A Beautiful Evening for a Four Falcon Watch (6:30-7:45 pm) – 9/13/11
From Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
Well, I’m as certain as I can be that I saw all four Rochester Falcons this evening. At 6:30 pm, dark clouds were approaching from the west. I knew I probably didn’t have much time before it started to rain. My first stop was Kodak Park. Just as I arrived, I saw a falcon flying in from the northeast and landing on top of the tall still. I looked around for another falcon with no luck. It was time to head downtown.
After searching for awhile, I found Beauty on top of the HSBC building, southeast corner. Brian had reported seeing her flying over that area earlier today in the high winds. I let him know she was there and moved on. He texted me to verify that he could see her from his apartment. Cool!
I can’t be 100% sure, but I believe it was Archer that I found on the top I-beam of the north side of OCSR. Now it was raining quite heavily. Time for me to move on. Back to KP.
It was still raining when I arrived back at Kodak Park and I was already losing light. No way my poor old Kodak camera would get any decent pics, so I didn’t even bother. 🙂
I easily found a falcon I believe was Unity sitting in the nook above the scrape on the blue building and another falcon deep in the shadow of the chnook. Was this our Mr C? Both had found shelter from the rain. Smart Pefas. 🙂
After watching them for about 15 mins, I decided to head home, statisfied that I had (I believe) seen all 4 Rochester Falcons.
Hopefully, soon, we’ll get a better idea who our mystery Tiercel is.
Goodnite everyone! Sweet dreams!
September 13th, 2011 at 9:40 PM
Mr. C? Mystery Tiercel?
I just read several blogs back and can find no previous mention of another Tiercel….
What gives?
[sure would be happy if Unity had her own male to make fertile eggs with her]
September 13th, 2011 at 9:46 PM
Hi Alison! We now have a 4th falcon in the mix, a new tiercel. He has been both downtown and at Kodak Park, mostly KP. We’re all crossing our fingers that he’ll hang around and bond with Unity, so that we have two pairs next year. No ID on our mystery tiercel yet.
September 13th, 2011 at 9:53 PM
But, Alison, given our dedicated watchers — they WILL ID the mystery falcon pretty soon. Stay tuned for the next episode. If Toronto can have a few pair of falcons…and some are from Rochester — then we can too! 🙂 We’ll have lots of babies next spring.
September 14th, 2011 at 12:42 AM
We can’t really say for sure that the mystery falcon seen downtown and at KP are one in the same. Since we have no ID we could actually have 2 mystery falcons. We have however confirmed 2 falcons both downtown and at KP at the same time equaling 4. 🙂
September 14th, 2011 at 5:33 AM
This is a test from Bobbie, who always seems to take ages to figure things out… And to say as well: Great reports, MAK!
September 14th, 2011 at 5:33 AM
Yay! It worked this time!
September 14th, 2011 at 5:56 AM
I knew you could do it Bobbie!!! 🙂
September 14th, 2011 at 5:10 PM
Hey Bobbie. You left your comment on the wrong report. Your comment s/b on MAK’s report. 🙂
September 15th, 2011 at 2:07 PM
And why “C”? Mr. T was tiercel, but what is C? The follow-on from A and B?
September 15th, 2011 at 9:04 PM
Well, the new Falcon seems to like hiding out in a new spot on one of the KP buildings. It’s a little nook under a chute. Donna came up with “chnook” for a name for this spot. We decided that Mr. C would be a good name for our new guy. 🙂
September 17th, 2011 at 8:19 AM
Thanks, Carol. Makes perfect sense. As he is banded, we may even find out a real name and then have to decide between chnook & that:-)
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