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Scaffolding half down at Kodak Office
Island completely under water
Island flooded
Another pic of flooded island
2 deer at chain link fence below Genesee Brewery
Doe heading towards me
Doe after it passed by me heading towards observation deck
Adult Black-Crowned Night Heron was spotted on this nest.

 :2thumbsup:  Thanks for posting these for me Donna. You're the best!   :handshake:

Always a pleasure! I can't believe the Island.... :o

And I thought my morning was busy!   ;)  Great catches, MAK - love the different view of things with all the water.  It does go down and the new dirt brings new nutrients for the soil.  My morning pictures might get posted later.  Maybe  ;)  Did a complete walk-around of the property and all things considered, we are in very good shape (there was a much water rushing around the north side of the house where there was no construction as there was on the south (pool) side).  Did some cleanup, raking, and more planting.  Need to get some dirt.  Basement is completely dry and there were ponds and rivers outside that door. 

 :wave:  Glad to hear you came out of it in good shape Janet. :thumbsup:

Happy to hear there wasn't too much damage Janet.   :thumbsup:

More pics from MAK this am.

Taken from Broad St. bridge Genesee river rages north towards Main St. bridge.
This is looking south up river towards Court St. bridge.
All rocks under water leaving nowhere for shore birds to fish and hang out
This area usually filled with gulls,ducks and herons.
The High falls (WOW)
The gorge
Another angle of high falls.
Water in this part of gorge usually relatively calm.
There's actually whitecaps down there!
Looking north from pedestrian bridge.
Another area that's usually calm
The island on the gorge side of pedestrian bridge
It looked more flooded than yesterday morning.

Thanks again my friend.  :handshake:  These pics are from this mornings watch.10/3/10

My word, you are getting some rain! I check local websites every day and it seemed it would be bad - but I did not think it would be quite so torrential. Thanks to MAK and Donna for the pix. Those unfortunate deer!

 :umbrella2:

Always great to see a watcher's viewpoint from a different perspective.  It will be interesting to see if the adult Black Crowned Night Heron and juvenile hang around.  Let us know if you spot it with all of this ugly rushing water.

Thanks for the pictures Mak and Donna.
greetings Aafke

Pics from MAK from this am 10-8  The Mighty Genesee!

From Broad St. bridge looking south at Court St. bridge
The raging Genesee!
Flowing unbelievably hard!
Looking at Main st. bridge
From high falls pedestrian bridge. Notice how much more flooded island is since a few days ago
This pic really shows how under water the island in the gorge has gotten!
The high falls raging so hard that when I got back to the truck the mist from them was all over the truck

Beauty is on NE(far right) corner of this building. This pic taken from east side of Rochester looking west. Building is just north of Midtown
Snowman in Washington Square Park downtown Rochester,NY USA 7:00am 10-22-10
Snowman to promote a beverage company. Found these guys on my morning falcon watch

"Walking in a Winter Wonderland"

 :thanx: once again for posting my pics Donna!  :flash:   :thumbsup:

Thanks for the pics, MAK and Donna!  

The date should read 10-22-10 for this mornings watch and pics.  ;D

I added these to your 10-2-10 pics!!

Ok, just didn't want to confuse people. I appreciate you posting them for me.  :handshake: :thanks2:

Court St. Bridge taken from under Broad St. Bridge. Rundell Library on far left

Graffiti in Aqueduct

More Graffiti

  Aqueduct under Broad St. Bridge
This curves around to the library runs under the library over to and past the Dinosaur barbecue joint over at the end of the Court St. Bridge

Rundell Library
Taken from under Broad St. Bridge near Aqueduct

NOTE - Title of topic revised so pictures can be updated periodically from different days. Just add date to subject or in text.

Mak - Thanks for giving us pictures from your perspective. ~Joyce

Thanks Joyce! That date was annoying!  :devil:

Beauty on Times Square-11/12/10

And she can't come to the nest? Oh Beauty.

 :thumbsup:  Donna, thanks for posting my pic of Beauty!  :handshake:   Too bad I don't have a long lens camera huh? Better than nothing I guess.  :gum:

She is a stubborn one.   :laugh:

Beauty on FCT, 2nd arm....see her?

Beauty on right side corner below Rocket.

LOL, I blew it up and still couldn't see her!

