By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

I got a text from CarolP at 6:00am stating that the banding of our little eyas would be today between 10:30am and noon. I sprang out of bed and thought, alrighty then I  better check the bus schedule and plan accordingly! Took the 9:34 and arrived downtown just before 10:00am. Got Carols’ tweet that Beauty and Dot.Ca(DC) were on the OCSR building so I remained on Main St. instead of heading to the Broad St. bridge(BSB) like I usually do.

Soon after Beauty flew over to the nest box area and so I made my way up Exchange St. and landed in front of the Philipone building directly across from the entrance to the Times Square building. I figured when I saw the banding crew go into the building I’d move to the BSB where I could see the nest box area better for the activities. Joyce joined me a few minutes after I got there and then Jeanne showed up also. Somehow Carol snuck into Times Square without being seen for she was to be present for the banding. At 11:00am June Summers and a young man entered the building and so we walked over next to the Blue Cross Arena for a better angle to view the nest box and got ready for the main event. Brian had joined the entourage at this point.  We couldn’t see the side where they would take the eyas from the nest box but we knew when it was happening because Beauty flew out the nest box loudly and DC shot off the OCSR building. We had good seats for viewing Beauty and DC flying and vocalizing as their baby was removed from it’s home. DebbieH arrived around this time to watch the aerial display.

Beauty was pretty much non-stop circling the Times Square area kakking most of the time as well. DC joined her at the start but backed off a couple times landing on the money bag hand of Mercury and the OCSR building a couple times. This is normal for the males usually stay back to defend and watch over the territory while the female protects the nest box more so. There was some swooping by both adults at the brooms that were near the nest box in the well but nothing too terribly close. Of course that’s easy for me to say since I wasn’t at the end of one of those brooms! lol Jeanne had an appointment so she had to leave. Beauty also landed on the west corner top ibeam of OCSR to take a breather toward the end with DC at the other end of the ibeam.

Bill Nopper came by followed by Patsy to check things out. It was pretty quick lasting less than half an hour. You could tell the little guy had been put back because the vocalizing toned down. Then a tweet came stating it’s a BOY! Carol came over for a few minutes before she had to leave and return to work. I waited until Beauty went to the nest box to check on her little tiercel before I headed to the bus stop to come home. It seemed to go smoothly and hopefully he will fledge in a few short weeks without incident as well. We can all smile now knowing that our little one has an identity and will soon have a name as well! 🙂

Below are the links for a few more pics and a couple videos Enjoy!

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWrCHA

http://youtu.be/53HRersFT9k

http://youtu.be/VTtKjQBkvqk

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