By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was a dark misty rain start to my watch with a temperature of 53 (F) 12 (C)

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I had the privilege of starting another morning with Billie as I spotted her on the west side roof railing of Seneca Towers as I was leaving for downtown. She flew south down toward the river gorge a couple minutes later as I was sending a tweet out of her location.

Billie didn’t return so I went on my way to downtown. I checked the east side last and found both Beauty and Dot.Ca (DC) on Xerox-she was on her 5th column from the southeast corner and he was on the 7th column from the southwest. They were 13 columns apart from each other but kept an eye on each other and I heard some vocalization at the beginning as I was pulling over on Chestnut St..

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They did some preening but mostly they watched the area and each other. At 8:28am Beauty flew off to the south while I was watching her-I immediately focused my camera to where DC had been but he was gone, so I don’t know who left first.

I caught up with them as they were on the top ibeam of OCSR-the Beautyful one was on the south corner and DC was to the left of her a couple feet away. I drove down to the hole at Bank Place and Aqueduct St. to watch. Beauty flew off less than a minute later and DC followed right after her. She came to rest on the heel of Mercury and DC returned to OCSR landing on the 2nd ibeam south corner.

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Beauty flew west around 8:45am but DC didn’t follow this time-he seems to be having a tough time with his molt and isn’t expelling a lot of energy on much of anything else these days. Left to look for Beauty but never found her-I checked Hawkeye and the Kodak research building but found nobody at either location. I checked out the lower falls again-love them!

Hours later when I got home, I checked all 4 sides of Seneca Towers to no avail. I ended my watch at 9:30am. Keep smiling everybody! 🙂

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