By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

(3:30 – 5:00 pm)

Another quick watch and all three resident Rochester falcons seen.  The weather was gorgeous compared to the last few days.  Only in Rochester do temps in the 40’s feel wonderful, especially when there is sun and blue sky. At least for a short while.

I started at Kodak Office where I found no falcons today.  From there I looked towards downtown and spotted a falcon on the Times Square Bldg (TSB) on the ledge below the north east wing.  Joyce also tweeted that she saw a falcon there.  I never did see Joyce during my watch.

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From the Broad St Bridge, I could see that it was Beauty on the TSB.

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After checking the downtown area for Dot.ca and not finding him, I headed over to the BS location.  Pigott was on a east facing window on the south west extension.  She had her back to me, but she was her usual hyper-alert self.

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I circled the building a few times and could not find Dot.ca.  Time to head back downtown.  As I approached the Times Square Bldg, Beauty was no longer on the north east wing ledge.  I turned right on to Broad St and saw a falcon heading towards Mercury.  Quickly I turned around and parked on Broad St, at Falcon Central (across from the Blue Cross Arena).  Now there was a falcon back up on the north east wing ledge and it looked like Beauty.  My attention was split between watching Beauty and taking pictures of the gorgeous moon over Xerox.  I turned around to see Beauty was still on the TSB and that she had grown a second tail.  Huh!  Yep!  Either Dot.ca had just arrived or had been up  there with Beauty the whole time and I couldn’t see him.  Right after I realized both Beauty and Dot.ca were up there together, he took off, flew over the Blue Cross Arena and headed south east.  I waited to see if he would return and he did not.  There’s a good chance he headed over to the BS location to check on Pigott.

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I did take the lake route home, but as usual, it was too dark to see much of anything.

I’ll leave you with a few pics of the moon over downtown Rochester.  Please be sure to click on any pics you would like to see larger.  Goodnight everyone!

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