By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The starting temperature this morning was 69 (F) 21 (C) with bright blue skies and sunshine

I started my Labor day in the company of Billie and Seth who were on the north end of Seneca Towers across from each other on the top window ledge.

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Nothing new there but as I made my way down St. Paul St. toward downtown I spotted a falcon on the north end of Kodak’s defunct Hawkeye (HE) plant. I pulled into the parking lot across from HE to check out who this might be. At first it looked dark in the front but different angles showed that it was not so dark.

There was a flock of small birds that flew below this unbanded, and based on size a male (tiercel). He started looking down and then dove off straight down swooping back and forth before stopping.

He didn’t resurface so I drove over to the driveway for the Rochester School for the Deaf where I found him on a guardrail behind a chain link fence on the HE property.

He jumped down to the pavement and proceeded to walk over to a half eaten mourning dove (at the time I thought it was a pigeon). On the video I taped you can see many, many bees buzzing around him.

I think he would have started eating right there had it not been for the bees. He soon took off with his food heading out over the river gorge out of view. It was 7am when Larry tweeted from the Andrews St. bridge (ASB) that he had a falcon at the Powers building nest.

I figure it must have been a migrating bird as I left for downtown. From the ASB I spotted a falcon on the northeast cube and east side platform railing of the Frontier Communications tower (FCT).

While I tweeted it out the railing bird left and as I looked south over the river I saw 2 falcons flying southeast. One just past the Radisson Hotel and the other behind the Federal building. Beauty was most likely one of them and the other might have been an intruder or a juvie-no way of telling. I left to check the FCT falcon and found that it was Dot.ca (DC). After reviewing my pic on the computer screen I believe it was Beauty on the railing.

Larry reported seeing a falcon at 7:13am from the Broad St. bridge fly from Times Square northwest and then he and Harold came to the Hochstein School of Music parking lot to join me for a few minutes. Larry decided to head home but said he would check the Xerox area which is the direction Beauty and the other falcon were flying. I took a couple more pics of DC, who had walked to the corner of the cube, then headed that way myself.

No sightings on the east side and when I returned to FCT, DC was gone and the Beautyful one was just flying in from the southeast. She landed on the top arm at approximately 7:45am.

Beauty did a little preening but she was in hunt mode and kept looking below her. While I was taping her she dove off the arm and when she resurfaced she was chasing 3 pigeons. Beauty was unsuccessful in catching any of them and then she flew north toward Kodak Office (KO).

I headed north and from Verona St. on the west side of KO, I spotted Beauty up on the northwest corner of the launchpad.

It was starting to heat up so I left Beauty for Irondequoit to check the Medley Centre. I didn’t find Big Frank or any other falcons there or on the way over. I ended my watch a little after 9am with a smile after seeing all 4 resident Rochester Peregrine Falcons and a bonus visitor at Hawkeye! 🙂

Click on the links below to see today’s videos

http://youtu.be/oQ1ZxOfAoyU

http://youtu.be/94gloS3y6NM

http://youtu.be/_XTSiKkzPj4

http://youtu.be/nSUcROWHxKE

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