By Rochester Falcon Watcher

Well I didn’t plan on going downtown this morning, but when I got a text from DebbieH saying to text her if I was around at noon…well it motivated me to hop on a bus and visit our fair city. Of course there isn’t much falcon business to see downtown these days since everything is about that fuzzy little eyas in the nest box but there is always something to see. I saw no falcons around tho I knew Beauty or Dot.ca(DC) were in the nest box with baby so I checked the mighty Genesee River from the Broad Street bridge(BSB). On the north side I saw gulls, Canadian geese and a pretty purple weed display on the east shore.

After a look around for a falcon I crossed over to the south side of the BSB where I found lots of gulls everywhere a few ducks and one great Blue Heron that was fishing.

It was starting to heat up on the bridge so I made my way down to some shade by the D&C building to check the back of the Times Square building(TSB)  for a falcon. Under the northwest wing I saw something that could have been a pefa with it’s back to me but I couldn’t be sure. It was about noon so I texted Debbie who works in the Ebenezer Watts building and told her I was outside waiting. She came out and we walked to He’s chinese restaurant where she bought me lunch. We went back to her break room to eat in the air conditioning and after we were done she introduced me to her co-workers and showed me the view she has of the back of the TSB and Widows Walk area. She told me that on her way to work this morning she saw Beauty and DC looking  like bookends with one under the southeast wing and the other under the northeast wing of the TSB.  Thank you very much for lunch Deb! It was back to work for her and back to searching for falcons for me. When I got back to the BSB and turned around to look toward the nest box I spotted a pefa with it’s back to me next to the main cam at the south corner. It then went into the nest box and perched on the front ledge of the nest box facing me and it was then that I knew it was the Beautyful one! I also got a text from Donna confirming it. Thanks D!

Mission accomplished-I saw my friend Debbie and my favorite Peregrine Falcon Beauty. It was time to end my watch and get out of the heat. I’m pretty sure I was smiling the whole way home on the bus! 🙂

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

I arrived downtown around 7:00 pm. At first I couldn’t find any Peregrines, but I knew the eyas was at the nest box. Where else would s/he be? 🙂

It wasn’t long, after I parked my car on the Broad St Bridge, that a falcon flew in from the south and landed on the SE end of the ledge just above the nest box. It was Beauty. I drove closer to the building to get a better look. She was up there preening and stretching and looking around. It was really quiet for a long time. That is until two juvie Ring-billed gulls flew through passing in front of the TSB. They were low, much lower than the nest box and they were screaming at the top of their lungs and chasing each other. Beauty didn’t care for that. They were too close to her baby and they were making way too much noise for her liking.

Off she went, stooping on the two unaware young gulls and she wasn’t quiet about it. She matched their cries with her very loud alarm call. They went between the buildings and I lost sight of them. Beauty returned very quickly to the Times Square Bldg (TSB), landing on the same spot she left. I never saw the young gulls come out from behind the building, but I’m sure they were ok. A big lesson learned. Don’t ever play below a momma Peregrine and her eyas!  When she flew over me, I noticed that she was missing a couple primary feathers from her left wing.

Beauty went back to preening and snoozing, always with one eye open. Defending her chick was her top priority and nothing was going to stop her.

I drove around looking for Dot.ca, but could not find him. Since he did not join Beauty in the defense of the eyas, I do not believe he was anywhere close by. My thought was that he might have been at the BS location visiting Pigott.

Speaking of Pigott, she was seen earlier in the day at the BS location by MAK and Larry O.

It was starting to get dark, and all was quiet at the TSB, so I decided to check on KPT at KP. Just after I arrived at KP, MAK joined me. I saw the fox run across the road into the woods and something larger on the other end of the woods. I really didn’t get a good look and I assumed it was a raccoon, but I can’t be sure.  It didn’t really move like a raccoon and it seemed larger.

MAK and I parked up at the lot we are allowed to watch from. We were unable to see any falcons at KP. I really hoped KPT would come in as we lost light, but we never saw him. But one strange thing did happen before we left.

