By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The morning started out totally overcast with a very light misty rain and a temperature of 60(F) 16(C). It turned out to be partly cloudy later on

So this was the first official fledge watch and since these watches are of long duration and with so many things to report, it is almost impossible to remember all the details. I will do my best and also there are lots of cam watchers that tweet out what they see to help us watchers on the ground-again, it can be difficult to remember so I will be giving a general thank you to all of you! Thank You!!

I arrived downtown and joined Dan on the Broad St. bridge (BSB). Dot.ca (DC) was on the 2nd ibeam south corner of OCSR. All 3 kids were up with one perched at the front of the nest box and the other 2 out on the deck. Beauty was on the Wilder green strip (WGS) snoozing.

It was very quiet for the first hour and a half with Genesee taking a walk on the wall and the rest of the family just relaxing.

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Dan left and soon after at around 7 am Beauty flew to the heel of Mercury-Genesee spoke to her from the end of the wall. And DC moved to the south corner of OCSR from the west corner top ibeam. The kids started stirring as Genesee got on the wall bump-almost like he was on his soap box as he showed them his stuff.

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Larry and Harold came by for a bit as DC disappeared and returned with food for the kids on the deck. Beauty spotted DC but remained on the base of Mercury to watch. DC fed a few bites and then they must have gotten too rough for him or one of them took the food from him-he ended up fleeing back over to OCSR.

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Just before 8am the Beautyful one joined the kids on deck then flew over to the base of Mercury.

Both adults disappeared while a couple of the kids ended up near cam 4 and the boy cave. Joyce reported Beauty was feeding on the deck. I left the hole and went up on the BSB to see if I could spot Beauty and as I got up there saw DC over on the top arm of the jail tower. A few minutes later Beauty was on the south corner napping and DC on the west corner top ibeam of OCSR. Two of the kids were now over  by cam 4 and the boy cave, the other out front by the main cam.

20 minutes later Beauty was on the base of Mercury eating with DC watching her from above on the money bag. Beauty flew off with leftovers and DC was right behind her.

Beauty showed up on the Mercury heel and DC went to the deck with food (probably Beautys’ leftovers) then Beauty went over and started feeding the kids and DC left for OCSR again landing on the top ibeam west corner. Meanwhile, Bronx made his wall debut. Genesee joined his brother after Bronx ran back and forth on the wall a couple times.

CarolP joined me at around 10am-I left to get coffee and while I was gone KathyO joined the watch. We set up our chairs on Aqueduct St. in the hole along the back of Thomson Reuters. New watcher Patty came along a while after that and we all watched as a Turkey Vulture(TV) got escorted out of the area by Beauty. Beauty and DC hung out on OCSR and the boys got off the wall and wnet to the nest box. DC and Beauty flew to the north wall of Times Square at opposite ends then DC took off and I decided to do the same.

Best pic of DC today

I left for home at noon after a delightful first fledge watch of almost 7 hours with lots of reasons to smile! 🙂

Click on the links below to see todays fledge watch videos

http://youtu.be/6xClVruxvwg

http://youtu.be/DWVNmRDdRDo

http://youtu.be/KEXKBUWSwsQ

http://youtu.be/cl7–bl98vI

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