A Saturday Falcon Watch (All Day) – 12/1/12 – Falcons Seen Today: Beauty and BST
By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
Hooray! The weekend has arrived and lots of Watchers were out and about honing their Falcon Watching skills. 🙂
Watchers: Joyce, Dana, Kathy O, Brian H, Larry O and Carol P.
Today’s reported sightings: (BS = BS location; DT = Downtown; KP – KP location)
8:00 am – Joyce – “BS – Good Morning! Nothing like a little snow for a brisk AM watch. One falcon on west side extension on windows 2 floors down in corner.”
8:10 am – Joyce – “BS – This is definitely not Pigott. Very white auricular patch behind mustache and is smaller in size. Looks like BST. Can’t find 2nd falcon.”
9:10 am – Joyce – “DT – found B on west side top I-beam of OCSR. She took off and just landed on Mercury a few minutes ago.”
9:40 am – Joyce – “DT on BSB: B flew off over river landed back on base of mercury then off again over river and landed on the north corner of Crossroads.”
9:41 am – Joyce – “DT – Beauty is eating. She must have caught something when she went around Crossroads over State St and up to corner. Caught nothing over river.”
9:50 am – Joyce – “DT – B is quicker than my eye. Gray silhouetted pics have B with something in talons. She did catch something over river.”
10:50 am – Carol P – “KP – Checked the best I could at KP. No falcons seen.”
1:00 pm – Dana – “DT – DT falcon rpt- B is on nw rail of Widows Walk.”
1:30 pm – Dana – “DT falcon rpt- B took off heading east.”
1:40 pm – Carol P – “DT. B flew from WW to back of Hyatt. Dana Kathy Joyce Brian and I on watch.”
2:50 pm – Carol P – “DT. Found Beauty eating on the north end of the Cross Rds bldg.”
3:00 pm – Larry O – “BS – No Falcons found.”
3:55 pm – Shaky on RFalconcam Now: “Beauty is on Mercury’s money bag since 15:16.”
So, after multiple checks throughout the day at the BS location, no falcons were seen there after Joyce spotted BST this morning. Beauty was seen downtown on territory. We know by her behavior over the past few years, that she does not migrate during the Winter months.
Beauty was seen on the OCSR, the Mercury statue, the Cross Rds Bldg and the Widows Walk.
Here are some pictures from my Watch.
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December 2nd, 2012 at 11:26 AM
about the tree obviously one that was pruned to severely and developed to many water sprouts. Looks like an apple or crab apple (maybe) could tell better if there was a closeup of the leaves.
Thanks folks for keeping and eye out for our falcons. Glad Beauty stays home. 🙂
December 2nd, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Thanks Carol for the report and the great pics of Beauty!
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:41 PM
Thanks bc and Ginny. I’ll try to get a close up pic of the leaves. Was just curious. It just looked so strange with all the branches growing up like that.