By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Todays starting temperature was 61 (F) 16 (C) and the conditions were sunny with blue skies.

Before I even left this morning cam watcher Campgee reported the first feeding of the day was occurring. When I arrived in the hole (Aqueduct St.) at 5:20am I didn’t see any falcons at first. Around 5:30am I managed to catch Beauty fly off cam 4. I drove up to the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) and spotted a PEFA on the 3rd northwest side. I drove to Troup St. for a closer view and could see that it was the Beautyful one.

She flew off 25 minutes later headed north toward the Times Square Building (TSB).

I took off and thought I saw her fly from the nest box area as I approached from Exchange Blvd. When I got to the BSB I could see her on the heel of  Mercury.

I could see 2 eyases up near the nest box.5 minutes later Beauty flew to the column above the nest box. I drove to the parking lot on the north side of the TSB to watch from the best angle.

At 6:19am Dot.Ca (DC) flew to the north side of the deck by the main cam with food. Beauty flew down and grabbed it from him and started feeding the eyas that was in the front as it slept thru the first feeding this morning as reported by Campgee. Thanks for your assistance! I scooted across the street to the hole and found DC on the top ibeam south corner of OCSR.

At 6:27am Beauty flew to the heel of Mercury with DC remaining on the OCSR south corner.

As I watched from Falcon Watcher Central (FWC) Mr. Housefinch stopped by on top of the light pole by Thomson Reuters and started singing for the Mrs.

I left for the Brighton Site (BS) at this time to try and get there before Pigott left but I had no such luck. I arrived there at 7am to a falconless site. 20 minutes later as I drove down Exchange Blvd. I saw Beauty fly off the jail tower. I stopped at Broad St. and could see DC was still on OCSR.

I went looking on the east side for Beauty but came up empty. Upon returning from the east side I crossed the Court St. bridge stopping to have a look around, when I spotted Beauty flying southeast. A worker from the Blue Cross Arena (BCA) came over to ask if I was watching the falcons. Of course I started telling him about our 3 babies this year and gave him a rfalconcam business card so he could check us out.

Again I checked the east side and returned via the BSB. I went down to the hole to watch DC on OCSR but he took off while I was tweeting. At 7:37am I noticed DC on the 3rd ibeam south corner with prey.

DC flew off with his small package to the deck and flew right back off again with it.

<leaving OCSR      Leaving deck>

I don’t know where he went so I drove up to the BSB where I met up with LarryO followed by young Joe (Viper) and his dad Mike. DC showed up on the top ibeam south corner of OCSR and a few minutes later Beauty flew in to land on the main cam.

While there a couple women from Buffalo asked what we were doing. Larry filled them in and I showed them some of my pics. They were surprised at how big the wing span is on a falcon. I gave them a business card and told them to check us out as they were leaving. Everyone seemed to be settled in so I called it a watch and so did Larry,Joe and Mike. We all smiled from seeing the eyases up on the deck as well as Beauty and DC! 🙂

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