Good night Beauty! 

A falcon just flew up to TS on the ledge.

Good thing we installed this camera. Otherwise we'd never know the falcon was there.

So is Archer  sitting up above Beauty as we sit watching her labor?  Joyce spotten a falcon flying, and this latest pic from camera shows a falcon sitting above NB?

That was a while ago-that bird took off.  But he may well be up above her.

It's the little building type structure with the orange railing on it below the slanted grey shoot thing at the east end of it. If that makes sense.

Actually, i think it does!

And the grey thing at the top of the slanted chute is the -carol, did you call it the pigeon chute?  or pigeon box?

I think my favorite is Beauty coming in for a landing on OCSR-LOVE the reflection!

It's the little building type structure with the orange railing on it below the slanted grey shoot thing at the east end of it. If that makes sense.

Actually, i think it does!

Although they don't frequent the gorge like M/K and their fledglings did, would you want to put in gorge landmarks-Pride's Rock, Skye's building, Pont de Rennes bridge, observation deck, FST just in case?

All those places are marked on the Landmarks map which was recently updated with pictures and better descriptions of the KP area

Which reminds me...where exactly is the ORB so I can put in a marker?

Although they don't frequent the gorge like M/K and their fledglings did, would you want to put in gorge landmarks-Pride's Rock, Skye's building, Pont de Rennes bridge, observation deck, FST just in case?

All those places are marked on the Landmarks map which was recently updated with pictures and better descriptions of the KP area

Still up there-can't see it on the streaming video-covered by the time stamp

Thanks for checking!  Nothing nefarious then, but it can't be working properly with all that noise.  Hopefully they fix it soon!

[THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS]

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS

Another update below in blue.  

Any other suggestions?
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A    Archer Resident tiercel Rochester, NY since 2009 (hatched 2006 in Port Colborn, Ontario).  Mariah and Kaver's grandson. His father is Freedom (hatched 2002). He was a mate to Mariah for a very brief time in 2009 before pairing with Beauty

anthropomorphizing   attributing human characteristics, motives, and emotions to animals; a favorite watcher activity

B  Beauty Resident falcon Rochester, NY since 2009  (hatched 2007, Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA)  First seen with Zephyr (M/K's offspring) in the winter of 2009. She then fought Mariah for territorial dominance in downtown Rochester in 2009.

BBRR  Braddock Bay Raptor Research  Hawk watch and banding station on the shore of Lake Ontario

BL Bausch & Lomb  Building in downtown Rochester, NY; occasional perch

Cabot-Sirocco   Hatched in 1997 to Victoria & Pounce-Kingsley in Toronto, ON. First mate of Mariah (1998-2002)

CB  Charbay Peregrine falcon seen at Charlotte, NY & Irondequoit Bay

cere Fleshy part of the upper beak containing the nostrils

CMNH   Cleveland Museum of Natural History   Forum where we followed Seneca (Rochester, NY 2008) and her nest with Cheyenne in 2010

CPF     Canadian Peregrine Foundation     Our neighbors to the north who keep watch on many Rochester offspring residing there

ee-chup    a sound of affection.  Heard often with the adults

eyas     newly hatched peregrine falcon

falcon     female peregrine

FC     falcon central     Stairs on Broad St. across from the Blue Cross Arena that go down to Aqueduct St.  Next to the Thomson Reuters building and the empty Philippone building

FCT     Frontier Communications Towers     Favorite perch. This is across from City Hall. A/B seemed to bring their fledglings there.  Calidora (hatched 2010) used to frequent the tower, screaming for food from her parents.  

FF     Falcon Flakes     The dedicated watchers who keep an eye on the peregrines no matter the weather

fledgling    A young peregrine after it makes it's first flight

GVAS     Genesee Valley Audubon Society     Sponsor of Rfalconcam

HSBC     building across from Xerox     A building in downtown Rochester.  Often, A/B areseen there at night.  It is across the street from Xerox. A/B will consistently perch on certain columns of the Xerox building at night.

IB     Irondequoit Bay     Large bay on the shore of Lake Ontario

Jail Tower    Communication tower on the Monroe County Jail building.  A favorite perch.

kakk    if done in a hurried manner, can be an alarm call but regular kakking can also be done for attention

Kaver     Wild hatched. Second mate of Mariah (2002-2008) Known affectionately as QTP2T. An extraordinarily faithful mate.  In 2006 when Mariah was injured he successfully hunted for her and the newly hatched eyases.

