By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was partly cloudy with a temperature of 66 (F) 19 (C)

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I started my watch with Dan on the Court St. bridge (CSB) at 5am but had to go home to get my phone as I forgot it. Oy! I was back by about 5:23am and at that time Dan said he had seen all four falcons while I was gone. Ei joined us at 5:30am as Ontario was eating under the northeast wing of Times Square (TSB). Dot.ca (DC) and Beauty teamed up to go after a bird near the Powers building. We had Rachel on the jail tower, Ontario on TSB wing ledge, DC on a wing ring and Beauty over at Powers.

At about 6am all four of them took off from their spots and converged to give us an aerial show to be remembered. When all was said and done one of them was on Widows Walk (WW) and a few minutes later DC brought in food and landed on OCSR top I-beam southeast side with the Beautyful one right on his tail. She tried to grab it from him then flew off. Ontario appeared on the base of Mercury.

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Beauty and DC ended up over on the southeast corner of Powers-he was on the top railing and she was below him on the second railing. Around 6:30am I noticed a Great Blue Heron in the river on the north side of the Broad St. bridge hunting near a picnic table that was on a flat rock over there. Ontario went to the wing on TSB again and then not sure which adult had the food but one of them delivered it to Ontario under the wing. Rachel flew up there too.

At 7am Ei, Dan and I headed over to the hole for the Watchers Weekend breakfast. Joyce, Carol, Kathy, Carol (Lukka) joined us and a few minutes later Lisa, Linda (Braveheart), Shaky and Jeanne came by. The next bunch that joined us were Lynne and Bob, Linda and Craig and Larry brought Zeke. A bit later Randy, Brian, Carla, Carrie, Pat and Kat Nagel came to round out all the watchers who participated in this years festivities. Carla brought a delicious Carrot Cake all nicely decorated.

The falcons did some flying for us on and off but after 10am or so it was quiet time. Rachel went to the Crossroads building, Ontario to the well wall and Beauty was on the Wilder green strip briefly until Lil O flew in and knocked her off. We did a toast to Charlotte, Genesee, Seabreeze, Cadence and the juvie that was found in the Seneca Towers parking lot and rescued then taken to the vet this past week.

The rest of the morning and afternoon was spent socializing amongst the watchers and dodging rain drops. Many laughs were shared and after eating pizza provided by GVAS (thank you) the rain drove us all out of the hole. Everyone left for the evening with smiles across our faces! 🙂

Click on the link below to check out my snippet video of the day

https://youtu.be/RYTZtzBZtSI

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