Morning watch 5-4-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
I stepped out to find it very breezy and overcast with a temperature of 47 degrees (F) 8 (C)
As I was getting dressed for the day I heard a falcon outside my window-I bolted over to look but I didn’t see anything. I watched Dot.Ca (DC) relieve Beauty of incubation duties right around 6am on Rfalconcams’ livestream video. As I was walking to my car to leave for my downtown watch I heard a falcon and when I looked up I saw the juvie falcon fly off the northeast corner of my building-Seneca Towers (ST). How cool is that!? Falcons before I even left home!!
It took me about 30 minutes before my first sighting of Beauty. As I was approaching Kodak Office I spotted her on the southeast corner of the launchpad. I pulled over near Platt Street and when I looked up again she was gone! I made my way back to the Times Square (TS) area where I found the Beautyful one on the top ibeam of OCSR near the south corner just before 7am.
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I parked myself by the Radisson Hotel at Main St. to watch as she did some serious preening and looking around for the next 15 minutes. At 7:14am Beauty flew off the building heading straight for TSB but went right past it to the south and went into stoop formation before I lost her.
I spent the next 20 minutes looking for Beauty and finally she showed up under the southeast wing of TSB. I went in front of the Blue Cross Arena on Exchange Blvd. to get the best look at her.
Beauty was hanging on as the wind was trying to blow her off . She kept looking down at the nest box and I thought when she flew off at 7:42am that she would go to it but she fooled me and went back to OCSR again-top ieam southeast side.
I parked back by the Radisson Hotel as Beauty looked around, took a short nap and just did Beauty things.
Some stretching exercises were performed before she took off for the nest box at 8:11am-I missed the take off but I managed to turn fast enough to get the flight up to the nest box.
Beauty went right for the front of the box and DC came out almost immediately after incubating for over 2 hours-he flew over to OCSR and came to rest in almost the same spot that Beauty had vacated, on the top ibeam southeast side.
DC did a lot of preening before I left to check the Brighton site at 8:20am or so. Nothing to be found there-I will keep checking sporadically. When I returned to downtown DC was still on OCSR and still preening.
I stayed with him until 9am then called it a watch. Smiling-you bet! 🙂
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May 5th, 2014 at 12:44 PM
Congrats with your new home and falcons.Thanks for your reports and pictures.I appreciate all you do to keep us informed .Greetings
May 5th, 2014 at 6:44 PM
Greetings Carla-thanks for your comment. I really appreciate it! 🙂