We both heard this very strange call/cry coming from the woods near our parking lot. I cannot even describe it and we never did get a glimpse of it. It lasted for a few moments and then, silence. We’ll definitely be on the watch for a strange creature in the woods!

So, the Rochester Watchers saw 3 of our 4 falcons yesterday; Beauty, Dot.ca and Pigott. We’ll keep our eyes to the sky and report what we see, and hear.

By Rochester Falcon watcher MAK

Gee it had been 2 weeks since I saw a falcon and I was so hoping to find one when I returned to our fair city after being out of town. I was NOT disappointed as I landed on the Broad St. bridge(BSB) and looked over  at Times Square,the jail tower,Mercury and then I spotted not 1 but 2 pefas on the 2nd ibeam west corner of OCSR! Could this really be Dot.ca(DC) and the Beautyful one together within a couple feet or less from each other? I quickly went down to the hole(Aqueduct St.) to get A closer look. After taking pics and zooming on my LCD screen I could positively ID it was the happy couple.

For one solid hour these once battling pefas perched with each other-a first for me to see! Funny how things have a way of working out if we just wait long enough. Beauty preened for most of that hour while DC kept his head cranked most of the time in the direction of the Times Square building and the nest box where he and Beauty hatched a very cute little eyas. After the hour was up Beauty flew directly to the nest box and DC remained on OCSR keeping an eye on his family.

I stayed a few more minutes and then made my way over to the Brighton site(BS) to look for Pigott. Again I was not disappointed and as a bonus she was on a lower west side roof making for some good shots of her.

For about 15 minutes I watched her head move practically non-stop from side to side and up and down. She was definitely looking for a meal. There were some birds in the trees below her as I could hear them and so could she! At one point I heard a Cardinal and because they are my favorite songbird I sooo hoped she didn’t get it. She flew off right above me to the west and circled right back around to the same roof landing on the corner this time.

Again about 15 minutes later she flew off again this time she swooped back and forth a few times above the trees and then she flew lower and lower to the grass to the right of me only a couple inches above the ground. It was so cool and then Miss Pigott returned to a north facing window ledge on the same lower west side roof.

After 10 minutes passed she took off from the ledge flew around to the back of the building and returned to the same lower roof top. She just could not stir up any birds for catching a meal. I shared space with Miss Pigott for another half hour and then I had to say good bye and run some errands.  In my travels I stopped by KP but the only sighting I had was that of a fox. He crossed the road in front of me and by the time I pulled over to the shoulder and got my trusty camera out he was behind a fence and staring at me. He probably heard Led Zeppelin playing on the radio and stopped to check it out! lol

I had a wonderful watch for my first day back on duty in a while, having seen 3 of  our Rochester Peregrine Falcons. And as always they put a big ole smile on this watchers face! 🙂

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

What an absolutely gorgeous weekend. Seeing all four Rochester Falcons and a visit to Paradise made it extra special.

Saturday (7/7)

I got out mid-morning on Saturday. My first stop, after getting my coffee and an egg mcmuffin, was a visit to Kodak Park where KPT (Kodak Park Tiercel) and maybe, just maybe, a 2^ndPefa is hanging out. A few weeks ago, MAK reported seeing two, just a quick look and not chance for a picture. I and the other Watchers are pretty sure that we are seeing two different falcons, just never at the same time. The problem at this site is that the falcons are far away from where we view them. Unless they come closer, it will be nearly impossible to get ID’s on them. The only thing I do know is that the smaller, sub-adult male has a black over black band. So he is from Canada. We believe the 2^nd Peregrine is a larger adult female.

When I arrived, KPT or the other KP falcon (maybe) was on the lower catwalk of the west smoke stack, hunting off the NW side.  I watched until the falcon landed on the north side of the catwalk where I could no longer see it.

I drove up to the parking lot we view from and called in to Kodak Dispatch, I was told a very large storm cell was looming just west of us. Bundy warned us that this storm would probably be on top of us in about 10 minutes. He wasn’t far off. I put out a tweet to warn anyone that was out and to let the viewers of the Times Square nest box know that rain and thunder and lightening was on its’ way.

