By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

A cloudy dark morning with a temperature of 61 (F) 16 (C)  at the start

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I started my watch at Seneca Towers with Buffalo Billie. She was on the top south window ledge as I rounded the corner in my parking lot. She had her back to me at first but then turned to the side as she preened, pulling out a couple feathers and stretched. I believe Billie is molting. I left Billie at 6:15am for downtown where I drove around in circles with no falcon sightings in over an hour.

In my ventures there were flower planters on Broad St. and at the High Falls area that I thought I should share with y’all.

I stopped on the Court St. bridge and observed a Great Blue Heron that was hunting under the Broad St. bridge (BSB). He lunged into the water twice and caught a small fish the second time. Boy they’re lightning fast! 2 young ducks and a Canada Goose were over by the Rundell Library eating and enjoying the water. And of course there were gulls and ducks swimming and hanging out on logs and such. My little bunny friend was out eating grass and weeds at High Falls again too!

I had to run an errand so I left around 7:45am and soon after Pat tweeted that there was a falcon on the Mercury money bag and a few minutes later Shaky tweeted that it was on the heel of Mercury. Such is the life of a falcon watcher-anyway, when I returned I went straight to the BSB hoping this falcon would still be on Mercury. Success! Beauty was on the heel looking…well, Beautyful!

She was definitely in hunt mode as her head was turning constantly to and fro. She finally spotted something over her shoulder and slipped off the back of the heel into a stoop and disappeared behind Thomson Reuters.

I searched for Beauty unsuccessfully and didn’t have any other falcon sightings downtown or at Seneca Towers either. I ended my ladies only watch at just before 10am smiling as I was content in seeing Billie and Beauty to start and end my watch on this day! 🙂

Click on the links below to see today’s videos

http://youtu.be/QVQnsx7Y_qE

http://youtu.be/vZgakJi55_4

http://youtu.be/CGVzXjzZ1MY

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