By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

SNOW was falling throughout my watch at varying degrees and the temperature was 24(F) -4(C)  The snow stopped and the sun came out just minutes after I got home. Ugh!

I arrived downtown in a flurry of lake effect snow and managed to find both Beauty and Dot.ca (DC) on the Wilder green strip (WGS). He was next to the fire escape ladder and she was on the other side of it further down with her back to me.

Just some info to set up the next chain of events-every Sunday morning from 7-9am a local radio station plays Breakfast with the Beatles (my favorite band) and I listen to it on my MP3 player with my ear buds. So, I was taping Beauty and DC and while I had my camera fixed on DC holding it steady with my knee, I started tweeting out my findings. I glanced up to see that DC was gone so I set the camera on Beauty and finished my tweet. Well, let me just say that they pulled a fast one on old MAK, because later when I reviewed the tape to see what direction DC had flown off to, I could hear the sounds of mating! HAHAHA!!! Joke’s on me! While DC was gone catching breakfast I shared space with the Beautyful one who was closing her eyelids on and off.

All was quiet with the lovely snow falling around us until about 7:50am when DC came flying through above Beauty kakking. She looked up at him then settled back down. A couple minutes passed and the same thing, DC flew in kakking above us and this time he went over to the second I-beam southeast side of OCSR where he started plucking feathers from prey.

I watched DC as he prepared his catch, having a few bites for himself and then he flew off with it. I set up my camera so that it was fixed on Beauty so I could get some shots of DC giving her a food gift. I missed the whole exchange because the snow was coming down so hard-all I saw was a flurry of wings flapping through the snow with a lot of vocalizing and then Beauty flew down to the west end of the Wilder building and headed north right down Exchange Blvd. toward State St. and disappeared. DC remained on the green strip for a minute, walking back and forth as if he was looking for something, then he took off.

I went searching but was unable to find them so I went home to Seneca Towers where I had no luck finding Billie or 99. I ended my watch at 9am after waiting a bit to see if they would show up. I have to admit I got a bit frustrated  on watch this morning, but thinking about Beauty and DC mating right under my nose without me knowing puts a little smile on my face! 🙂

Click on the links below to see today’s videos

http://youtu.be/JC3tsoYRwoY

http://youtu.be/-r_0AYbnURk

http://youtu.be/JXLuKS4oAMQ

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