By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

This mornings weather conditions were overcast, 65 (F) 18 (C) and very soupy as in humid! It rained on and off with light to moderate downpours.

Making it to the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) by 5:20am-I had a look around and could not see Dot.Ca (DC) anywhere so I headed over to our Brighton location (BS) to see if he was there but most importantly to check on Pigott who has sustained tail and wing feather damage and loss from some unknown incident. I found our pretty PEFA on the window below the roof top tree on the east side of the building (there’s also a tree that grows on the west side roof above the cubby).

Pigott started to whine a minute after I got there and then DC came flying thru past her and around to the back (south side) of the building. She took off as well and landed on the southeast corner of the southwest extension.

You can see the damage to her feathers on the left wing in that last pic. I started to tweet out the action when DC came barreling in from the south whining as well and tried to mount her. She slipped right out from under him, flew out to the south and right back to the same spot while DC flew to the opposite corner.

<DC  Pigott>

Pigott continued to whine and looked like she was mantling for some reason.  DC started preening before taking off to the southeast at which point Pigott stopped whining, turned around and started eating something.

<DC> Pigott>

At 6:05am I received word from cam watcher Campgee that Beauty had left the nest box. Thanks Camp! Pigott finished eating,turned around facing east,whined and settled on her corner, so I left for downtown.

Camp tweeted that Beauty had returned to the nest box with a big breakfast for the eyases around 6:20am. Then Donna followed by Ei reported that DC had been on the main cam when Beauty came in with the food. Thank you ladies-your help is truly appreciated! When I arrived on the BSB I didn’t see DC anywhere in the area so I drove the big circle around downtown and as I made my way back to the BSB I spotted Beauty on the column above the nest box at 6:45am. I drove down to the hole next to He’s Chinese to hang out with the Beautyful one as she was facing northwest.

Beauty did some preening and just plain perched for the next half hour before flying down to the deck and into the nest box. I had another look around downtown before driving back to BS to look for DC. I found him on the window under the east side roof top tree as it started to rain pretty hard.

I continued on past the east side extension and found Miss Pigott on the northeast extension 2 windows down.

I must note that when I saw Pigott fly this morning she seemed ok and tho there’s no way of knowing if what she was eating was brought by DC or caught by her the fact is she did eat. So that being said I ended my watch at 8:30am with a smile! 🙂

I have provided 2 links below for videos from our Rochester Peregrine Falcon females for your viewing pleasure

http://youtu.be/tuDoIWghi9k
http://youtu.be/1gPPRLMvNec

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