By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was a humid 66 (F) 19 (C) degrees when I started out with blue skies and sunshine

Billie and Seth were there on the north end top window ledge of Seneca Towers to greet me this morning. They played a switcheroo on me with Billie at the west end where Seth usually perches and Seth at the east end where she usually stands. He watched as she preened and so I left them to head downtown.

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I pulled over on the Andrews St. bridge to do my usual check of the north side of things and when I looked to the Kodak Office (KO) tower I spotted a falcon flying off the launchpad and going into a stoop down toward the river gorge. I drove down to State and Platt St. in time to see Dot.ca (DC) land on the northeast corner of the playpen netting at just before 7am.

DC turned his back to me facing to the north so I went down to Brown ans State St. to watch him.  A few minutes later while I was taping him Genesee flew in quite vocally and knocked dad off and took his spot. DC flew up to the north side of the east arch then flew across to the south side to face his son.

Genesee spread his wings for balance as he turned around where I could see the front of him while DC looked on and listened to his boy whine practically non-stop.

Be sure to click on all my pics to see the full version

I do believe Genesee is having difficulty keeping himself fed and so comes back home to beg for food from Beauty and DC from time to time. It’s surprising to me, if that’s the case, because he seemed to be more advanced than the rest of the brood from the very start.

Anyway, Genesee flew off to the southeast around 7:10am and returned coming to rest on the KO cupola northeast side then proceeded to walk over to the southeast side where I couldn’t see him. I went down to State and Platt St. to find him.

DC remained on the east arch looking north while Genesee looked south and finally stopped whining. The boy flew off while I was watching DC on my camera screen so I missed his exit. I left for downtown and as I was pulled over on the Court St. bridge to check the east side buildings I spotted Genesee on the base of Mercury.

I then whipped over to the Broad St. bridge to get closer. Genesee spent 5-10 minutes looking around then flew southeast at 7:49am into the horizon until I could no longer see him.

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After searching unsuccessfully for Beauty and Genesee I stopped to check on DC at KO before leaving downtown. He was still on the east side arch but was back on the north side of it as I checked from the south and north side of KO.

As I crossed the Veteran’s Memorial bridge I could see a falcon on the north side top window-probably Seth in his spot. I continued on to the Medley Center where initially there was nobody present. I waited about 10 minutes when Little Big Frank (BF) came flying in from the southwest and landed on the front of the glass peak roof over the carousel. Some pigeons caught his attention below and then he flew off.

BF then landed on the southeast corner of the brick roof down from where he was just perched giving me a very up close and personal view of him.

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He did a little preening and wing stretches but mainly he was looking for a meal and he was also looking very handsome!

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We shared space for about 40 minutes then Big Frank flew off to the north in a big hurry and so I too, flew north to Seneca Towers where I ended my watch at 9:30am.

With the exception of seeing Billie first thing, my watch consisted of all the boys today and they sure did make me smile! 🙂

Click on the links below to view today’s videos

http://youtu.be/DtiiDFgMzkQ

http://youtu.be/wtbzKAz007g

http://youtu.be/GxdkrWefS7M

http://youtu.be/ZKppp-7kd9Q

http://youtu.be/oFONHSiK9to

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