By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was quite a chilly start to the day this morning with a temperature of 37 (F)  3 (C) degrees and sunny blue skies once the sun came up

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Yesterday, Joyce saw a new falcon on the top window ledge (22nd floor) on the west end of the Seneca Towers building. She found a black over green band on the left leg and yellow tape on the right leg band. I believe I saw the same bird this morning on the west side roof railing after it started out on the same window ledge that Joyce saw it on. It had a depleted crop and was trying real hard to catch breakfast-flying off many times and returning with nothing to show for its efforts. A couple pics seem to show yellow on the right leg band-distance and darkness made for some not so good pics.

<looks like yellow on band

This falcon had a brownish front and looked small to me which would make it a male, but I really can’t say for sure. Like I said, it flew off many times returning to the same spot on that west side railing. It showed me its back and turned around giving me lots of leg shots-they just were not very clear.

As the sun came up in the east and shone on this falcon it got washed out-so it was either not enough light or too much here this morning. Darn! At 7:22am it flew off and took a left heading off to the east. I waited 5-10 minutes but it didn’t return this time.

I left for downtown wondering where Billie and Veteran were and hoping they hadn’t battled with this falcon and gotten hurt. Hopefully, we’ll have some answers soon-stay tuned!

Traffic downtown was terrible today with roads on the east side being paved and the Fringe Festival closing Court St. next to HSBC as it is taking place at Martin Luther King Jr. Park. Shaky had tweeted earlier that Beauty was on the base of Mercury eating so she was seen this morning but not by me-she eluded me today. I found Dot.Ca (DC) as I was scanning with my binocs from the Broad St. bridge (BSB). He was on the northeast corner of the Kodak Office (KO) launchpad and the closer I inched my way over through the traffic the whiter he looked.

The bright blue sky behind him was quite the contrast to his whiteness! He flew off like white lightning around 8:30am and headed south after hanging a right turn.

I checked the Frontier Communications very thoroughly a couple times and I also checked the OCSR elevator shaft twice as well besides the rest of downtown-no Beautyful one! At 9am I found DC on OCSR from the Andrews St. bridge (ASB)-he was on the top ibeam near the west corner on the north side with his back to me.

At first he looked like his eyes were closed and after a while he turned sideways. I left him to have one more look for his girl but she was hiding well.

A couple pics of the Fringe Festival area on the east side while I was over there.

As I left downtown I checked to see that DC was still on OCSR. No sign of a falcon at Hawkeye or Seneca Towers but that didn’t stop me from smiling as I ended my watch at 10:15am! 🙂

Click on the links below to see the videos from todays watch
http://youtu.be/WhWqOTxXU6A

http://youtu.be/_bFMy5coGxY

http://youtu.be/29LzKQsPnfU

http://youtu.be/TTqJFkUqM-0

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