I was joined in the parking lot by fellow Watchers Dana, Lisa McK and Kathy O. Lisa left just before the storm hit and Kathy got there near the end. Dana and I watched the huge tower of dark clouds approach. Thunder and lightening, high winds and a wall of water hit. We were both sitting in our cars waiting for it to pass. My car appreciated the heavy rain, way better than a car wash!

When it stopped raining, Dana, Kathy (who had arrived during the storm) and I got out of our cars and watched as the dark clouds headed towards downtown. At times the lightening was quite intense.

A quick look at KP showed that KPT had moved during the storm.  He was now sitting on the railing in front of the red door on the east smoke stack, preening.

Kathy mentioned that she was thinking of visiting MAK at Paradise and asked if Dana and I wanted to join her. Well, who was I to pass up on a trip to Paradise! We made plans to meet around noon. The three of us had a wonderful time. MAK is not exaggerating about this beautiful place. The view is incredible and it is so peaceful there. Thanks so much for the invite MAK. Loved visiting with all the critters, which included two horses, 2 dogs, and 4 kitties. We ended our visit with a trip to the local pizza shop. Yummy!

Sunday (7/8)

Another beautiful day! Temps in the 80’s, blue sky, sunshine. I do love summer.

I arrived at Kodak Park around 10 am. KPT? was on the railing in front of the red door on the east smoke stack. Again I was not certain if this was KPT or the adult female. This one seemed to be larger and much whiter. But, again, I cannot be sure, due to the distance. I wanted a closer look, but by the time I set-up my scope, the falcon was gone. Darn! These falcons can be so sneaky!

Dana joined me and we made plans to head over to the BS location to visit with Pigott. For whatever reason, this location is always oppressively hot. There is no breeze here like there was at the more open locations at KP and downtown. I found Pigott finishing her meal on the north side, west end of the building. She finished her meal and flew over towards the scrape. I texted what happened to Dana and she found her on a windowsill below the scrape. We watched her for awhile as she preened and looked at herself in the window. Pigott was the smart one, finding a nice shady spot, while we sat in the sweltering heat. Now that we knew she was ok, our next stop was downtown to check on Beauty, Dot.ca and the eyas.

The Cornhill Festival was going on, so it was very busy. Most of the bridges were filled with cars, so parking was at a premium. Dana and I parked down on Aqueduct St in a nice shady spot. Dot.ca was at the nest box looking after the eyas, while Beauty was on the green strip on the south side of the Wilder Bldg. She was flat out on her belly, with her wings spread and tail feathers flared. I think this must be something they do to cool down. They do this quite frequently when it’s really warm out.

As I was taking pictures of Beauty, she started to whine. I looked up to see that Dot.ca had joined her on the green strip, just a few feet to her left. They just kind of looked at each other. After a few moments, Dot.ca flew back up to the nest box. He was a little antsy. Moving around and taking off and landing. He flew back over to the Wilder building, passing Beauty and then back to the nest box. Beauty spread her wings and took off, heading NW. Dot.ca took off and landed on the well wall, just to the right of the nest box. He walked around a bit and then ended up back on Camera 4.

After awhile, Beauty returned and flew around the area a bit, landing on Wilder, then the top I-beam of the OCSR, then flew over the river and then FINALLY, she flew up to the nest box and Dot.ca took off. He flew over us heading east.

We waited until our shade disappeared, hoping that he would return with food for the eyas. After our shade was gone, we decided it was time to head home.

I’ve put together my first photo album in Shutterfly.  Now that KGallery is gone, they are still in the process of moving all my pictures to the new site.  They are not there yet.  So here’s my first attempt at a Shutterfly album.  Hope it works!

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Check!, Check!, Check!, Check!, Check! Five Checks! Five Rochester Falcons Found!

Beauty – Check!
Dot.ca – Check!
Baby Eyas – Check!
Pigott – Check!
KPT – Check!

