By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

3:50 pm – 5:15 pm

No sunset tonight to see.  Cloudy, cold and rain on and off.  I apologize for the very poor quality of the pictures.  The lighting was horrible.

I arrived downtown at about 3:50 pm.  After checking all the falcon spots, I was unable to find Beauty or Dot.ca.  Onward to the BS location where I found Pigott on the west end of the south side vent.  While I was watching her, a smaller Peregrine was flying back and fourth over the top of the building, coming in and out of view.   When I looked back at Pigott, she had flown up to the SE corner of the SW extension.  The tiercel, that I believe was Dot.ca, although it was too dark to get a positive ID, landed on the south side vent.

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There was some ee-chupping between them and then Dot.ca took off and flew fast to the east side of the building.  That’s when I noticed there was a 3rd Peregrine that Dot.ca was chasing and stooping on.  They were both close in size, so two tiercels.  Both headed southeast over the trees.  When I looked back at Pigott, she didn’t seem to be bothered at all by the what was going on.  She continued to pluck feathers.  After awhile, Dot.ca returned and landed next to Pigott on the SW corner.  There was a lot of ee-chupping between them before Dot.ca took off and again headed south east and out of sight.

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While Dot.ca was gone, Pigott flew over to the west end of the south side vent and continued to pluck and eat.  At 4:30 pm, Dot.ca returned and their “wailing” vocalization filled the air.  I do love hearing all the sounds they make.  He landed on the east end of the south side vent.  They looked like bookends up there, Pigott on the left with her food and Dot.ca on the right keeping watch, just in case the other tiercel returned.

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By this time it was dark and raining lightly.  I left both Pigott and Dot.ca on the south side vent.  Again, because of the poor lighting, I was unable to get positive ID’s.  But due to behavior, I am pretty sure this was Pigott and Dot.ca.  I have no idea who the other tiercel was.

While I was keeping watch out at the BS location, Joyce was down at the lake checking for Billy or any other falcons that might be there.  She had no luck finding any at Charlotte/Summerville or Russell Station.

A little before 5:00 pm, I headed downtown to look for Beauty.  My first stop was the Broad St Bridge where I saw no falcons, so I drove over to the Radisson to look up into the OCSR elevator shaft.  I found a falcon there on the south side ledge.  It looked like Beauty to me and she was alone.

I tried to lighten this picture enough to see Beauty, but it didn’t work.  Hey!  It’s better than the picture I posted yesterday of Beauty in the elevator shaft!  lol

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Kathy O tweeted from BS that she had both Pigott and Dot.ca still on the building there.

It was dark and time for me to head out.

I’ll leave you with a couple pics of the funnel shaped contraption on top of the State St Ramp Garage, which at night changes colors.  I’ve seen a few falcons sit up there during my falcon watches, including Mariah many years ago, when she was trying to teach tiny Grissom to take a Pigeon from her.  He never did get that Pigeon.  But that’s a whole other story.  Goodnight everyone!

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