By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was a dark, rainy morning with a temperature 0f 53 (F)  12 (C)

I wasn’t surprised when I checked the north end of Seneca Towers top window ledge and found nobody on it as I figured Billie and Seth were taking cover from the rain somewhere. However, I did find Seth on the south end top window ledge as I was about to exit my parking lot.

About a minute later he crouched down as they do when another falcon is approaching and started chirping just like Dot.ca (DC) as Billie flew in to join him.

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I wasn’t going to stay out too long because of the rain as the falcons don’t do much in wet conditions so I moved along to check downtown. When I didn’t see anyone from the Andrews St. bridge I went straight over to the Radisson Hotel to check the OCSR elevator shaft-DC was on the north side ledge eating.

The rain was coming down pretty good at that point so I put my window up and left to search for Beauty. From Woodbury Blvd. I spotted her on the south side of HSBC near the southeast corner with her back to me.

I went over to Chestnut St. by the Martin Luther King Jr. park for a closer look but the rain was blowing at me thru the window getting my camera much too wet for my liking.

So I left there and went to the Strong Museum of Play parking lot where I could position my car to better block the sideways rain from coming right at me.

In my travels I didn’t see any prey birds out and about so I figured the Beautyful one would be up there for a while until an opportunity to catch something presented itself. I left for Irondequoit to look for Big Frank at the Medley Centre-no luck there so I went home where I found Buffalo Billie and Seth still on the top south window ledge. I bid them farewell and ended my watch at 8:30am smiling after a wet but successful watch in which I saw all 4 resident Rochester Peregrine Falcons! 🙂

Click on the link below to see my short snippet movie from this mornings watch

https://youtu.be/PwXkx7-qRWw

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