Morning watch 9-8-11
By Rochester falcon watcher MAK
Let me begin by saying we have a mystery falcon at KP. Judging by size it is a male which we have named Mr C because it was in the ChNook this morning. And it has possibly been at KP for awhile since the watchers have been seeing one in the chnook for the past 2 weeks or so. In my report yesterday morning I included pics from Tuesday night when I was out with Joyce of a falcon we thought was Archer under the pigeon box. Eileen(dumpsterkitty) didn’t think it looked like Archer and neither did Donna. So perhaps it was Mr C under the pigeon box on Tuesday.
My report today begins downtown where I saw Beauty on the 2nd arm of the jail tower on the east (river)side.
I was parked on Troup St. when the tweet came in from CarolP that she thought there might be 3 falcons at KP. She had to go to work so I sped over to KP to investigate. Sure enough when I arrived I had Archer on the tall still north side catwalk 2nd one down, Unity on the west corner of the blue building and Mr C in the chnook. So indeed we had 4 falcons in Rochester this morning!
Unity flew off and went to the scrape and Archer flew to the black strip by the nook just above the scrape. Mr. C staying put in the chnook.
Unity went to the back of the scrape and was either digging around or had prey, I couldn’t tell for sure and she looked up at Archer now and again.
Unity flew to the tall still landing on the north side catwalk 2nd one down where Archer had been earlier. Soon after that Archer went after a pigeon right in front of Mr C who was still in the chnook. My heart raced at first for I thought it was Mr C that Archer was going after until I realized it was a pigeon. It’s very hard for one person to keep track of 3 falcons don’t ya know! Archer then flew up to the west corner of the blue building. Unity had flown off the tall still when I wasn’t looking and then Mr C departed while I was looking for Unity. Meanwhile, Archer was preening himself seemingly unaware of the fact that another male had left the chnook. Unfortunately I had to get the truck home and end my watch at this point.
I spoke to KathyO when I got home who reported to me that on her way to work she stopped at KP and saw 1 falcon on the tall still and 1 on the blue building. She also called a friend of hers who is one of the security guards at KP and asked that he report to her any fights or falcons down on the ground should anyone notice.
I have an album from my watch at the link below. Keep your eyes to the sky and keep smiling everyone! 🙂
