Morning Falcon Watch 10-13-15
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
A warm, dark start with a temperature of 61 (F) 16 (C) rain in the area
I began my watch with who I think was Billie on the north window-it was so dark out still at 7:30am that I couldn’t tell for sure.
Upon arriving downtown I didn’t see anybody initially but when I stopped on Woodbury Blvd. I suddenly spotted 2 small falcons talon tagging by the south side of Legacy Tower. They disappeared as fast as they appeared-it was probably Dot.ca and Genesee. When they didn’t return I drove to the Broad St. bridge (BSB) where I spotted Beauty on the base of Mercury about 8am.
She was in hunt mode as she took off after some pigeons at 8:16am down toward the river and then reappeared flying above Xerox.
She spent 5-10 minutes looking for prey, floating effortlessly from one side of Xerox to the other. She finally spotted something and went into a stoop toward the river out of view. I stopped on the Court St. bridge where I saw the Beautyful one under the northeast wing of Times Square. I whipped over to the hole just in time to catch her flying off to the northwest.
I drove over to the Frontier Communications which was the general direction Beauty flew. I found her on the northeast cube
I left downtown at that point and headed over to the Medley Centre where Big Frank was nowhere to be seen again. Joyce saw 2 falcons over by the Irondequoit Bay last night so perhaps one of them was her. I ended my watch at Seneca Towers where I saw both Buffalo Billie and Seth. When I first arrived in my spot at East Ridge Rd. and St. Paul St. I spotted Billie up on the roof above the north end windows.
While I was tweeting Billie took off and ended up landing on the northwest corner of the railing. She had her back to me so I decided to go over to Seth Green Dr. where I could see the front of her.
Billie only stayed there a couple more minutes when she stooped straight down out of view. I next spotted her on the southwest corner where she was eating-don’t know if she caught something or if it was cached food.
Next thing I knew Seth was on the roof right behind Billie. I guess she didn’t want to share for she took off and when Seth checked where she had been he only found a couple small pieces of leftovers.
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Seth flew off at 9:47am circled around the building then landed back on the southwest corner on top of a transmitter/antenna.
Seth didn’t stay there for long either as he flew off going southwest and this time he didn’t return.
I said goodbye and ended my watch at 10am smiling after a very active watch this morning! 🙂
Check out the links below to see today’s videos-footage of Beauty flying and hovering
October 14th, 2015 at 9:54 AM
Well, Dot.ca was a kind of juvenile tiercel who could not decide who was the one-and-only mate, so maybe his boy is home for good this winter. Play around with dad, get some caches from both…
There are species in which a child occasionally decides to stay with the parents another season and help raise its siblings in the next year. Falcons are not usually among them, but there were lots of things about falcons that were assumed to be universal (like migration) that have turned out, under closer observation by citizen scientists, not to be the case.
October 14th, 2015 at 11:04 AM
And that would be fine with me if he stays Alison! 🙂
October 14th, 2015 at 8:38 PM
I forgot to mention in the juvenile behavior, that Dot.ca also had a habit of begging for food from his two girlfriends, but especially the older one.