  :-[   How sad is this all you long lens camera owners!? The only way it could be worse is if I took pics with my phone camera!! :laugh:   :gum:

Well..hmmm...ok then! At least we can see her in there, it's better than not seeing her at all!  :2thumbsup: (http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e105/CommentCrazyGirl/Smileys%20Action/Hobbies%20Games/20070813-090332-57.gif)

Beauty from this morning having breakfast on Mercury.

Thanks MAK, I can see her!  :clap:

Yay, I'm glad you can see her tiny as she may look! Thanks for posting for me Donna.  :handshake:

Ummm-I think I see her.  :foxbinocs:

  :wave:  Kris she's on the base of Mercury on the far right corner. This is with my camera zoomed as much as it will zoom!  ;D

I thought that little bump was her.  Thanks, MAK!  :thumbsup:

Did ya see that all you long lens camera owners. "A little bump"! Come on break out with the good pics. You're making everyone strain their eyes and break out with the magnifying glass.Your public awaits!!! :gum:

MAK did some digi-nocing   :foxbinocs: this am. Not bad considering it was raining and she took this from inside her truck. Beauty on Mercury. Thanks MAK

Pretty darn good, actually!  Remember when Joyce first started watching and she was using binoculars with a camera built in?

Good job MAK on the Digi-Nocing this am. Here's Beauty eating on the base of Mercury.  :clap:

 :wave:  Thanks for posting these Donna. I'm afraid they're not much clearer than yesterdays. Perhaps a sunny day would help. We may have to wait awhile for that! ;D

Pics from this am: Nov 21, 2010

Beauty. Yay a clear front shot of her. The sun made a big difference. (great pic)

Good job MAK, "I can see clearly now the Sun is out"  :clap:

Thanks again Donna! :handshake:

Beautiful Beauty pictures.

Great pics, MAK!

From this am NOV 22

Beauty eating lite meal on base of Mercury

Beauty eating Gull Nov 21

Thanks MAK!!  :clap:

 :thanks2: Donna  :handshake:

Nov 23, pics by MAK


She likes that Mercury

Ei - I miss those camera-binocs now and then.  I've even thought about getting another pair.  They are still pretty reasonably priced. It was fun to take them places.  They had good optics, and I really liked taking video through them while I was watching at the same time.

Mak - Pretty ingenious.  You do with what you have and all of us enjoy seeing them.  Since I am out of state, your tweets are fun to get every morning too! I don't know how you did it, but try to brace everything as much as you can, and hold your breath when you take the pic.

Joyce

This is a good one!  Love the circle effect.  I remember Carol P used to post some pics like that, but I think her camera had a mind of it's own when it did that.

"try to brace everything as much as you can, and hold your breath when you take the pic."
 :wave:    Thanks for the tips Joyce!    ;)

Actually, this still happens if I have my extender lens on my camrera and pull back the zoom all the way.  Looks like I'm viewing down a tunnel.   :laugh:

I have a couple more tips, if you haven't already figured them out, which may not apply depending on what kind of camera you have.  If you have a camera with a flash, and you can turn the flash off, you should.  Otherwise the camera sets the exposure based on the assumption that the flash will fire, but the flash won't be effective through the scope and the photo will be underexposed (dark).  At least that's been my experience.

Secondly, and this only works if you have a self-timer on your camera and an adapter that secures the camera to the scope.  If you do, you can set the timer to take the picture, and take your hands off the camera entirely.  Since any motion will be multiplied by the scope's high magnification, even the act of depressing the shutter button yourself can cause things to be not as sharp as they will be if you can use a timer or remote shutter control.

Sometimes if it's really windy, and the wind is buffeting the scope, I attach my camera to the scope, set the timer, press the shutter, and then try to lean down on the tripod legs with my hands to try and steady it in the wind while waiting for the camera to take the photo.

I sometimes like the "circle" effect as well, but most digiscope experts recommend zooming your camera until the circle disappears.

I'm not an expert, by any means, but I've been practicing and am gradually learning what works and what doesn't.  With my scope and my camera, I almost need perfect atmospheric conditions to get a good digiscope photo, meaning bright sunlight, a fairly dry day (no humidity in the air, which is a challenge in Kentucky), and a day that's not so hot that I get heat waves (also a challenge in summer in Kentucky).  I just got back from a trip to New Mexico where those conditions were exactly right, and managed to get some nice closeups of Sandhill Cranes, which I'll eventually post once I get them all organized.

