By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

A much warmer start to the day with a temperature of 38(F) 3(C) spotty rain showers and overcast dark conditions.

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I didn’t see anyone from the Broad St. bridge so I went down to the hole to check the Wilder green strip (WGS) as I rounded the corner past the Philipone building I heard lots of vocalization and when I looked up toward the nest box area I saw Beauty fly from the deck across to the WGS and land on the east corner. Dot.ca (DC) was no doubt checking out his newest egg up in the nest box.

Beauty stayed perched with her back to me for quite a while as I watched her from Aqueduct St. and then she stood up and started nibbling on something. I surmised that DC had given her a food gift and that’s what all the noise was about when I first arrived on scene. It was a small offering but a gift is a gift and the Beautyful one needed to eat after laying that egg last night.

My friend Mary, who works at Thomson Reuters stopped by to chat with me. First time I’ve seen her since last fall-she was thrilled to hear Beauty had laid 2 eggs already. Beauty finished off her gift in less than 10 minutes then flew over to the deck.

DC came out of the nest box and Beauty bowed to him. He then flew out over the Philipone building, circled back and mated with Beauty on the deck at 7:35am.

DC gave Beauty and I quite the little happy dance zooming around the area before flying over to the top I-beam of OCSR landingnear the south corner while Beauty went to the nest box after watching the show from the deck corner by the main cam.

Just before 8am DC stooped to the east crossing over the river and vanishing fast behind the north end of the Radisson Hotel. I had to get going as I had my pre-op appointment at 9am, but I did stop to check Seneca Towers on the way. Neither Billie nor 99 were on the building as I ended my watch at 8:15am. Keep smiling everybody! 🙂

Click on the links below to see today’s videos

http://youtu.be/8U75s2TT33k

http://youtu.be/9sOlQ3aEYe0

http://youtu.be/Ld3an0xO3m8

http://youtu.be/4ry-cwNbssk

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