By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

A blustery, overcast morning after a dusting of snow overnite and a temperature of 22 (F) -6 (C)

I’m pretty sure I found Seth with his back to me on the north window ledge to start my morning watch. I could see that he had a feather stuck on his cere-we call those a fascinator.

I left him after a few minutes and headed downtown where I found Beauty on the Legacy Tower from Elm St. She was on a northwest corner and seemed to be in hunt mode.

Unbeknownst to me, Dot.ca (DC) was up there in further on the ledge where I couldn’t see him. He walked out into view and ended up next to the Beautyful one for a minute or two before disappearing to her right where I couldn’t see him again. They appeared to have bowed to each other at one point.

Soon after DC vanished he flew off the ledge to the northwest and right after that Beauty pooped.

About 5 minutes later, Beauty dove off the corner, then resurfaced to fly around the north face of Xerox and headed southeast from there out of my field of vision.

I left for the Medley Centre at that time around 8:50am. When I was making my way along the south side of the mall I spotted Big Frankie on a white vent cap over the roof that the carousel is located in the mall. She was definitely in hunt mode.

At 9:22am Frankie took off and flew east over the mall-I followed along and lost sight of her until I made my way around to the northeast end of the mall where Sears is located. It was then that I saw another larger bird being chased by a Big Frankie-a Red-tailed Hawk. She dove on it a couple times over the Kentucky Fried Chicken store on East Ridge Rd and then I lost sight of them to the north.

Neither one of them returned and so I was on my way home to Seneca Towers where no falcons were in sight. I ended my watch just before 10am smiling after seeing some action out of the big girl, Frankie! 🙂

Click on the link below to see today’s snippets

https://youtu.be/v90m29AgpuI

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