By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

At 33 degrees (F) 1 (C) the same as yesterday but the conditions were totally different with overcast and foggy skies and occasional very light rain

I found Dot.Ca (DC) on the top ibeam south corner of the OCSR building for my first sighting of the day around 7:25am.

I left him to look for Beauty driving across the Main St. bridge eastbound, I stopped to take a picture of the Christmas lights on the walkway above Main St. that goes from the Radisson Hotel on the left to the Rochester Convention Center on the right.

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I found the Beautyful one on the east side up on the southwest corner of HSBC. Within a couple minutes she did one of those drop off the building right into stoop formation takeoffs going after 2 pigeons that looked like they were glued to each others side. Like a missile Beauty went after them and at around 10 feet above Chestnut St. she pulled up THANKFULLY as I nearly had a heart attack over it, then she flew east out of sight. It’s exciting enough just to watch a PEFA stoop on prey but this was a little TOO exciting if ya know what I mean!

I looked around but never found her again and on my way back thru I saw that DC was gone from OCSR so I moved on to the Brighton Site. Arriving there just past 8am I found Pigott on the west end of the south side vent. She was scrunched down and all foofed up moving her head to and fro checking out her territory.

Miss Pigott  had some food in her crop and at one point she pooped, spread her wings seemingly ready to fly off but changed her mind and settled back down.

Soon after that she flew off to the southeast and didn’t return. I waited about 20 minutes then left for downtown. As I drove down Exchange Blvd northbound  I stopped to take a pic of the foggy east side of the city.

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where I was unsuccessful in finding a falcon. I ended my watch a little past 9:30am happy and smiling for having seen all 3 resident Rochester Peregrine Falcons! 🙂

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