Morning watch 6-8-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
What a gorgeous morning for a watch with a temperature of 57 (F) 14 (C) and blue sun shiny skies
As I rounded the corner from South Ave. to the Broad St. bridge (BSB) I spotted a falcon watcher on the south side of the bridge sitting in his lawn chair. It was Dan and he had his binoculars up to his face watching Dot.Ca (DC) on the top ibeam south corner of OCSR. As I made a u-turn to pull up behind his car I got that big beautiful smile of his-a great way to start my watch! 
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At 6:30am DC flew over to the heel of Mercury and seconds later Beauty appeared out of nowhere and knocked him off taking his place while he went over to cam 1.
At about 6:50am Beauty flew east crossing the river going behind the Chase building and continuing on past Bausch & Lomb, circling above Xerox then flying over Midtown and vanishing on the east side. Meanwhile DC remained on cam 1 watching over his offspring. I had tweeted this but for some reason it didn’t get sent. Around 7am DC flew up to the northeast wing ledge and soon after stooped down toward the Wilder building out of view. A minute later I noticed DC on the top ibeam south corner of OCSR.
At 7:15am Dan left and I went for a ride to look for Beauty-as I was coming up on the BSB from the east side I saw a falcon fly to the base of Mercury from the OCSR building where I had left DC. I reported that it was DC but it was actually Beauty as I could plainly see when I was checking my pics for this report. She was catching her breath before pulling feathers out of a fresh kill and then she had a few bites as I observed her from the hole.
At 7:41am the Beautyful one flew off Mercury with her package and took it over to the Times Square building (TSB) lower back roof north side after DC came off cam 1 met her over the Philipone building then flew back to cam 1. At the time I thought there was a food exchange but they faked me out!
Beauty had a few bites then cached the remains and flew around to knock DC off cam 1. Larry was up on the BSB with Harold at this time reporting what he could see from there. DC flew to the Mercury money bag (NNB) and Beauty flew down to the nest box. I then went up to the BSB to join Larry.
It quieted down after that so I checked out the Genesee River-the water level is down to where shore birds can enjoy it again. The only birds down there were ducks at the time-hopefully we’ll start seeing herons again soon.
Larry and I decided to head out as all was calm in the Rochester Peregrine Falcon world-we were both smiling! 🙂
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June 8th, 2014 at 5:11 PM
MAK, one of my co-workers told me at the end of last week that she saw a heron on the river Thursday or Friday, south of the Broad Street Bridge. She said she would have missed it if it hadn’t flapped its wings while she was looking for it.
June 8th, 2014 at 9:20 PM
Great news Pat! 🙂