An Evening Falcon Watch (3:45-5pm) 12/7/12 – Falcons Seen: Beauty Pigott & BST
By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
Another quick falcon watch, but tonight I got to see all three Rochester Falcons. That is always a very good thing. 🙂
Texts from Today:
2:05 pm – RfalconcamNow – Shaky – “Beauty on Mercury’s money bag.” – Seen on Camera #1
2:06 pm – RfalconcamNow – Ei – “Beauty on Mercury.” – Seen on Camera #1
2:28 pm – RfalconcamNow – Annette – “Beauty on Mercury’s money bag.” – Seen on Camera #1
3:30 pm – Kris G – “From KrisG: One pefa seen on NE corner of roof at BS-chest not very white so maybe P?”
4:00 pm – Carol P – “DT. B on Mercury.”
4:30 pm – Carol P – “BS. 2 falcons here on NW side.”
4:50 pm – Carol P – “BS. Leaving P&BST? Together on NW side of bldg close to each other. Yes they can see each other.”
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After checking the KP area with no luck finding any falcons, I drove towards downtown Rochester, arriving on the Andrews St Bridge. I like starting here, because it gives me a great 360 degree view of the downtown area. From there, I can see almost all the buildings that Beauty lands on. I knew that Shaky, Ei and Annette had posted that Beauty was on the Mercury statue a little after 2 pm, and she was still there. I parked on the Broad St Bridge and got out of my car. With temps in the 40’s and no wind, it seemed much nicer than the past few nights. Beauty seemed to be content on her money bag, so I decided to head over to the BS location, where Kris G had reported seeing one of the falcons.
Kris had texted (through MAK) that she had seen a falcon on the NE corner of the building. As I pulled down the driveway to the front of the building, I spotted a falcon up on the NW corner of the building extension. I did a loop around the building to see if I could find a 2nd falcon. No luck. Back to where I saw the falcon I spotted on the way in. I sat and watched this falcon trying to ID it. The chest was not bright white, so I believe it was Pigott, although, I was losing light and I couldn’t be 100% sure. She turned around to face west, so I drove around the corner of the building to get a better look. That’s when I saw there was a 2nd falcon on the west extension, NW corner. I am pretty sure this was BST. They were close enough to see each other.
Just before I left BS at 4:50 pm, BS flew to a windowsill on the north side of the building below where we believe P & DC 1st chose as a scrape. There was a little bit of vocalization and then they were quiet. I left Pigottt on the NW corner and BST on the windowsill.
On the way home, I went back through the city to check on Beauty. She was no longer on the Mercury statue. There was something going on at the Blue Cross Arena aka War Memorial. There were reporters and cameras all over the place and the Broad St Bridge was filling up. I drove over to Main St. to get a better look into the OCSR elevator shaft to see if Beauty might be there. It was too dark to tell. No tail stuck out like the last time. IT was time to head home.
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