Of course we’ve been seeing Beauty, Dot.ca and the eyas (who by the way is growing like a weed!) on the RFalconcam cameras daily. It’s the two youngsters living on the edge of town, one to the south and one to the north, that are hard to find. I am happy to report that both Pigott, at the BS location, and KPT, the Kodak Park Tiercel, are thriving and staying in their chosen corners. Now, if only these two youngsters would find each other!

This past week, Rochester has been going through a heat wave. Temps have been hovering around 90 degrees with high humidity. Usually by this time, our eyases are much older. They’ve either fledged or are ready to fledge. This year’s eyas is much younger by comparison.

It had been awhile since we had seen Pigott out at the BS location. Many of the Watchers had been looking for her with no luck. I went there and checked out the building on Tuesday (7/3), after work. She was nowhere to be found, so I headed downtown. I found Dot.ca on the kicked back foot of the Mercury statue. He looked like a 2nd wing on the back of the fleet-footed Roman god. I parked my car on the Broad St Bridge and took some pictures. I could see Beauty on the platform in front of the nest box, guarding the young eyas. After a few moments, Dot.ca spread his wings and took off. He passed over me heading south.

I quickly grabbed my binoculars and watched as D.C. met up with a Red-tailed Hawk and a couple Crows that were harassing it. Since D.C. is an equal opportunity territory defender, he started to whack both the RTH and the Crows! He drove all of them down into the tree line and then continued south. Hmmm, where could he be heading? I quickly tweeted out what happened and jumped into my car. It was time to head back to the BS location. I was thinking to myself that was where D.C. was heading.

As I approached the building, I could hear loud whining coming from the scrape area and I could see D.C. on the SE corner of the building. The whining was definitely not coming from D.C. I parked where I could watch the scrape and yep, there she was. Pigott was sitting there, crying her heart out. It was so good to see her after not seeing her for over a week. We all love to know that all of our Rochester Falcons are safe.

After spending some time with Pigott and D.C., I decided to head over to Kodak Park. Could I make it 4 out of 4? I hoped so.

I was starting to lose light when I arrived at KP, but I could see that KPT was sitting in what I believe is his night time roosting spot. He was on the east side of the east smoke stack, on the east side of the lower catwalk. There is a metal arm that juts out just above the catwalk with a wire above it that supports the arm. He likes to sit on the wire where it connects to the stack. Success! All 4 Rochester Falcons seen this week! Some day I will find time to go through my pictures and post an album. 🙂

RED, WHITE & BOOM!

Last night there were a bunch of us in the live streaming video chat room waiting for the fire works to start. I was very curious to see how Beauty would react with such a young eyas in the nest box. It was almost 10 pm, the time the fire works would start. Beauty was on the perch outside the nest box. The eyas was sleeping in the back left corner, next to Orville. At 10 pm, the first boom sounded, a loud BOOM! Beauty jumped, spread her wings and took flight! Would she return?

She did return a few minutes later. As the fire works intensified, Beauty flew back to the nest box and entered it from the right side, facing the eyas. As the loud noises and flashes of bright lights continued, she moved in closer and turned around, until she was totally blocking the eyas from the outside world. She stood like that, on alert, until the fire works ended and well after.

After the noise and light show ended, she remained in position for about 5 minutes, before finally relaxing, very slowly. You could see her muscles relaxing as she finally turned her head to look back towards where the fire works were launched.

She fussed a bit with the eyas, gently touching it and pulling at the white fluff. The baby stirred and woke up briefly, then right back to sleep. Yes, the eyas slept though the whole thing! Finally, she stepped out to the perch and looked around. A few additional booms, brought her right back to the eyas and then finally total silence. That is, except of course, for the mass exodus of people from the downtown area. From the street below, we could hear the honking of horns and people yelling and laughing. These were more familiar sounds to a Peregrine that chose to nest in a city setting.

Happy 4th of July Everyone!

By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Joyce and I met Kathy,Carol,Dana and Lisa at the William Osler Hospital in Toronto,Ontario Canada yesterday for the banding of Chessie and Hurricanes babies. There was 1 male and 1 female-no names yet as they are having a contest to name them.