Thanks Patti. I'm taking pics through my binoculars and I don't have a tripod. I do take the flash off and I knew the sun would make a big difference. :gum:

Pics from Nov. 24

Christmas tree on OCSR
Beauty on $$ Bag
Beauty on Widow's Walk (Peak)  :harhar:


Nice MAK thanks!

  :wave:  Thank you Donna for posting my pics all the time. What other website can you find someone from another state posting photos from a local watcher?!  :handshake:   Only here on Rfalconcam, that's where!!! :yes:

I don't mind, takes seconds!  :wave:

Just wait until it's possible to send the photos directly to Yarak.

Wow....cool! How does that work?

Pics from Thanksgiving morning 2010

  Christmas lights on trees Thanksgiving Day morning
Main St. Rochester
Main St. at East Ave.
Beauty on $$ bag

 :thanx:  Donna!  :handshake:

It doesn't. I haven't invented it yet.

 :harhar: phooey! But you will!

Pic form Nov 26 AM

A Blurry Beauty on OCSR this Black Friday morning.

Nov 28  Holy Crow!! Pics taken on 11-27

Crows leaving downtown 11-27
Crows roosting in Washington Square Park Most of them had already left!
Crows in park
More crows in Park
Pretty sky over Lake Ontario. Taken from Broad St. Bridge looking north over High Falls Genesee brewery.

Pics from Nov 28:

Beauty on Mercury

"A beautiful site.....
downtown Rochester, Main St. Pretty

 :thumbsup: Thanks for posting Donna!! You're the bomb!   :handshake:

Pics from this am Nov 29

My view from Broad St. bridge Left:Mercury: Center:Crossroads Building Right:OCSR(Old changing scenes restaurant)
FCT(Frontier Communications Tower is between Mercury and Crossroads
Beauty on NW corner of Crossroads building
Pigeons roosting above sign
Pigeons across river from Blue Cross Arena on the Rundell Library
Close shot on Blue Cross Arena
As you can see there are plenty of meals for birds of prey

Pics from Dec 1.

Beauty on base of Mercury 12-1-10 Poor conditions for picture taking this morning

Beauty on HSBC.

Dec 2 pics

Beauty on Mercury
On TS Under wings
The raging Genesee
Roaring Rapids

Wow!  The river's really raging!  I'll have to get a look at High Falls soon.  Thanks for keeping us posted MAK.   :thumbsup:

Dec. 3 Morning pics:

Manhattan Square Park.
Beauty on Mercury
Beauty on Midtown
Beauty plucking her breakfast.
Rip Roaring High Falls.

Dec 4. Pics  Sorry, late in posting. See, I do go out! :harhar:

Beauty on Mercury
Beauty taking off from Mercury. My very first pic of this kind (so exciting for me)  :clap:
Beauty eating cached food on the Times Square building
Pigeons flying over the river between Main and Broad Street bridges.
More pigeons flying over the river between Court and Broad Street bridges. (Is there a falcon on their tails?)

I just love the pictures of Beauty on Mercury she so looks like she belongs there.

Lola the take off shot is my very first one. When I looked and saw that I had it I was ecstatic! People driving by must have thought I was nuts standing in the middle of the parking lot yelling and raising my arms in the air all by my lonesome.  :crazy:

Bird Crazy she acts like she belongs there too! She is the queen of Mercury!!  ;D

No falcon on their tails Donna! I took the pigeon pics while waiting for Beauty to show up yesterday morning right before Joyce showed up to join me.  :gum:
:foxbinocs:

MAK...I love that picture of Beauty taking off from Mercury...it is great.. :2thumbsup:
And she looks like she is part of that statue indeed....She really does belong there!!! She is the Queen of Mercury and Rochester  :clap:

Let's make Beauty the Princess of Rochester, there is only 1 Queen and that is Mariah! (http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/hmanies/Smileys/zerberus.gif)  :2thumbsup:

Yes she can be a Princess with her mating with "Prince" Archer, Her Royal Highness the Queen is Mariah she may have to be in exile but she is still Queen

Joining in the applause for your pix, MAK. Well done! I can just see you out there, whooping it up and stopping traffic with a little Happy Dance! :wave:

Pics from Dec. 5...no Beauty but pretty lights

Main St. on my way to look for Beauty
Liberty Pole at Main St. and East Ave. They lit it up last night after a parade.

