By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Sunrise at 7:40 am.  Sunset at 4:54 pm.

Watchers out today were Larry O, Joyce, Brian & me Carol P.

Today temps in Rochester, NY, went up into the teens and the sun was out for a little while.  A nice change from the single digit temperatures and below zero windchill.

I headed downtown after work, stopping first at the Kodak Office Tower.  This is my view as I come off of Rte 390, showing the west side of the tower. (3:50 pm)

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While I was checking out Kodak Office and not finding any falcons there, I received a tweet from Joyce.  She was downtown on the Broad St Bridge.  Joyce texted that she had watched Beauty chase off a Red-tail Hawk and that Beauty was now on top of the Mercury statue.  I joined Joyce and Brian down on Aqueduct St. (4:10 pm)

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At 4:30 pm, Beauty took off and flew up into the OCSR elevator shaft.  I drove over there and found Beauty on the north side ledge.

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We could not find Dot.ca downtown, so I headed over to the BS location.  Pigott was on the northeast corner of the east extension.

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I parked where I could keep an eye on Pigott and watch the east end of the building.  As the sunset and I was quickly losing light (approx 5:07 pm), Dot.ca flew in from the east and landed on the tree ledge on the east end of the building.  He had successfully hunted and landed next to the tree with his meal.  While Dot.ca prepared his meal and feathers were flying, Pigott took off and flew around to the north side of the building.

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I drove around to the north side of the building and found Pigott on a north facing window on the east extension.  She was 3 windows down.  We believe this is her nighttime roost.

It was going on 5:30 pm when I left the BS location.  Dot.ca was eating and Pigott was tucked into her nighttime spot.  With Beauty up inside the elevator shaft, that made all three of the Rochester Falcons seen t0day.

I am always very happy to see all three of them doing well, especially after such harsh weather.  Keep warm everyone and goodnight!

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