By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

There was barely a cloud in the sky as the sun shone brightly after a starting temperature of  56 (F) 13 (C)

Billie and Seth greeted me this morning from the top window ledge north end of Seneca Towers.

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I left for downtown after a quick look at them leaving them to wake up. I found Beauty on the northeast cube of the Frontier Communications tower (FCT) from the Andrews St. bridge before going over to Fitzhugh St. to be closer.

She was watching her surroundings pretty intently and after a while something caught her attention below her that I couldn’t see.

The Beautyful one flew off around the north side of FCT and landed on a west side beam,then into the middle lower red section and then settling out on the south side top beam of middle red section.

She didn’t stay for long as she flew southeast at 7:38am. Not sure what all that was about for I didn’t see anything below her anywhere.

I went to the Court St. bridge on my way to check the east of the river since that was the direction Beauty had gone from FCT and before I could cross I spotted a falcon flying above Xerox so I pulled over to observe.

It was dark so I was sure it wasn’t Dot.ca but the distance and back lighting didn’t make for very good pictures of this falcon. It went very high at one point, then out over the river and back to Xerox to ride the therms just above the roof. It landed many times on various antennas on the roof just barely touching down then taken up by the wind currents. It ended up drifting to the south out of view.

I suspect it was Beauty but can’t say for sure-whoever it was gave me a nice show! I checked out the rest of the east side and could find nothing and ended up back at FCT where Beauty was on the northeast cube again. In the short time I spent with her, Beauty pooped and did some wing stretches.

I left her about 8:15am and did a quick check for DC but couldn’t find him so I headed over to the Medley Center. There was nobody there and I had to get a move on as I have to be somewhere later this morning. When I got home home to Seneca Towers neither Billie or Seth were around. I ended my watch at 9am after spending most of it with Beauty-she always makes me smile don’tcha know! 🙂

Check out my videos by clicking the links below-lots of flying snippets in the first video

https://youtu.be/JaoTGGAd3J8

https://youtu.be/ZLU9JLNdW_s

https://youtu.be/VV2ffD8vVQo

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