Yes I agree too!  Princess Beauty it is and although I wasn't around here during the days of Mariah most definitely she should hold the crown of the Queen!!! 
:winner:  ----->>> IS MARIAH

Yikes!  I didn't mean to start anything. Ok people in defense of myself I said Beauty is the queen of MERCURY! Set me straight ...did Mariah hang out on Mercury like Beauty does? Please don't send out the lynch mob, I didn't mean to offend Mariah or her fans(of which I am one)!  I would never try to take away Mariahs crown!!! :gum:

no harm no foul. I have no problem with Beauty being Queen of Mercury, I just drew a line at Queen of Rochester she can be a Princess though. To my knowledge Mariah never sat on Mercury. At least no one ever said they saw her there.

YIKES !!! That was ME who said Beauty should be the Queen of Mercury & Rochester!  :-[
Let's keep Mariah the QUEEN of Rochester and Beauty is the PRINCESS of Rochester but maybe she can be the DUTCHESS of Mercury :)   :handshake:

 :chrispup:

as I said no harm no foul. I know Mariah isn't coming back to Rochester (I just wish we knew where she is at I hope she found a new territory). Beauty is now our Lady of Mercury. Ruler of the Rochester skies. Long as she gives us babies to watch I'm OK with that. Which is part of the reason I would like a nest box put over on the  KP site so the lady over there doesn't get designs on downtown. I don't think I want to go through any more fights. even second hand watching from the internet.

I hear ya BC.  I too hope there are no more territorial battles.  Although it is a Pefa's nature to do this and I have no doubt it will happen again.  I just hope that there are Watchers that witness it and help if they can.

Every day I wonder where Mariah is.  Hoping she is doing well wherever she is.   and I still don't give up hope that someday we'll see her again.  I have a heart shaped pendant that I wear with her name on it.  Just so I never forget.  :wub:  :heart:

I am so happy that Beauty and Archer have chosen Rochester as their home and that we may have a 2nd Pefa family next year!   Watching over young fledglings is my favorite thing to do.  :clap:

Lady is a good "title" for Beauty and Lady Pefa.   ;)

Dec 6 Pics

Inside lobby of Bausch and Lomb   :clap:
Main St.
Plymouth Ave

A very snowy Morning pics 12-7

390/590 split on the way to Henrietta to take Sue to school this morning
Southbound traffic on 390 backed up for miles this am.
Sidewalk plow on Broad St. bridge this am.
plowing snow off ice skating rink at Manhattan Square park this am.
Beauty on the southeast side of Old Changing Scenes Restaraunt top ibeam this am.

12-8 pics

Beauty under the northeast wing of the Times Square building this morning
12-8-10

12-9 pic from this morning

Beauty on the ibeam of the Old Changing Scenes Restaraunt. Look close she's to the left side of pic.

12-10 pics. 15 days til Christmas, 14 days left to shop.

Beauty on Mercurys outstretched hand with the bag of money in it!
Beauty under the northwest wing of the Times Square building.
This pic is taken from the very spot where Jemison was rescued for the second time back in July.
Beauty under northwest wing of the Times Square building. Taken from Fitzhugh at Broad St.
This is a snowpile right across from the HSBC building. Not bad for our first dump of the season!

I wonder if Beauty could give me some of that money so I can finish my Christmas shopping ???
 :2funny:

 :christree:

12-11 pics

Beautyful
Base of Mercury
Nice scoping MAK

 :wave:  Thanks for posting these for me Donna! I received a spotting scope yesterday for Christmas from a couple friends of mine who live 5 minutes from Donna in New Jersey. I'm so thrilled to get this unbelievable gift. Now I can take even better pics to share with everyone! With lots of practice and better light of course! WOOHOO! :mbanana:

Go get em Roni! Pictures are closer today! Keep practicing.  :clap:

You deserve that scope, MAK! Enjoy it!!! (And... what wonderful friends!)

OK, so now we need to mount a tripod in the bed of your pickup and set you up with a motor drive mount on the scope with video feed to a dashboard cam with a joystick to point the scope. Then add a mobile Internet connection for video streaming.

It will be like that African Safari site on wildearth.tv except in it will be in Rochester.

Can you do an Afrikaner accent?

Way cool idea, Shaky!  But I think her RAHchister accent is just fine, thank you very much!

Ei

Sounds good to me Shaky. I was just telling the watchers today that we need one of those safari trucks(me driving of course) so everyone can ride around together. Wild Kingdom style! :laugh:

I can picture it now!! (http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll35/Mister510/Smileys/safari-rig.gif) (http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb252/Ronnies_Pets/smileys%20emoticons/6suzno1.gif) Ok, maybe not the elephant.

