By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The temperature as I walked out the door today was 44 (F) 6 (C) with partly cloudy skies and a busy breeze that would get much busier this afternoon. We’re under a high wind alert today

I didn’t find Beauty until nearly 7am this morning as I found her under the northeast wing of the Times Square building (TSB). She was seen on the Mercury money bag (MMB) on cam before that while I was looking for her on the east side. She stooped over the river a minute or so later and ended up on the top ibeam of OCSR near the south corner. Beauty flew off fast to the southwest at 7:17am.  I think she was looking for Dot.Ca (DC).

In my travels to find Beauty and DC I took in what’s left of our fall colors and when I didn’t find them I drove over to Brighton. I found no falcons there today.

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I returned to downtown at 8am finding the Beautyful one once again on the top ibeam southeast side of OCSR. I parked in the hole behind Keybank to observe and had a visit from Larry and his dog Harold. After a quick hello they continued on their walk to Aqueduct Park.

Suddenly Beauty saw something and flew off  at 8:21am. I got a tweet from cam watcher Annette who said a falcon was on the MMB but when I got to a place where I could see, it was gone. It was most likely DC.

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Then Larry tweeted that he saw 2 falcons flying around the Andrews Terrace apartments so I went looking from the Andrews St. bridge. I didn’t find them and when I returned to the hole I spotted DC on OCSR top ibeam near the south corner-the sun was on him making it blinding to look at his white chest.  He took off a minute later while I was looking around for Beauty-I found her on the southeast corner of Widows Walk.

She flew over to the back of the TSB where DC was with food-he took off with it as I was crossing Exchange Blvd. to go to the parking lot next to TSB. Beauty ate a tiny little morsel that DC left behind and then she flew northwest.

Right after she left around 9:05am Shaky sent out a tweet that a bigger falcon chased a smaller falcon off the large FCT dish. At 9:06am Beauty flew up under the northeast wing of TSB and a few minutes later she started whining and looking down at DC who had  food on the back of  the TSB.

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DC was eating especially fast for about 15 minutes and then he spotted Beauty above followed by her landing a couple feet away from him-you can see her wing as she lands in the last pic below if you click it.

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The party was over as Beauty walked aggressively toward him prompting him to grab his prize and fly off leaving a small piece behind.

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Beauty made short work of the tidbit and flew off. I ended my watch at 9:40am smiling from all the antics of our downtown Rochester Peregrine Falcon pair! 🙂

Click on the links below to view more pics and videos from my busy watch

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http://youtu.be/YOcbPaTXmAM
http://youtu.be/xHczhI4vWuU
http://youtu.be/WxET9TolNcI
http://youtu.be/FZ6jMOCoPhU

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