Fledge watch 8-16-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
For the most part it was mostly cloudy but the sun did make an appearance briefly-the starting temperature was 52 (F) 11 (C)
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As I pulled on to the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) I spotted Beauty on the Times Square building (TSB) under the northeast wing. She had her back to me so I parked over in front of the Blue Cross Arena (BCA) on Exchange Blvd. She tried to bring up a pellet and was watching everything around her-she flew off 10 minutes later heading southeast.
The Women of Faith convention was at the BCA making for a busy time near the BSB so I decided to go up on the South Ave. garage roof where I would have a birds eye view of downtown. Right away I spotted Tesh eating and pulling feathers from prey on the railing below the Mercury statue.
Carol had been on the pedestrian bridge at High Falls and was now on the BSB watching Tesh as well. I noticed 4 guys on the Wilder roof and Carol saw Dot.Ca (DC) fly in and land on the top ibeam south corner of OCSR. As I was taping down in the river I spotted a Black-crowned Night Heron.
Tesh continued picking at her prize oblivious to everything going on around her. When she had her fill she flew off and up to the base of Mercury with the leftovers then she headed north over the river.
Carol left to return to the gorge and I came down from the garage and went to the hole to hang out with DC for a few minutes.
While I was there the guys on the Wilder roof were shoveling stones into a hose that took them down to a lower roof. I thought maybe DC was keeping an eye on them.
Carol tweeted that Tesh was in the Falcon sucking tree (FST) so I headed over to the High Falls. When I got there Carol was on the observation deck with a heavy mist coming down from the falls-I opted for keeping my camera dry so I didn’t join her.
Suddenly Tesh flew off crossing the river and turning around when she reached the west side of the gorge and returned to the FST. A couple minutes later Carol tweeted that a Red-tail Hawk was on the the west side gorge wall so we believe that’s why Tesh went over there.
In between catching some shut eye Tesh was keeping track of that hawk. Dana joined me and Carol came over from the observation deck.
Dan came by a little bit after that just in time to see Tesh fly out the tree toward us on the bridge and at the last second veer up and over the railing not too far away from us. This big juvie girl then circled back and we could see that there was another hawk she was escorting over to the Genesee Brewery where it landed. Tesh turned around and flew directly over us very close-so cool, and continued up river disappearing behind OCSR.
Dana then spotted another Red-tail over on a building near BB station-this one was a youngster.
I was ready to head out with a smile after the send off Tesh had given me, thus ending my watch at 10am. 🙂
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