Morning Falcon Watch 9-25-15
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Sunny with bright blue skies and a few clouds-starting temperature was 54 (F) 12 (C)
This morning I found Seth all by himself on the top window ledge north end on Seneca Towers. I found Billie out on the west side railing from Seth Green Dr.
I stayed a few minutes then moved on to downtown. From the Andrews St. bridge (ASB) I spotted Beauty eating on the base of Mercury.
I drove to the Broad St. bridge (BSB) to share space with her. While I was taping a video I noticed a Great Blue Heron (GBH) down in the river. I got some snippets of it flying off after another GBH that came flying in from the north. It made a U-turn and flew over the bridge real low and close to the railing near Thomson Reuters. Good thing a bus or big truck weren’t going by or it would have been hit.
Meanwhile, Beauty finished eating did some feaking and cleaning up. She pooped, roused then turned around and flew northwest.
I guessed she was going over to the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT) so I left and found her there on the bottom arm from Fitzhugh St. around 7:30am.
While I was taping the Beautyful one she went down in the posture when an approaching falcon is coming and sure enough Dot.ca (DC) flew to the south side platform railing then turned his back to me.
A few minutes later, DC quickly flew off real low to the east. In my snippet video you can see him fly off past Beauty. DC returned to FCT coming to rest on the top arm-he started preening and Beauty remained on the bottom arm.
I left our downtown pair at 8am to check the Medley Centre mall in Irondequoit for Big Frank. On my way there I spotted a falcon on a cell tower next to Tops on East Ridge Rd. from Route 104. By the time I got off the expressway and over there it was gone. I suspect it was Big Frank but can’t confirm that. She didn’t show up at the mall for me-I can’t remember the last time I saw her but she’s still going there as Dana and Carol saw her there today.
I headed for home at Seneca Towers where I found Seth on the west railing and Billie on the top south end window ledge. Neither one had food in their crop so they were most likely looking for breakfast to fly by.
I left them at 9:15am-our 4 resident Rochester Peregrine Falcons were seen this morning and as usual, that put a smile on my face! 🙂
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September 26th, 2015 at 10:57 AM
Beautiful pictures Friday of the falcons .Thanks again for your dedication MAK.
September 26th, 2015 at 11:03 AM
Thanks Diane! Our falcons are the biggest part of my life-they’re like family! 🙂