Morning pics from 12-12  12 more days of shopping

Beauty on base of Mercury.



This is the same pic as #1 only auto-corrected the way Joycie showed me in Microsoft Office Picture Manager! Thanks pal!! :)

12-14 pics 10 more days of shopping

OCSR from Broad ST. Bridge.
Susan B. Anthony Bridge.
Main St. near Bullshead.
Broad St bridge
Look at the snow on Mercurys base.
A guy snowblowing at the Convention Center
Plowing over near Washington Square Park

Wow...that is a LOT of snow  :surprise: :scaredblue:
We got just a dusting here but it sure is cold....Brrrrrr   

 :tongue2: 

12-17 morning pics: 8 more days of shopping

Beauty on Mercury 12-17-10
Taken from Broad St. bridge
Beauty on Mercury 12-17-10
Taken from Aqueduct St


Good scoping!

12-18 pics: Only 6 more days of shopping!

Beauty on Mercury

Falcon flying above Xerox
Mystery Falcon flying above Xerox.

 :hello:  Thanks for posting my pics everyday Donna. You're the best! :handshake: :thumbsup:

I wonder who is falcon number two. It's too earlier for Archer.  :confused:



(my off the wall guess is Zephyr come home for Christmas)

That would be nice BC if it were the Z-man! :gum:

12-18 afternoon pics

Nice pic MAK
B on base of Mercury
Ain't she purty? Beauty on base of Mercury.
Cool pic.

Beauty on FCT
Mercury
B and Mercury's $$ bag
Preening
A headless Beauty.

Sorry for using your area MAK!  Here are a few pics I took showing Beauty and the Tiercel that visited her today. - Carol P.

Interesting-probably just passing through...

Thanks to all you Falcon Flakes for keeping watch!

Ei

"Sorry for using your area MAK!"

No worries Carol, it's only my area cuz nobody else was posting pics. Now it's our area. Anyone else want to join us?  ;)  I'm sure the peeps won't mind more pics from the watchers. Looking at falcons is what we're all about whether it be live or on our computer screens. :handshake: ;D

Pics from 12-19. Only 5 more days of shopping





The Beauty-ful one flying right above me. I was so excited I couldn't get the camera lined up with my binocs, so I zoomed the camera and managed to get this pic of her. WOOHOO she is so gorgeous!

Pics from 12-20  Christmas is Saturday!! :scaredblue:

The Beauty has landed

It's not clear and it's not good at all but I got this pic of Beauty taking off from Mercury before she went in a stoop across the river at some pigeons. I was down on Aqueduct St. so I missed most of the stoop behind the buildings. She returned to Mercury empty taloned and I concluded my watch at that point.   :clap: Nice pic MAK!!

Thanks for letting us use the area MAK. :happy:
Here's an album of pics I took on watch Saturday Dec. 18th, with a few pics of 2 falcons early, and finishing with Beauty and the Red-tailed hawk on Time Square.  Hope you enjoy.

http://tinyurl.com/27adal8


Dana

May I reiterate... this is not just my area. I'm very happy you guys are sharing your pics because I like yours way better than mine and I'm sure the peeps feel the same way. After seeing your pics Dana I'm almost afraid to share mine. As usual your pics are awesome. I especially like the stoop pics and Beauty on Mercury squawking with her food in talon. Thank you! :notworthy:

Ok, I'm going to remind people that we have a FalconWatch blog that was set up just for this purpose. Items posted there are automatically distributed to the forum, facebook, twitter, yahoo, email, etc. (Several media outlets follow us on twitter, and our facebook fan list is growing daily.)

When pictures from watches are posted directly to the forum, the redistribution process is circumvented, and then someone has to manually post the pictures to facebook, etc., which introduces its own set of problems that ultimately results in some people not seeing falcon watch pictures.

Rfalconcam's mission statement starts with the words:

"To increase environmental awareness and education by providing high quality still images..."

Let's do our best to fulfill our mission by not taking shortcuts. If there are problems with the FalconWatch blog that need to be addressed, let's discuss them so we can get them fixed.

Shaky,

The forum topic with MAK's pics was originally posted as a single subject with a specific date. I revised the title so she could continue to share her morning watch pics under one topic. MAK admits she is a little techno-challenged, and has a hard time with inserting links, images, etc.  Donna has been helping post her pictures. Rather than having many separate topics for each watch, I thought it would be easier to view and follow MAK's daily pics under one topic.  Carol and Dana just followed suit. 

