By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

On my side of the city we got 5 inches of snow last night-when I got downtown there was maybe a couple and in Brighton I could see the grass with them getting even less. That’s how lake effect goes-it creates snow bands of varying degrees. The starting temperature was 20 (F) -7 (C) and with the wind chill factor it felt like it was 11 degrees (F) -12 (C)

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I didn’t find Beauty until almost 7:30am as I returned from the east side. She had visited Mercury, as reported to me by Donna while I was on the east side looking for her. When I reached the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) I saw Beauty on the top ibeam southeast side of OCSR. I took a ride over to the Radisson Hotel by Main St. to see the front of her, from there I could see her nibbling on a wing.

The Beautyful one finished less than a minute later and got cleaned up-one of her talons got special attention.

She seemed to get settled so I took a drive around to look for Dot.Ca (DC) -after an unsuccessful search for him I went to our Brighton Site (BS) where I found Pigott at home. Around 8:30am I found Miss Pigott on the northeast corner of the northeast extension. Initially I watched her from the front of the property and when she turned toward the east I went to the east side to observe her. She did a lot of looking around while I was there which is normal for her. Around 9am she gave me the look, flew east and never looked back.

With that I made my return trip to downtown and found DC on the Mercury Money Bag (MMB). I was parked at the end of Basin St. in the hole and I could see OCSR from there as well as Beauty was in the same place I left her on the top ibeam southeast side. DC was very busy watching a prey bird below him so busy that he slipped and almost fell off. Beauty and I just watching the show.

DC stooped on whatever he was fixated with but missed and went back to the money bag perch to continue watching it all over again. He finally gave up and flew over to OCSR, grabbed the wing leftover that Beauty had been eating on earlier and flew off to the east. Again, Beauty and I watching his antics.

After that I couldn’t help but end my watch smiling for not only DC the entertainer but also for having seen our 3 beloved resident Peregrine Falcons! 🙂

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