Morning watch 11-13-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
It was overcast with a temperature of 35 (F) 2 (C) and not expected to go much higher than that today
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I started my watch on Seth Green Drive at Seneca Towers this morning finding Billie on the west side railing and she had a small package in her talons. This would be the first time I’ve seen a falcon eat on the railing-I know they eat on the roof out of sight because I’ve seen feathers flying.
She flew down a few feet to the south landing on the railing again
Almost immediately Buffalo Billie flew off again, this time down to the south end of the building coming to rest on the side antenna of the tallest antenna on the roof.
I waited a few minutes to see if 99 would show up but he didn’t so I left for downtown around 7:30am. No sightings at first but I did spot Dot.Ca (DC) on the northeast cube of the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT) while on Bragdon Place checking the OCSR elevator shaft.I drove over to the City Hall parking lot just in time to see DC fly south and go into a stoop before leaving my field of vision.
I drove down to Broad St. where I caught up with DC on the west side railing of Widows Walk (WW). He didn’t stay long before he flew around to the north side of WW heading east out of sight.
Next I parked by the Radisson Hotel at Main St. where I spotted DC on the top ibeam southeast side of OCSR where he remained for approximately an hour and a half.
DC didn’t move much more than his head which kept track of everything in the near vicinity. He did scratch a couple times but that was about it. There saw some color left on a vine that grew on the north side of the Main St. bridge-things are pretty much winding down here in the fall foliage category.
I was really surprised I hadn’t seen the Beautyful one so I decided to leave DC at 9:30am and look for her. My first stop was Bragdon Place to check the elevator shaft- I spotted her on the cross beam between the southeast and northeast cubes of FCT. I left there for the City Hall parking lot.
She had her back to me-as I was taping her she walked over to the southeast cube then flew off and landed on the northeast cube, again with her back to me.
No falcons seen at Hawkeye on my way home nor at Seneca Towers but I was happy that I saw both Beauty and DC-I ended my watch smiling at 10am! 🙂
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November 14th, 2014 at 1:57 PM
Sweet!.A good day,if rather co-o-old. Thanks for the remnants of fall leaves..
November 14th, 2014 at 4:27 PM
You got it June! 🙂