Late Wednesday Afternoon Falcon Watch – 3/27/13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
My falcon watch was very short today. Just a little over an hour.
At the same time I arrived on the Broad St at 3:40 pm, both Beauty and Dot.ca flew up to the Times Square Bldg. Beauty flew directly into the nest box and Dot.ca landed on the SE Wing Ledge at the top of the building. Dark clouds had moved in and it was raining and hailing on and off.
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During the time I was there, they took off once, heading NW and then both returned to the TSB. Beauty to the nest box and Dot.ca to the NE wing ledge this time. Beauty was eating on the platform in front of the nest box. It was reported this afternoon that Dot.ca brought her a food gift and that they did a little bit of bowing to each other at the nest box. Both bonding behaviors.
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I wasn’t able to get out to the BS location, but my fellow Falcon Watcher Kathy O stopped there on her way home after work and found Pigott at 6:20 pm on the east side of the building on the tree ledge. So all three Rochester Falcons were seen this evening safe and sound.
On my way home, while I was waiting at the light at the intersection of Broad St and Exchange, I took this picture, looking up at the top of the Times Square Bldg.
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Have a nice evening everyone! Goodnight!
March 27th, 2013 at 10:51 PM
So, some bonding, bowing, food gifts…finally. Lots of mating. These two do have it backwards, but when can we expect eggs? And then hatches? Am I being too ….how do I say this? “dumb” in asking this question right now? It has to be earlier than last year’s hatch of Orion. I wish we knew something about him….