By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was overcast with a temperature of 30 (F) 1(C) as I stepped out for my morning watch-the sun came out for a little bit towards the end of it.

While I was enroute downtown cam watcher Annette reported a falcon on the Mercury money bag (thanks) by the time I got to the hole it was gone but I did see Beauty up on the top ibeam near the south corner of OCSR. She would stay there until 7:30am when she flew south over the river going into a stoop and leaving my field of vision.

I went looking on the east side for the Beautyful one and found that the ice skating rink at Manhattan Square Park was looking ready for business. As I returned to the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) I spotted  Beauty up on the Times Square building (TSB) under the northeast wing. She flew off  soon after I arrived in the hole to observe her.

At this point I left for the Brighton site after getting a tweet from Larry that he had a falcon eating on the east side at 8am. We chatted for a few minutes and then Larry left as Pigott finished eating and flew to a south facing window on the northeast extension.

After some preening and looking pretty in the sun Pigott waved goodbye and walked to the end of the ledge where I couldn’t see her. I quickly went to where I could see her proving that on this day she could run but she couldn’t hide from old MAK. lol

Around 8:45am Pigott started vocalizing and then I heard the familiar chirp of a certain male PEFA. Dot.Ca (DC) had arrived and Pigott flew out to greet him before they flew to the west side of the building. As I arrived over there DC was on the front edge of the cubby eechupping and Pigott was on a west side window ledge.

<DC       Pigott>

DC moved into the cubby out of view and while I was tweeting Pigott left-it was very quiet for the next 10 minutes so I assumed they both left. I returned to downtown and while I was on the east side I saw a falcon fly to the northeast corner of Midtown and land. After I found a spot to watch from another flew in from the east above the Midtown bird and then they both flew off out of my view.

I’m sure it was Beauty and DC for as I made my way to the BSB I found them on the TSB-Beauty was under the southeast wing and DC under the northeast wing.  Beauty had her back to me and DC so I had to go from the hole to the bridge for any kind of profile pic of her.

<DC> <Beauty>

DC kept moving around but Beauty stayed put as I also parked in front of the Blue Cross Arena for yet another angle.

<DC> <Beauty>

I left them at 9:45am after a pretty busy watch having seen all 3 resident Rochester Peregrine Falcons, thus ending my watch with a smile! 🙂

Click on the links below to see my videos of the day

http://youtu.be/8xqRYP89XSI
http://youtu.be/aQSA93Mp2uw
http://youtu.be/rvX1OZyNZWs
http://youtu.be/WGW1pNc9RYU
http://youtu.be/hj-zurTvAMU

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