KO     Kodak Office   Kodak Tower, the highest building in the complex, was the original nestbox site and birthplace of close to 50 peregrine eyases

KP     Kodak Park     Properly, Eastman Business Park. Ironically, where Mariah had been seen for awhile after she relinquished territory.  It is a few miles down the same road as Kodak Tower.  Lady Pefa is on one of the buildings of that complex

LP     Lady Pefa     Peregrine falcon with a purple midwest USFWS band residing at Kodak Park.

M&K; M/K     Mariah & Kaver     Resident peregrine pair 2002-2008

Mariah     Peregrine Falcon matriarch-- first falcon on Kodak tower (1998).  First mate was Cabot Scirocco (1998-2002), then with Kaver (2002-2008).  She spent most of her time at Kodak tower until the nestbox was moved to Times Square in 2009.

Mercury    Statue across from Times Square Building     across the road from Times Square building.  Favorite spot of A/B.  Seems to be the statue they prefer for mating and eating purposes.

Midtown Plaza     Going, going, almost gone.  An almost nest site for Mariah and Archer, then Archer and Beauty. Watchers witnessed many a coming and going of Falcons at the Midtown Tower, which is the only section of Midtown that will remain in the future.

NB     Nestbox     Manmade box with gravel substrate used to simulate the peregrine's preferrednest site of a gravel ledge on a cliff face

OCSR    Old Changing Scenes Restaurant.  Properly the First Federal Building     place where falcons seem to go but not for mating or nesting.  Mariah  and Kaver (M&K) used to store food in the elevator shaft of that building. This is still used for those purposes by Archer and Beauty.  Fledglings in 2010 also would go there with their parents.

ORB     Orange Rail Building.  A building at Kodak Park where Lady Pefa and a tiecel have been perching.

Orville      A round white stone from the original scrape on Kodak Tower that was often mistaken for an egg.  During the long days of waiting for the eggs to hatch the stone was given the name Orville.  When the nest box was moved, Orville was taken to the new nest box where he is proudly overseeing the newest generations of Rochester Peregrines from the back left corner

PC     Psych Center     about 3-5 miles from Times Square.  We have seen Pefas there through the years (including Zephyr in 2009).  Again this winter, 2010, two have been seen on that building.  It is privately owned so viewing is restricted

PF or PeFa Peregrine Falcon

Powers Building    Another nestbox site after the box was removed from Kodak.  Birds have been seen near there but the nestbox has not been used.

Quest    Hatched Rochester, NY 2008.  Outfitted with a transmitter that is still broadcasting her position as she wanders along the north shore of Lake Ontario.

RFC     Rfalconcam The place that brings all the falcon fans, both on the ground and on the internet, together!

RFW     Rochester Falcon Watchers

RM&T     Rhea Mae & Tiago     Rhea Mae (Rochester, NY 2006) is nesting with Tiago at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto, ON

scrape     Peregrine falcon nest; the depression scraped in the gravel to hold the eggs during incubation

Seneca     Hatched in 2008.  Nested in 2010 with Cheyenne at Brookpark Rd. Bridge near Cleveland, OH.

tiercel     male peregrine

TS    Times Square Building     new site of nestbox, used by Beauty and Archer

USFWS     US Fish and Wildlife Service     Issues the sequential numeric bands used in bird banding.  On peregrine falcons, the band color often indicates the region the bird was banded

wailing     used by eyases/fledglings when begging for food.  Adults will also wail when laying on eggs to indicate change from one adult to another

Wild Wings     Rehabilitation center and sanctuary for injured and unreleasable birds of prey

Beauty by main cam

I have to laugh-5 cameras, and this is the only one you can see them on when they're on the corner

I don't know if Beauty is more agitated, but the noise has been going on for quite a while now.  There was a tweet that Lou was going to investigate, but I haven't seen anything.

I hadn't watched the whole thing when I posted this...at about 4 minutes into the video I believe you can hear the eaglet cheeping in the egg

Decorah Eagles First Egg Pip and Hatch

Video of the first pip to hatch at Decorah!

..I'm hearing on the live stream?  Are they blowing up Midtown or something?