Personally, I would rather see a thread under Rochester Falcons that says Falcon Watcher Photos where everyone can go to see them under one heading.  I understand the mission and purpose of the FalconWatch blog, but to be honest, it is much easier and faster to post to the forum than using the Dashboard program in FalconWatch.  Plus there is also a comfort zone in posting to the forum.  Sometimes it is intimidating to meet the expectation of "providing high quality still images."  I only wish I could be good as Chad & Chris who post pictures of Seneca & Cheyenne on the Cleveland forum.

Joyce

I know how it started. I was fine with a small topic, but when it expanded and started to become unwieldy, that's when I stepped in.

Regarding the mission statement. It's not the "high quality still images." It's the "To increase environmental awareness and education" part that needs to be stressed. We do that by spreading the word as far as possible. Taking shortcuts like posting to the forum is not going to accomplish that, at least not without a lot of extra effort on the part of volunteers who don't necessarily have the time or skills to do it.

Posting pictures to the forum is fine as long as it doesn't become the primary repository for the images. The forum is not a photo gallery. It's not designed to be one. Using it as such is asking for trouble, and we are guaranteed to run out of storage on our server if a skilled volunteer doesn't step in to remove the files. Using the forum to store pictures is like using a screwdriver to pound nails. That's what hammers are for. Similarly, online photo albums are for storing photos. There are many to choose from including Facebook, KGallery, Picasa, and flickr.

The FalconWatch blog is not difficult to use, and it gives the author many more tools for putting together a story than the forum can. It also indexes the posts by date and category for easy retrieval later. Plus it's cleaner because the comments and off-topic discussion are kept separate from the actual posts -- a big advantage for anyone wanting to review events or just catch up after an absence. And finally, it provides a mechanism for broadly disseminating information and accomplishing our goal of increasing awareness and education. (The dissemination also creates additional copies of the information contained in the posts, essentially giving us free backups, and we all know the importance of backing up our data!)

If there are real problems with the FalconWatch blog, let's create a topic to discuss them. Then we can work on improving it. Also, if there are online watchers who would like to ghost write for watchers on the street, they can use the topic to volunteer their services. Anyone with WordPress experience and extra time on their hands should have no problem using the FalconWatch blog. I would love to see someone condense each day's tweets into a single watch report.

Imagine what could be done with a season's worth of clearly written, easily accessible watch reports. A comprehensive end-of-year report could be written. Throw in the Imprints posts, the charts for egg brooding and feedings, the falcon family tree, and a few other tidbits, and you've got a really nice article worthy of publication.

This is citizen science.

Sorry for the ruckus I've caused. It wasn't my intention to store my pics here. I have alot to learn.  :stupid: Still a rookie.

"MAK admits she is a little techno-challenged"  This is an understatement!

MAK, your boundless enthusiasm and total dedication to the Falcons overrides everything else!  :wave:

I agree with Bobbie.  MAK, your reports and pictures are wonderful!   Your dedication to the falcons and to reporting what you see to rest of us out here is inspiring.  Your pictures are the best!  Congratulations and lucky you for receiving the new scope for Christmas.  I could not do what you do  (techno-challenged me).  Keep on doing what you are doing.  My day begins when I see your reports about Beauty.   :thumbsup:

I'm not thinking ruckus...I'm thinking Shaky trying to get us more streamlined before the REAL watch season gets underway...

Good food for thought.  We'll figure something out.

Ei

No one is saying MAK's morning reports aren't greatly appreciated.  I thank her all the time, since I'm unable to get out much, except for the weekends during the Winter months.  

I think Shaky has a great idea about summarizing the tweets onto a daily Falcon Watch report.  Does anyone want to volunteer to do this?

We are, in fact, citizen scientists. Every one of us.  I've always said that the Rochester Watchers know more about Peregrine behavior in a city than the "experts".

If we all get in the habit of leaving Watch Reports in the appropriate area, outside the Forum, it will become easier each time we do them.  I know I'm also guilty about not posting my reports there as often as I should.  Remember, these posts will flow to all the RFalconcam community, including the forum.

The RFalconcam site has great potential to be the best Peregrine depository of information anywhere.  Let's make this the come-to website for "experts" and "non-experts" to learn all about city Peregrine Falcons.  We have a vast amount of knowledge to share with everyone.

Bookends!