By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

9:30 am – 4:00 pm.

I do love falcon watching on the weekends and the warmer weather made it very enjoyable.  It was warmer today than it was yesterday, with temps in the 60’s (F).  But where it was all sunshine and blue sky yesterday, today was mostly cloudy with rain on and off.  But, I’m not complaining.  It was a perfect weekend for getting out to watch the Rochester Falcons.

During my Watch, I was joined by fellow Watchers Dana, Joyce and Lou.

After checking the lake locations and not finding any falcons, Dana and I decided to head over to Irondequoit Bay for a quick look.  We found two adult Bald Eagles in a tree on the east side of the Bay.  Oh, and we did see a flyover by a juvie Bald Eagle at Charlotte, so that made three eagles seen today!  Our next stop was the BS location.  Pigott wasn’t home, but there were a whole bunch of turkeys on the south side of the building.  Onward to downtown Rochester.  Dana and I found Beauty on the Frontier Communication Tower on the north east box.

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I went looking for Dot.ca and found him on the north west corner of Kodak Office.  He was on an antenna just above the playpen netting.  DC was in hunt mode, stooping over the lower buildings on the north side of the Kodak Tower.  He returned, empty taloned, to the north east corner of the launchpad.

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He didn’t stay there long.  He took off heading north and I followed the best I could.  The same time I found him, Donna, a Falconcam Watcher, tweeted out that Dot.ca had joined Beauty on the north east box on the Frontier Communication Tower.

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Dana had to leave, so I stayed to watch Beauty and Dot.ca until first Beauty and then Dot.ca took off heading south towards downtown.  I looked for them, but could not find them.  Since I hadn’t seen Pigott, I headed back over to the BS location and found her on the north west corner of the north west extension.

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Pigott took off and flew to the south side of the building.  I found her on the slat window on the south side, near the west end.  She went into the corner and pulled out some food she had cached there.  It looked really fresh, probably leftovers from this morning.

Joyce joined me and we settled in to watch Pigott enjoy her meal.  Crows were flying overhead and Pigott kept looking up.  I’ve seen the Crows on the building before, stealing her caches, so she has learned to hide her caches very carefully from aerial thieves.

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When Pigott ate her fill, she took off with the remainder and flew around to the north side of the building.  I found Pigott on a east facing window on the south east extension, below the tree ledge.  It was time for me to say goodbye to Joyce and to Pigott.

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I drove through downtown, looking for Dot.ca and Beauty.  He was on the Times Square Bldg on the north east wing ledge and I found Beauty up inside the OCSR elevator shaft on the south ledge.

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On my way home, I checked out the  Charlotte/Summerville area.  I didn’t find any falcons, but I did find fellow Watchers Dana and Lou.  I also checked out Russell Station one more time and again found no falcons there.  It was time to end my watch and head home.

Tonight we are under a high wind warning with gusts expected to reach up to 60 mph.  Be safe everyone!

I’ll leave you with a few pictures I took during my watch today.  Remember to click on any pictures you would like to see larger.  Goodnight everyone!

First some pics of the turkeys out at BS.  They are really quite beautiful birds!

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and another picture of my favorite sunset spot, Buck Pond in Greece, NY.

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