By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The temperature was 53 (F) 11 (C) at the start and sunny-the clouds rolled in making it overcast for the middle of my watch and the end was mostly sunny

As I was getting ready to leave for my watch, a Seneca Towers falcon flew outside my window on the 16th floor. I didn’t see it but I heard it vocalizing at 5:45am.

I joined Dan on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) at 6am on this summer solstice-the longest day as far as light hours. We will begin losing daylight each day now.  Beauty was on cam 1 and Dot.Ca (DC) on the top ibeam south corner of OCSR. Buddy the gull was eating a brown, dried up piece of some kind of meat in the middle of the road and having a hard time getting it down.

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Things stayed this way until DC flew off to the southeast wing ring around 6:35am. The kids were up and about practicing flapping their wings and such.

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At 6:50am Beauty flew over to the Philippone building (never seen a falcon on this building) and landed on the lower southwest corner-she seemed to be looking for something as she flew, hopped and walked her way to the upper southeast corner. A small bird appeared behind her and I wondered if that was what she was looking for. She never saw it and flew off at 6:55am-returning to cam 1.

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DC flew off the wing ring at 7:02am heading south-we followed him with our binoculars until he became a speck in the sky and vanished. 10 minutes later the Beautyful one flew over to the base of Mercury. The crew was back on the Main St. bridge to finish removing the logs and debris under the bridge that they had started 2 weeks ago.

Dan left at 7:25am and I went down to the hole to see the front of Beauty-she took off at 7:40am flying over the Blue Cross Arena and headed south.

I drove around to a different spot in time to see what she was flying after-DC was coming in with a small package. She followed him to the deck where she landed next to him, grabbed the food and flew to the base of Mercury with it. DC flew over to OCSR top ibeam south corner then Beauty returned to the deck with a tiny piece of food to feed to the kids.

At 7:49am Beauty flew to the heel of Mercury for a few minutes then flew to cam 4 to perch for a bit as she watched over the 4 soon to be fledglings.

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DC did some preening while one of his boys wandered out onto the well wall and started making his way north as Larry and Harold arrived. It was Mercury who made his way to the end of the wall where it leads to the building at the north end.

Beauty flew over to the top ibeam west corner of OCSR as DC remained on the south corner and Mercury hung out on the well wall. Larry and I ended the watch at 9am with visions of eyasses turning into fledglings by weeks end-something to smile about and give us a few more gray hairs! 🙂

PS-almost forgot-I saw Luzerne on the northwest corner of Seneca Towers when I got home today. I barely had time to get 1 pic and then she was off

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