By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The day started out mostly cloudy but the sun did shine off and on at first, then overcast skies prevailed. The starting temperature was 34 (F) 1 (C)

I came across Beauty on the top ibeam of OCSR near the south corner around 6:45am from the Broad St. bridge. I drove down to Graves St. for a closer look.

Less than 10 minutes later Beauty flew to the Times Square building and landed under the northeast wing, she flew out over the river and returned to the same spot. I believe she was looking for Dot.Ca (DC).  I was parked in the hole watching her preen a little but mostly she was looking over her territory.

I left the Beautyful one to check the Brighton site and see if DC might be there with Pigott. I was half right-Pigott flew in from the east and landed on the southeast corner of the southeast extension as I arrived at 8am, but no DC. She walked over to the corner above the roof top tree a couple minutes later and was watching a crow telling it a thing or two.

After she convinced the crow to leave by jabbering at it Miss Pigott flew to the front of the building on the northeast corner of the northeast extension. She mostly preened for the next half hour as I left around 8:45am.

As I made my way down Exchange Blvd. I spotted a falcon fly off Times Square headed north so I went straight down State St. to City Hall where I found Beauty on the northeast cube of the Frontier Communications Tower.

It was nearly 9am and I hadn’t seen DC yet so I was starting to think he blew out of town with that wind yesterday on migration. Beauty left after a couple minutes  and I went to the Andrews St. bridge to have a look around. I could see a falcon on the northeast corner of the Kodak Office launchpad. When I got over there my thoughts of DC having left on migration were put to rest-it was DC.

He turned his back to me so I went down to Mill St. to watch and from there I spotted Beauty above him on the cupola.

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After a few minutes DC flew southeast but Beauty stayed a couple minutes longer before she flew off over the river and then headed south out of view.

It was a dreary watch as far as the weather goes but I still ended my watch with a smile at 9:40am after seeing all 3 resident Rochester Peregrine Falcons! 🙂

Click on the links below to watch 3 videos from this mornings watch

http://youtu.be/R1CWpcPIEaE
http://youtu.be/_Q9U_-omMaY
http://youtu.be/i2XpdbWIEBU

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