Fledge Watch 6-27-15
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
It was a dark, overcast morning with rain on the way and a temperature of 61(F) 16(C)
I turned onto the Broad St. bridge (BSB) and there was no Dan sitting in his chair. I proceeded down to Falcon Watcher Central by the stairs that go down to the hole and found Cadence on the Wilder roof and it looked like someone else was up there with her. Dan pulled up to me and said he overslept and that he was going to the pedestrian bridge (Pont de Rennes) at High Falls. I went down to the hole to hang out with Cadence who came out to the corner-I must have been seeingg things when I thought there were 2 falcons up there. She kept spreading her wings like she was going to take off while I taped a video of her and right after I stopped she did indeed fly off going down Aqueduct St. then turning left at Main St.
I headed to the Andrews St. bridge (ASB) for a look around to see where the rest of the family was and the only one I found was Cadence on the upper north side roof. After scanning the vicinity with my binoculars I headed to the east side where I also had no luck finding any falcons. I checked around the Times Square area and ended up back on ASB to watch Cadence. It was 7am and I still had not seen any other falcons, which I thought was strange. Larry tweeted that he was over by City Hall checking the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT) and a falcon had just flown in -he said it looked like Dot.ca (DC) when I caught up with him at Church and State St. It flew northeast and then Larry said he could hear a juvie whining-that would have been Genesee and he was probably on the platform out of view. Meanwhile, Cadence was walking the roof edge on Crossroads.
Larry had gone up to the BSB and I went back over to ASB. He tweeted that a falcon flew to Mercury, one was under the northeast wing of Times Square and a couple hunting over the Freddy/Sue bridge (490). When I joined him Cadence suddenly appeared, flying right above us and headed southeast over the Rundell Library out of sight. Larry left and I went to check that area and when I turned the corner onto South Ave. I couldn’t help but notice Beauty and the kids on the northwest corner of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield building (BCBS) at the corner of South Ave. and Court St. Dana was taking pictures across the street from where I pulled over.
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Beauty flew down to the southwest corner and that’s when I left to pick up Bella for a walk-I decided to bring her back for a falcon watch. DC came flying in and landed on a front railing briefly then he took to the sky. Kathy joined Dana and I by the south side of the Rundell Library. Cadence remained on the building as Genesee and the Beautyful one had a game of tag where she would land on a corner of the Legacy Tower (formerly Bausch&Lomb) he would knock her off and take over the spot then she went to the opposite corner and he repeated the procedure then she went back to the original corner and this time after he knocked her off he flew off right behind her. they put on a show all around the east side and at one point he stooped on her!
Beauty and Genesee came back to join Cadence with mom landing below the kids on the railing. I don’t know where the food came from but both juvies had a bite to eat as Beauty flew up to supervise. Carol had come around this time.
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The whole time there were a couple robins squawking about these falcons being in their personal space-they were perched on a street light pole below.
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I called it a watch after what seemed like a short 5 hours leaving everyone at about 10:15am. After a slow start it turned out to be a very fun watch that made me smile! 🙂
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June 28th, 2015 at 9:58 AM
Always enjoy watching juvies have fun.. We all just gotta have fun! Smiles, June
June 28th, 2015 at 10:15 AM
Yes June, fun creates smiles! 🙂