By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Man, that wind was cold today as the temperature was 26(F) -3(C) There were snowflakes on and off and overcast conditions

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I was contacted by fellow watcher and friend Kathy Olney last night that she had been downtown yesterday afternoon for quite a while and didn’t see either falcon so I was anxious to find Beauty and Dot.ca (DC) this morning. No problem finding DC as I spotted him right off the bat under the northeast wing of Times Square plucking feathers from prey(TSB) from the hole about 7:10am.

A few minutes later DC flew off with his prey to the second I-beam southeast side of OCSR. I drove over to the Radisson Hotel by Main St. to watch him. He started picking at his catch and about 10-15 minutes later stopped eating. At the time I thought it was Beauty that was whining but it turned out to be DC and I’m pretty sure he was calling for Beauty because he wanted to give up his leftovers as a food offering to her.

DC started chirping and at 7:41am he flew toward TSB-I watched him vanish and then I drove over to Basin St. in the hole where I spotted him on the deck by the main cam. He chirped for quite a long time looking around for his mate to give her his food gift.

He gave up and flew off with his small package at 7:50am whining the whole time and I was starting to get a bit concerned that Beauty hadn’t shown herself. He took it to a ledge on the north side of TSB for a very brief moment then flew over to the east side of Widows Walk.

DC didn’t stay there for long either as he took the prey into the middle inside of the railings and flew out from the west side heading northwest.

I thought perhaps he had gone to Kodak Office to look for his Beautyful mate but I didn’t find either one of them there. The angst was building as time went on and no sign of Beauty. I called cam watcher Donna to see if she had Beauty when she checked the mornings archives on rfalconcam. She said that Beauty had been on the deck at 6:52am, so I was relieved to know that she was seen on cam but I wanted to see her on watch as well just to make sure all was okay. I came back to the Times Square area and spotted DC on the base of Mercury from Broad St. by the Blue Cross Arena.

I had been out for an hour and still no Beauty sighting so I left DC to go search some more. I checked and re-checked and came across DC now on the third I-beam south corner of OCSR. After watching him nap for a few minutes I set out again after Beauty.

After failing to find her once again I decided to go to the hole and just watch DC who was still on the third I-beam sleeping, and wait to see if she showed up. I didn’t have to wait at all because right up on the Wilder building’s green strip was our Beauty with her back to the world just before the 9 o’clock hour. Big PHEW!!!

I had mentioned while taping her that she likes to hang out here when she is close to egg laying time. So, one of these days in the next couple weeks or so we’re going to see a nice shiny red egg in that bowl she and DC have been working on in their nest box pea gravel. When I came home this afternoon from walking Isabella (falcon watcher Jeanne’s dog) Billie and 99 were up on the top window ledge south side of Seneca Towers at close proximity to each other. So not only did Beauty ease our minds by showing up but I saw all 4 Rochester Peregrine Falcons today-more than enough to make me smile and thankful! 🙂

Click on the links below to see today’s videos

http://youtu.be/UMfNGhNaeIY

http://youtu.be/JqsZBwdtALQ

http://youtu.be/EeKzDvfNX5Y

http://youtu.be/e6_zS1uAIEw

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