Morning watch 6-28-11
By Rochester falcon watcher MAK
Beauty was in the nestbox when I left home for my watch and when I arrived downtown she was still there at 5:17am.
It’s kinda dark at this time of the morning lol
I parked on the Broad St. bridge and watched for a little over an hour when the Beautyful one flew out of the nestbox.
I had to get the truck home at this time. As I left I got a message from Donna saying both Beauty and Archer were in the nestbox. So the little sneak Archer pulled a fast one on old MAK again! I swear he must whip in there while I’m blinking sometimes. lol So about 40 minutes later I was checking Kodak Park. No pefa in sight there so I returned to downtown Rochester and found Beauty on the top arm of the Frontier Communications tower.
She flew off when I wasn’t looking. I went over to the Times Square area arriving just in time to see a falcon fly into the nestbox. Donna informed me that both Beauty and Archer were in the nestbox at this time. As I drove down to Aqueduct St. sneaky Archer went over to the top of the fire escape ladder on the Wilder building.
He stayed there for 10 minutes preening and just being his cute self when suddenly he started working on getting a pellet up and out. I saw it come out of his mouth and then he took off. I guess he had to lighten his load a bit!
Next I found Beauty on Widows Walk on the north side railing same place I saw her yesterday.
She stayed there for 20 minutes and flew off while I was speaking to a gentleman on his way to work in the Thomson Reuters building. After checking the Kodak Office tower I found Archer not Beauty on the top arm of the FCT. I had reported on my tweet that it was Beauty but after a closer look on my computer screen it looks like Archer.
It was nice to hang out with Archer today. I ended my watch here when he flew off to parts unknown. 🙂
June 28th, 2011 at 9:22 PM
Archer flying “off to parts unknown”? WE know the parts Archer departs to!
Pellets – I’ve seen it mentioned a few times. I kind of know it is the parts that the falcons do not digest — and I’ve always thought of it as a bird’s hairball. Is that correct? I think I was at a birds of prey exhibit and they had an owl who brought up a pellet. Is that what the Pefas bring up?
How often do they bring up a pellet? Just wondering.
June 28th, 2011 at 10:32 PM
Great report and pics MAK!!
Thank you as always! :-))
June 29th, 2011 at 9:32 AM
Yes we DO know where he goes Margaret, don’t we? lol Hairballs is a good way to describe pellets and yes they are like the ones owls bring up. I guess they bring them up when they need to. I’m not really sure how often.
You’re welcome Ginny and thank you for your comments ladies! 🙂