By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was an overcast morning to start, with a temperature of 62 (F) 17 (C).   It became sunny with some clouds then back to overcast

I began my watch at Seneca Towers (ST)

on the west side balcony of my 16th floor with a juvie on the south side ledge of the Veterans Memorial Bridge. It had its back to me so I couldn’t tell who it was.

I went down to my car and found Billie on the south side top window ledge-she started out with her back to me in the middle of the ledge then she walked over to the right (east) side end of the ledge, which is her preferred spot.

With no other falcons in view and Buffalo Billie looking quite content, I left for downtown. Arriving downtown about 6:20am, from the Andrews St. bridge (ASB) I could see Beauty in the Powers nest box and a juvie on the northeast platform corner of the Frontier Communications tower (FCT.

I drove over to the Hochstein School of Music parking lot so I could ID the juvie on FCT-it was Cadence, as I got a look at her leg bands when she flew off to the south about 10 minutes later.

I drove to the hole parking lot when I spotted a falcon on the base of Mercury from the ASB-Beauty was gone from the Powers nest box. The back lighting was not good from there so I went up on the Broad St. bridge (BSB).

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While I was watching Miss Cadence I checked out the river below and found a Great Blue Heron and a Black-crowned Night Heron fishing. There were ducks and Canada Geese down there as well.

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Cadence flew northwest from Mercury at 7am. I headed that direction as well but didn’t find her until I ended up on the east side of the river. The little trickster doubled back in the opposite direction from where she led me!

I noticed her from Woodbury Blvd. on the southeast corner of the HSBC railing-quite frankly, she was hard to miss! I drove over to Broad St. behind HSBC to observe our little Beauty look alike.

Cadence didn’t stay for long as she flew northeast at 7:31am. Around the same time that I first found her on HSBC, Larry had tweeted that he saw a falcon flying east over the Little Theater, which is very close to where Cadence was so it could have been her before she settled on HSBC.

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I spent some time looking around the area northeast of downtown but didn’t find Cadence or any other falcon. On my way to the High Falls for a look/see before heading home to Seneca Towers I came across a mural of falcons on Andrews St. I found a Great Blue Heron on the north and south sides of the Pont de Rennes pedestrian bridge and the usual ducks and geese in the High Falls gorge but no falcons. In the grass near where I parked my car in the Genesee brewery parking lot I saw a young rabbit eating grass-cute!

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I was pleasantly surprised when I pulled over on Seth Green Dr. to find both ST juvies on the west side railing. Sellie was on the left facing me and Bith a few feet to the right with his back to me.

Sellie started stretching, which peaked Bith’s curiosity. He walked over to his brother and they had a few words followed by Sellie moving a couple steps away after Bith attempted to touch beaks with him. Apparently, Sellie didn’t like Bith in his personal space-he was quite close! You can see it all go down on my snippet video-the first link at the end of my report. It was really quite cute and touching to see.

Ah, brotherly love!

A few minutes later Bith suddenly spread his wings and flew off startling Sellie who lost his footing and almost fell off the back of the railing. He righted himself then flew off after his brother to the south.

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That’s all she wrote-I ended my watch smiling at just about 10am after seeing 3 out of 4 Rochester Peregrine Falcon juvies! 🙂

As always, click on the links below to see today’s videos

http://youtu.be/1mm3pYwchbY

http://youtu.be/5jhbqL5-AjI

http://youtu.be/c1h_dSwe_Fo

http://youtu.be/S9Wniylvr2U

http://youtu.be/pVBFHfJOtdU

http://youtu.be/c7wopbynvGg

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