By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

I arrived on the Broad St Bridge just before 10:00 am to find both Beauty and Dot.ca on the south side of the OCSR, top IBeam.  MAK was reporting from the BS location that she had Pigott there, so all three Rochester Falcons were seen today by the Watchers; Beauty and Dot.ca downtown and Pigott and Dot.ca  at BS.

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At 10:55 am, Dot.ca took off heading south towards the jail communication tower and Cornhill.  Soon after Beauty took off.  I checked all over downtown twice before ending up at the Broad St Bridge.  From there I could see that Beauty had returned to the OCSR top IBeam, but I could not find Dot.ca.  So, I headed out to the BS location where Lisa McK was reporting that a falcon had just arrived there and was plucking feathers.  (10:50 am).

I joined Lisa and found a falcon on the SE corner of the east extension.  At first I thought it was Pigott, but after checking my pictures, I believe it was Dot.ca.

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Dot.ca took off and chased a Red-tailed Hawk to the south.

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I headed back downtown and found Beauty still on the south side of OCSR, top IBeam and Dot.ca was up on the Times Square Bldg southeast wing ledge.

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At noon, Beauty flew up to the nest box.

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First Beauty and then Dot.ca took off and flew northeast over the river.  To me it looked like they were in hunt mode.  There was no vocalization, although they had been “chatting” with each other earlier.

They did not return, so I went back out to the BS location and again had no luck finding Pigott.  Back downtown I went.  I found both Beauty and Dot.ca on the south side top IBeam of OCSR.

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Just as I was tweeting that I was ending my watch, Dot.ca took off and successfully hunted.  He ended up on the southeast wing ledge on the Times Square Bldg and started plucking feathers.

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I ended my watch at 2:30 pm.  It was nice to have a nice peaceful falcon watch today.  Goodnight everyone!

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