By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The starting temperature this morning was 57 (F) 14 (C) with calm and clear conditions.

When I arrived in the hole at 5:20am  there was no sign of Dot.Ca (DC) so I drove to our Brighton site (BS). As I pulled in the driveway I saw a falcon on the front of the building. It was DC on the northwest corner of the northwest extension. I drove around the rest of the building and found Pigott on the southeast corner of the southeast extension. She was whining a little bit.

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I drove back around to the front of the building just in time to see DC fly off to the northwest in the direction of downtown. I went back to the east side to watch Miss Pigott. About 10 minutes later cam watcher Campgee reported that DC brought food and Beauty took it to feed their eyases. Thank you Camp! Pigott preened for a few minutes and then she did some walking.

She walked to the northeast corner of the southeast extension stopping above the tree that grows on the roof there.

In the next 40 minutes Pigott lost her balance and saved it hanging on with her talons, cranked her head way back to watch a very loud gull ,pooped and preened a bit.

Suddenly she started to whine at 6:40am,spread her wings and flew off  to the southeast in a big hurry, flying out of my view quickly.

I stayed in the east side parking lot for 10 minutes and then I drove out to the back service road to watch from there where I could see the entire back half of the complex. After 20 minutes I decided to check the north (front)  side of the building and as I came back around to the south (back) side again I spotted something white to the back of the south side vent. A quick pic revealed a PEFA but as I checked it out on my cameras little LCD screen it didn’t look like Pigott or DC. And while I was checking it out the bird left. Check it out and see what you think.

When it didn’t come back I returned to downtown arriving just before the 8 o’clock hour. Beauty was on the main cam and DC was nowhere in sight.

I first parked in front of the Blue Cross Arena (BCA) and then went to the hole next to He’s Chinese to share space with the Beautyful one. RTS buses started turning off Broad St. onto Exchange Blvd. so I knew Main St. was closed for some reason. I drove up on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) and found the crews removing logs from below the Main St. bridge in the river where they were jammed from the winter.

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10 minutes later Beauty was gone from the main cam and I received word from cam watcher Donna that Beauty was feeding the eyases scraps in the nest box. Thanks D! Beauty came to the front of the nest box where I could see her.

I thought I better go check BS again to see if DC was there but he wasn’t and neither was Pigott so back downtown I went. As I turned the corner from Exchange to Broad St. at around 9am I saw Beauty fly off the base of Mercury and go to the nest box. Beauty went back to the base of Mercury a minute later and then Donna let me know DC was in the nest box.

I was now standing by the stairs at Falcon Watcher Central when Beauty flew off Mercury over the BCA and circled back behind the Thomson Reuters building on the river side where I lost site of her.

I drove to the Andrews St. Bridge to have a look around for Beauty and could see a PEFA on the base of Mercury. It looked like it was picking at food.

I drove off and when I reached the BSB the falcon was gone and a couple minutes later at 9:30am LarryO pulled up behind me with his dog Harold. 5 minutes later as we watched the log jam activity I spotted DC on the 2nd ibeam southwest side of OCSR as CarolP was now parking in front of my car.

We were expecting Carol Cloutier and her partner Lorraine from Florida to meet us at 10am. They did arrive and CarolC was thrilled to be here and see both DC and Beauty who had moved out to the front ledge of the nest box where she could be seen. About 10:20am DC flew to the base of Mercury as Shaky joined us, then DC flew to the main cam and Beauty exited the nest box and went to the south corner 2nd ibeam of OCSR.

KathyO and Dana came by to meet and greet CarolC at this time as well. Beauty left OCSR when none of us were watching at some point around 10:45am. We took pictures with CarolC and chit chatted a bit then at 11am I said my good byes and called it a watch.

There were plenty of smiles on the BSB this morning and it was very nice meeting Carol and Lorraine! 🙂

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