I posted this last week...

I was puzzling over the article, not knowing much Rochester history.  So I did some digging and I found this old map of Rochester on an Erie Canal history site.  Looking at the path of the canal right through the middle of downtown it now makes sense-Broad St. was constructed over the Erie Canal-the canal even crossed the Genesee right where the Broad St. bridge is currently.  I added the pink arrows along the path of the canal-the far left one is where I believe the demolition is starting.

The red star is where the Times Square building is now-corner of Exchange & Broad.  One other interesting note-a lot of the streets have new names...the lower end of State St. was Carrol St. at the time.

In fact, the aqueduct that carried the Erie Canal was filled in to create Broad Street (IIRC).

Great pic

This has the potential to be one of the best pics of the year.  Love it!

+1.  The composition is perfect.  Depth of field could be a little deeper but overall a great image.

Yesterday we had a smaller watcher contingent, despite the arrival of a second egg. They seemed to be congregating closer to Exchange Street rather than over the river, and a TV camera appeared to mark the interview of Lord G (though I left my binoculars at home, so I couldn't read his leg bands and make a positive ID).

We caught a glimpse of you too, through your open office window...

Wham13, our local tv station, had a short clip about Beauty and Archer today.  Nice interview with Jim P.  But, they showed times square building and had it captioned as Kodak.  Oy!

And that was after I specifically told the interviewer that A & B were not the Kodak falcons, then went on to explain what had transpired since the box was removed from Kodak.  Also we sent a press release to the media following the first egg with similar info.  But as Janet pointed out, rarely does the press get the story straight.

I just thought it was a terrible way to end the article. Bad editing I guess.

Usually when you see an abrupt ending to a newspaper article it's been cut short by a section editor.  Journalism 101: Put the most important information at the top of the article so you don't lose too much if the editors have to cut your story short.

The general consensus is that Beauty is slightly larger than Mariah.  Archer appears to me to be about as big as Kaver was.

@Dot in PA: The third intruding falcon has not been seen since Thursday afternoon.  It's likely this bird was passing through and thought it might try to seize Archer and Beauty's territory, but finding it well defended, moved on.

Before everyone gets all juiced up over June Summers's  comments in the interview with the D&C (read it HERE), let's all take a deep breath.  

I wouldn't read too much into her comments.  She's just offering one possible explanation for Mariah's absence.  It would have been nice to hear others, but I don't think she was intending to offer a final verdict.  Indeed, without proof (finding her leg bands, for example), no one can say what has happened to her (which is exactly what June said to lead off her quote).

Keep in mind that the newspaper may have only used part of her statement.  Often a whole quote gets shortened by an editor because of space considerations on the page.

So let's not get too worked up over a short article in the paper.

http://falconcam.travelers.com/

We may have babies here again too!! 

The problem with them is they "NEVER update their site" I have to email them every year to find out what's going on and to please update their page. 

Not everybody has a first rate staff like we do here at RFC 

Rachel Barnhart, Channel 13's crack investigative reporter, posted a link on her Facebook page.  Turns out she's a big fan.

We sent press releases to all the local media this morning so maybe we'll see a few mentions over the weekend.

I've been getting this a lot today also. 10 or more frames in a row. Main cam mostly.

We're having some intermittent problems communicating with the camera.  Kenn's channeling his inner Bloodhound and he's tracking it down...

Hmmm, what's with the Talon?  ???

The camera probably caught her in mid-scratch.

It's interesting how different in color the egg appears in camera #2 and camera #3 (at 7:34 a.m.). Just shows that sometimes discussions about egg color are based more on a trick of the light than on reality.

DianaR.

Cameras 2 & 3 are both the same model, but camera 3 doesn't function as well as Camera 2.  It's pictures are usually desaturated or poorly white-balanced.

Both Cams 2 & 3 are equipped with an array of Infrared LEDs which provide nighttime illumination.

Since Brian mentioned that A&B have been mating on the Mercury statue, I emailed Lonsberry's show and sent him this picture, which is now posted on the station's website:

Just heard Brian H call into the Bob Lonsberry radio show to update him and everyone within range of WHAM's 50kW transmitter about Beauty, Archer and the new egg.  Great work Brian!

Archer's in the nest box with the egg.