Fledge watch 8-15-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
The morning was mostly dark and overcast with a temperature of 54 (F) 12 (C) but the sun did peek thru the clouds for a brief time
I drove around a bit before finding a falcon-as I checked from the Strong Museum of Play parking lot, I spotted a juvie who I identified as Nor’Easter on the southwest corner of HSBC railing. I drove to Chestnut St. to observe him at a closer distance.
He flew off less than 5 minutes later heading north-I followed and then I spotted him chasing a crow near Court St. so I doubled back and found him on Bausch & Lomb. He took off from there almost immediately after I saw him then I found him on the east side of HSBC eating a small tidbit of something.
Nor’Easter kept me busy following him this morning-he flew around to the south side of Xerox a couple minutes later and then I spotted Dot.Ca (DC) by accident on the 4th column east side of Xerox and Nor’Easter was right around the corner on the south side roof whining.
DC flew north and when he reached the Chase building he threw on the heat and went into a stoop to the north side of the building out of sight. 20 minutes later Nor’E flew around to the southwest corner long enough to touch down then off to the west side of Xerox.
He went from there to the southeast corner of Xerox and back to the southwest corner finding little bits of food as he went. Nor’E was playing with me.
I lost sight of him, and got a tweet from Pat that Beauty was eating under the northeast wing of the Times Square building (TSB) so I left for the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) to see the Beautyful one. She had feathers stuck all over her face.
Beauty flew off leaving her food behind crossing the river and seemed to be scouting above Xerox. After a few circles she flew to the deck near the nest box-DC was also there and he left quickly flying up to the northeast wing and began eating her leftovers. 
I started taping DC eating and suddenly he flew off disappearing to the southwest. Beauty seemed planted so I went for coffee-when I came out I spotted Beauty flying near the Wilder building. I found her on the top ibeam south corner of OCSR next. Within a couple minutes I heard the whining of a juvie-Nor’Easter flew past his mom and ended up under the southwest wing of TSB.
He spotted something down below and flew off really fast going toward the river-I could barely turn quick enough to keep up with him before he vanished. FYI-his red tape is still hanging.
I went up to the middle of the BSB and located Nor’E on the northeast corner of the railing below Mercury. He was in hunt mode as he stooped straight down the east side of the Thomson Reuters building after a small bird. He missed it just before reaching the river, swooped back up and started chasing anything that was flying over the river between the BSB and Main St. bridge. It was fantastic to see him whipping back and forth above the water as I was able to get a couple flight shots. He is really fast!
Nor’E gave it his best shot and then flew north behind OCSR. I looked up and noticed Beauty was gone but DC was on the 2nd ibeam near the south corner.
I left DC to look for Nor’Easter but never found him again-I didn’t find any of his siblings either. On the Andrews St. Bridge as my last stop I spotted Beauty on the Frontier Communications Tower.
I drove over to Church St. to find her sleeping on a beam in between the platform and southeast cube. I took a couple pics of her then ended my watch at 10am.
I soo left smiling after an action packed morning spent with a juvie Peregrine Falcon named Nor’Easter! 🙂
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August 15th, 2014 at 5:28 PM
Wonderful you got to see Nor’E in his hunting mode! 🙂
August 15th, 2014 at 10:00 PM
He’s really trying hard Patricia! 🙂