By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

12:30 to 3:00 pm

Finally, a day above 30 degrees, sunshine and none of the white stuff falling from the sky.  But it was windy and some of the snow that was on the ground was airborne.  But that’s ok.  It was above freezing and the sun felt wonderful.

Fellow Falcon Watcher Kathy O was already out and about.  She was currently downtown watching Beauty and Dot.ca on the Kodak Tower.  Kathy let me know that she had seen no falcons at Kodak Park West, so I headed to the BS location, missing Kathy who had been there just before me.   I drove around the building a couple times, but could not find the dark helmeted, unbanded falcon I had seen there yesterday.

I headed downtown and joined Kathy in front of Frontier Field on Plymouth.  From there we had a nice view of Dot.ca on the SE corner of the launchpad on the Kodak Tower.  Beauty was not there when I first arrived, but she showed up soon after, landing next to Dot.ca on the launch pad.  They did a bit of bowing and softly ee-chupped to each other.  She then took off and flew around the tower, landing above Dot.ca on the cupola.

Kathy had to leave, so I continued my watch alone.  Both Beauty and Dot.ca took off and I waited to see if they would return. When they didn’t come back in 15 minutes, I drove around downtown trying to find them.  There was no where to park on the Broad St Bridge, due to the Section Five Basketball games that were being played in the Blue Cross Arena.

I checked out the Rfalconcam cameras and found that Dot.ca had visited the nest box for a short time while I was searching.

I ended up on the Andrew St. Bridge and from there I saw a falcon flying around the Kodak Tower.  It was Dot.ca and he landed on the SE Corner of the launch pad.  I waited for awhile to see if Beauty would join him.  She did not return before I had to leave.

On my way home, I checked out the Hawkeye nest box.  No falcons there, but I did see a juvie Red-tail Hawk soaring above the buildings there.  Seneca Towers was also falconless.

I’ll leave you with a picture of Kodak Office.  So many good memories.  43 young falcons fledged from the Kodak Tower under the watchful eyes of their parents Mariah, Cabot-Sirocco & Kaver and the Rochester Falcon Watchers.  It’s nice to see our current falcon pair Beauty and Dot.ca there.  Enjoy the warmer weather this week.  Temps in the 40’s on Tuesday and Wednesday!  Spring will be here soon!

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