By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The temperature when I left Seneca Towers was 41 (F) 4 (C) degrees-it had rained during the night and some scattered showers lingered

As I pulled over in my spot on East Ridge Rd. I saw Seth in his spot on the north window ledge. As I tweeted it out Billie flew in and joined him, coming to rest at the opposite end and they were facing each other.

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Seth soon departed to the north and Buffalo Billie followed half a minute later. They never returned so I moseyed off to downtown.

As I stopped on the Andrew’s St. Bridge (ASB) I could see a falcon on the base of Mercury. I messed around with the pic since it was so dark. I thought a little color would be nice during this dark part of winter.

I quickly took off for the Broad St. bridge (BSB) to find that it was Beauty on Mercury. I checked out the river while I was there-it was low, exposing all the flat rocks, but no birds were anywhere in the river.

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The Beautyful one flew northwest at about 8:15am-I had a suspicion she went to the northwest side of OCSR.

I drove around to the Radisson Hotel by Main St. to check the north side ledge of the OCSR elevator shaft for Dot.ca (DC) but he wasn’t up there. When I checked the south side from Bragdon Place he wasn’t there either. Back to the ASB to see that Beauty had indeed gone to the top I-beam northwest side of OCSR. I went over to State St. to share space with her for a few minutes.

I made one more trip around downtown to look for DC but he was a no-show today. I left for the Medley Centre where I found Big Frankie on the glass peak at 8:50am. A few minutes later, Larry reported seeing a falcon at the Brighton location.

She was on the hunt, but there were slim pickin’s today as I didn’t see any prey birds around-she flew off to the southeast at 8:57am and didn’t return.

That was the end of my watch as when I got home to Seneca Towers nobody was there. I parked my car at 9:15am and called it a day with a smile! 🙂

Click on the link below to view today’s snippet video

https://youtu.be/yDIkSCzkoMY

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