By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

I arrived downtown at my usual little before 4 pm time.  I parked on the Broad St Bridge (BSB) and after a quick look around the area, I found both Beauty and Dot.ca on the top IBeam, south side, OCSR.  Beauty was at the south corner preening and Dot.ca was hard at work, prepping a meal for the three eyases in the nest box.

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At 4:05 pm, they both took off from the OCSR.  Dot.ca had the meal he just prepared and Beauty had nothing.  They raced towards the Times Square Bldg (TSB), neck and neck!  Both flew up to the TSB a few feet apart, then screeched to a halt and veered to the right, where I could not see them.  I waited to see if they would come out the other side the TR Bldg, but they did not.  Less that a minute later, I saw a falcon fly up to the nest box platform and then disappear inside the nest box.  Many thanks to Donna from the Rfalconcam who informed me that Beauty was inside the nest box feeding them.  Well, that answered that question.  Beauty must have grabbed the meal from Dot.ca and then fed the eyases herself.

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Soon after being outmaneuvered by Beauty, Dot.cat returned to the OCSR, this time settling on the south corner south side top IBeam.  It wasn’t long before Beauty finished feeding the eyases and then went up to the top of Cam 4.  She then flew off the camera and headed east, over my head and then back to the TSB, landing below the SE wing.  She did this a couple times before she finally settled.  Looked like she was in hunt mode.

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Since all was quiet and peaceful downtown, it was time to visit with Pigott at the BS location to see how she was doing.  I arrived at about 4:45 pm and found her on the east side of the building, two windows below the tree ledge.  She remained there until 7:20 pm, when I left.

For the approximately 2 1/2 hrs I was there, she did all the normal things Peregrines did when they weren’t hunting or just flying around.  Pigott preened and stretched and slept and even pooped 3 times while I was there.  She just seemed to be relaxing on what was an very overcast evening with a little bit of sprinkles now and then.  She was actively tracking the movement of every creature that passed through her airspace, including starlings, sparrows, crows, gulls, and even a Great Blue Heron, which she watched with keen interest.  There were a few times I thought she was going to take off, especially when the crows got a bit too close and were vocalizing a little too loudly.

But, she remained on this windowsill for the entire time I was there.

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Since I was starting to lose light and Pigott seemed to be content where she was, I decided to head home at 7:20 pm.  All was quiet and peaceful at the BS location.

On my way home, I stopped on the BSB and found Beauty up on Pan Cam (Cam #1) at the nest box.  She was sitting there keeping guard over the eyases.  I looked everywhere for Dot.ca but couldn’t find him.

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It was time to head home after a very long day.  I was very happy to have seen all three Rochester Falcons this evening, plus the 3 little eyases in the nest box.  Each day this week promises to get better weather wise.  Remember to keep your eyes to the sky!  You never know what you’re going to see.  Goodnight Everyone!

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