Watcher Weekend Fledge Watch 7-12-15
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
The weather was sunny and hot with temps in the 80’s both Saturday and Sunday.
The festivities started Friday as out-of-towners arrived in our fair city. Donna from new Jersey with her daughter Kara stayed with me at Seneca Towers. We were treated to a show Friday night and Saturday morning put on by Bith, Billie, Seth and the newest juvie to show up whom I will call Sellie-Se for Seth and llie for Billie. Donna and Carla had a hand in coming up with this name.
Can’t say if that is Bith or Sellie but with the help of Joyce and the pics she took of both juvies on the west side railing of ST Bith is much darker-this will be about the only way to ID one from the other. They are both males with no leg bands so once they leave Rochester we’ll never know what happened to them.
Saturday morning we arrived at the west end of the Pont de Rennes pedestrian bridge for our get together with all the watchers a little after 8am. It was great to sit around and chat with everyone and share some food and falcon stories. Unfortunately, our downtown falcons were scarce for this Watcher Weekend but still a good time was had by all. There was a Cedar Waxwing nest near the meeting spot with babies and everyone had fun watching mama come feed them. Lynda made her famous rainbow jello. There was a fawn relaxing in the tall grass below the bridge and a Great Blue Heron out in the river. And of course, there were watchers!
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Our falcons would make sporadic appearances downtown and at around 3pm some of us decided to go to the Frontier communications tower (FCT) to watch in some shade as Beauty and a juvie were on the FCT. Meanwhile, Lisa had her sights on the other 2 so all 4 were accounted for on Saturday afternoon. We all met at Aqueduct Park for pizza and wings provided by the Genesee Valley Audubon Society (GVAS).
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Everyone left for the night with but a couple falcon sightings as the sun went down.
This morning Carla, Ei, Bonnie and Lukka joined Donna and I at Seneca Towers on the ground and on the top floor west side balcony-22 stories up into the heavens. It was reported that a falcon was on one of the FCT arms so I tested my camera to see if we could see it. There wasn’t any flying but they did get to see falcons on the west side. Donna and I had seen some talon tagging early before the other watchers arrived.
That’s all she wrote-it was a very quiet Watchers Weekend spent with some good people that made me smile on more than one occasion! 🙂
Click on the links below to view videos from the last couple days
July 12th, 2015 at 8:35 PM
Another juvie – wow, that is great and what a surprise. Thanks for the report. Annie
July 12th, 2015 at 9:25 PM
Yes, another one Annie! 🙂
July 13th, 2015 at 8:12 AM
That makes four (Look how quickly I added 2+2) juvies this year..Too bad we won’t have a way to recognize Ellie and Bith after they leave the area! Thanx for the report and happy pics!! Smiles, J.
July 13th, 2015 at 12:18 PM
Yes June, 4 Rochester juvies and who knows maybe more will show up!!! We will enjoy our time with Sellie and Bith, after they leave I will think of them as having a good long life! 🙂