By Rochester Falcon Watcher  MAK

It is warming up around here as todays starting temperature was 25 (F)  -4 (C) it snowed a couple more inches over nite but it stopped as I left for downtown. Overcast at first the sun broke thru at the very end of my watch

While looking for falcons I came across more lights and a fire was in progress at Scio and University St. with many emergency and police vehicles.

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Finally as I was coming back from checking the Kodak Office tower (KO) driving south bound toward Times Square I spotted a falcon flying above the river going north. I turned around and drove down State St to find Beauty on the southeast corner of the launchpad on KO and she was plucking feathers off some food.

Beauty finished in a few minutes so I believe it was either cached food or she ate the lions share of it elsewhere and finished it off on KO. No matter because she had a full crop so i knew that she had a good meal.

A couple minutes later Dot.Ca (DC) flew in landing very close to the Beautyful one to check out what food might be left-it wasn’t much because he only nibbled for  half a minute or less. After that they spent some time looking at each other and then preened together.

I left our downtown duo to check for Pigott over at our Brighton site but she wasn’t home when I was there so I went back downtown. Beauty and DC were still on the KO launchpad so I took a drive over to the Pont de Rennes pedestrian bridge to check out the High Falls. They were half frozen and the other half was flowing at a pretty good clip.

I looked west to KO and could see Beauty and DC still in their same spots took a shot of them and called it a watch at 9am.

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It so makes me smile to see them hanging out in such close proximity! 🙂

Click on the links below to see some videos I have shared

http://youtu.be/egdYhT1Ji0o

http://youtu.be/V71bLmxTmO4

http://youtu.be/GCA8dFKEmlc

http://youtu.be/G9-YKPZoGbk

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