Lisa got to hold one of them as it got banded with it’s new bling. I always feel honored to attend one of these events with the good folks from the Canadian Peregrine Foundation. We’ve all become good friends through our love for the falcons. I’d like to thank Joyce for taking me to so many events in Canada and thanks to Mark and Marion Nash for allowing us to attend and be part of  their bandings. Truly an honor to know people with such passion for the welfare of Peregrine Falcons.

Onward we went to the Yellow Pages site where Linn and Reuben reside with their 3 boys. They have all fledged successfully and we saw them all hanging out on the building with mom and dad and occasionally flying around.

Reuben   Linn

Last stop before we left Canada was the Don Mills site where our girl Quest and Kendal are raising their brood of 3. They too have  fledged successfully as we were treated to seeing the entire family. Kendal was on the corner of the building to the right of the nesting building preening and basically acting like nothing was going on. On the same ledge near the middle Quest had her hands full feeding her noisy 3 kids. After the meal was done she got outta there and perched further down on the ledge.

We left the family all together on that ledge – Kendal at one end,babies in the middle and Quest on the other side. A picture perfect ending to the day that sent us all home smiling! 🙂

I have provided links for my photo album and several videos below. Just click on them and away you go

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Let me just start by saying I had a great time the last few days with my good friend Donna who came for a visit from New Jersey. She got to see all of our Rochester falcons except for the one that has been seen at KP(Kodak Park) plus got to see falcons in Buffalo at UB(University of Buffalo) and CT(Central Terminal). Plus a bonus sighting at Irondequoit Bay of an Osprey! I have several videos of the Osprey that are on a cell tower in Avon which Joyce and I visited this afternoon and evening but I will not be uploading them all tonight due to time. Joyce and I will be meeting Carol,Kathy,Lisa and Dana in Toronto tomorrow morning for yet another banding. This one of the lovely Chessie and Hurricanes babies at the William Osler site. We will be leaving Rochester in the wee hours so I must get a few hours sleep tonight.

This morning before taking Donna to the train station we stopped by Times Square and saw Dot.Ca on the Wilder building green strip in the bright sunshine looking just as white as he could be.

After taking Donna to the train station I went to KP where I found a falcon on the floor in front of the red door on the east stack.

I checked in with security and settled in for a while watching a big flock of starlings that kept getting closer to the plant and the Peregrine. I prepared myself for the main event which I thought might be a stoop but no, something even more extraordinary happened…I saw 2 falcons! The red door falcon met another one on the north side of the plant where they both disappeared behind the blue building never resurfacing. It all went down within seconds so I got no pics and couldn’t even say for sure if there was a size difference between the 2 of them. One was behind the other and hadn’t quite caught up with the other before I lost them. So it seems we are getting to be a popular place for Peregrine Falcons here in Rochester. I just hope they can all get along with each other in such close proximity.

I never found them again so I left setting my sights for BS ( Brighton) and the adorable Miss Pigott. I was not graced by her on this trip and so I went downtown to try my luck there. At first I saw nothing but eventually I spotted a falcon fly out from the nest box area over the river and then to a column to the south(left) of the nest box.

I left at this point for I had to return the vehicle I borrowed for  which to transport Donna and I around this past weekend. It was nice while it lasted!

Next stop was Avon,NY with Joyce to check on the Osprey nest there. We had 1 in the nest and 1 on a post that was part of the cell tower in which they built their nest. Joyce also saw at least 1 juvie briefly in the nest.

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We returned to Rochester and visited BS where Jeanne joined  us to see Pigott come flying in with DC right behind her landing on a northeast rooftop where he had a small bit of dinner for her. She whined,grabbed it and away she went with it to a west side corner to eat. When done she flew to the south side vent on the back of the building to perch while DC remained on his northeast corner in the front of the building.

It was just about dark out when we called it a watch and left for home. It’s been lots of fun the last week with Donna and our other watcher friends with plenty of smiling going on! 🙂

Click on the links below to see photo albums and videos from the past few days. Enjoy!

