on the eggs when I checked the livestream before leaving home. I drove around downtown looking for Dot.Ca (DC) to be hunting somewhere but I had no luck until I returned to the BSB. At 6:47am Beauty flew out from the nest box to check out DC who was on the base of Mercury with food. I thought it was her on the base at first until I saw the white of his chest and feathers floating in the air.  Donna let me know that Beauty had left and returned to the eggs. Thanks D!

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DC kept eating and eating-I thought he would eat it all until he finally stopped around 7:15am, saving a mere snack for Beauty which he took to the deck.

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The Beautyful one was more than ready to grab his food gift and fly to the base of Mercury with it as DC took her place on the eggs. I left the bridge to go down in the hole since Beauty had landed on the only corner of the base of Mercury that you can’t see from the BSB.

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Beauty finished off her meager morsel in less than 5 minutes and began feaking and cleaning off her talons trying to get every last bit of nourishment she could find. After all, a girl gets hungry sitting on eggs all night! When she was done she turned around and took off at 7:30am flying past Times Square around Widows Walk and back thru over to OCSR where she disappeared behind it to the north.

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5 minutes later after a trip over by the Radisson Hotel to look for her I returned to the hole to find Beauty on the north side of the roof that is behind the nest box and well area. She did a lot of preening while I watched her up there and I think she looked like she had a little egg butt so stay tuned there may be a 5th egg laid later on today!

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I left to check Brighton-staying there a good amount of time with no falcon sightings. We miss you Pigott-fly free and be safe wherever you are! At 8:35am I received a tweet, from whom I don’t know-thank you whoever you are, saying DC would not relinquish his spot to Beauty on their eggs. I returned downtown around 8:45am finding no falcons from the BSB so I headed to the Andrews St. bridge checking all points north when I spotted a gray spot on the gray top ibeam north side of OCSR near the west corner. I went down to State St. across from the Rochester Plaza Hotel to find Beauty lurking in the shadows.

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I had to get going so I ended my watch there at 9am with a smile for all is good in the downtown Rochester Falcon world! 🙂

Click on the 2 links below to view videos of our dynamic duo

http://youtu.be/fkVx-nftcDI

http://youtu.be/ZFdQpo9i-ts

3 Responses to “Morning watch 4-17-14”

  1. WLABarb Says:

    Nice to see that all’s calm. Thanks for your report, MAK!

  2. MAK Says:

    Thanks for your comment as well Barb! 🙂

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