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Hi all! Donna arrived last night just before 7 and after I picked her up from the train station we headed straight to the Broad St. bridge. Joyce and Brian were there Beauty was in the nest box and we didn’t see Dot.Ca anywhere so after a bit we all decided to go to BS so Donna could meet Miss Pigott. As we were getting ready to turn onto Exchange St. Donna spotted DC on the heel of Mercury so we went down to the hole(Aqueduct St.) so she could meet him.

We saw CarolP briefly before we went to BS to join Joyce and Brian who had found Pigott there.

She did some flying for us and we stayed til dark. A successful first watch for Donna and smiles all around! 🙂

By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Just a quick report of a short watch this morning. As I walked up Exchange from Main street after getting off the bus I looked up at the Times Square building just in time to see the Beautyful one fly from the nest box. I lost sight of her behind the Phillipone building as she flew to the southeast. Donna and Campgee let me know that Dot.Ca had switched with her in the nest box. I started to walk up the Broad Street bridge and found DC on the heel of Mercury.

As I walked further onto the bridge he went down to the base of Mercury and I almost didn’t see him there. DC took off soon after flying southeast until I could no longer see him with the naked eye.

Larry stopped by for a couple minutes and 2 Great Blue Herons came flying in from the north. 1 landed in the river and the other on the south end rooftop of the Blue Cross Arena.

After a while it flew to the north end of the roof landing above the sign.

Everything was quiet so I decided to beat feet out of downtown before it got too hot. A short but sweet watch that left me smiling! 🙂

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was a beautiful, sunny day – perfect for watching falcons! Joyce picked up Brian and I for a trip to Niagara Falls to check on the falcon family residing there in the gorge and to scope out the tight rope going across that Nic Wallenda will be walking on Friday night.

There were all kinds of  TV and camera crews set up along the walkway area on the American side of the falls. I believe the set up for this tight rope act is far enough away that it won’t disturb the juvenile falcons and hopefully won’t cause a stir with the adults either. That’s just my opinion,we’ll see. While we were there we could see the young white falcons in their nest box all sprawled out taking a snooze. Mom brought in a small morsel to share before flying out and landing on a window north of the scrape. Both mom and dad were seen flying in the gorge.

We left for Buffalo to check on the juvies at the University of Buffalo(UB), the Statler site,Central Terminal(CT) and the grain elevators near the water. Our first stop was the south Grand Island bridge where we had no luck finding a falcon. Next was the Statler nest site where we could see the white of the juvies there in the scrape but no adult sightings.

We then proceeded to the grain elevators along the shoreline there in Buffalo. I have been there many times without seeing anything but today would change that record for not only did we see 1 but 2 falcons and they flew in tandem to escort a red-tailed hawk out of the area. Brian spotted the first one on the Holcim building and after we lost them chasing the RTH Joyce found one on another grain elevator for which I don’t know the name.

We left this site and went to CT for a quick look as the sun was going down and we still had to go to UB for a fledge watch! One adult falcon who we believe was Gleig the female at CT now since Stella and Stash were ousted came flying in and landed on one of the perches by the scrape.

It’s impossible to see into the scrape at this site so we couldn’t see any babies. Having only stayed a short time we departed for UB and our fledge watch. Upon approaching the campus we spotted 2 juvies on the water tower near the university.

We watched them do some typical juvie flying  that entertained us very much. After a while it was time to find the other 2 kids and so we drove over to MacKays tower where the nest box is and found Andromeda on the corner of Clark Hall.

While watching her Yankee, the resident male was seen on the tower on a ledge near the scrape. After a while he flew out to the water tower and escorted the 2 boys back home for the night. Not sure where Athena, the transmitter girl went off to but when we left both BB,the adult female and Yankee were on the south side of MacKays tower with Andromeda still on that corner of Clark Hall and the boys were on top of MacKays somewhere out of view.

And so another falcon watch in the books leaving the 3 of us with a smile on our faces for the great fun we had with the Buffalo and Niagara Falls’ falcons. 🙂

Click on the links below for additional pics from the day and a couple short videos of sweet Andromeda

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