By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was a very pleasant morning with sunshine and a temperature of 58 (F) 14 (C)

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Happy Birthday America!

When I joined Dan on the Court St. bridge (CSB) at 5am Rachel was under the northeast wing and Ontario under the southeast wing of Times Square (TSB). It was still quite dark out but thanks to the new lights on those ledges you can see the falcons.

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Rachel went up on the light then down quickly and started doing some sort of happy dance for a minute or so and then she flew out and over to the southwest wing ledge. She wasn’t there for long as she flew off and came back in to knock Ontario off the northeast ledge taking his place. He flew over to the Powers building near the cam.

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Around 5:30am Rachel flew over to the Spectrum Communications Tower (SCT) then off to the west leaving our field of vision over Cornhill. Next we had both juvies flying over and landing on the SCT. Beauty was on the Powers cam.

Ontario flew off about 15 minutes later and went after a duck near Cornhill out of view. He came back and landed on top of the Freddy-Sue bridge arch. I’ve never seen a falcon on that bridge. These juvies are certainly giving us some different tendencies from past broods. He didn’t stay there for long and joined his sister on the SCT once more. Beauty flew in landing on the upper part of the tower where she could keep an eye on her kids.

The juvies flew off together and did some talon tagging all around the tower and Cornhill area. Rachel returned to the tower while Ontario stooped on something over Cornhill.

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I watched Ontario return to the tower but we couldn’t see him from where we were on the CSB so I walked down by the Blue Cross Arena and found him.

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Right after I located him everybody flew off heading towards me and then I saw Dot.ca (DC) with food. I lost them all behind the Arena and when I walked back up to rejoin Dan, Larry and Zeke were there as well. DC had gone to OCSR top I-beam south corner and Beauty to the Powers cam. We had no visual of the kids but they were last seen near TSB. DC stooped straight down OCSR out of view a couple minutes later.

I always get antsy when I don’t know where the kids are so I left Dan and Larry around 6:45am to go in search of. Carol joined them soon after I left. Larry tweeted out that the juvies were on the Jail Communications Tower (JCT) so I drove over to Troup St. to watch them.

They were so cute next to each other and you could see the big size difference with Rachel being the larger one on the left. Rachel flew off and Carol reported that she went to Widows Walk so I went first to the parking lot next to TSB but she had her back to me so I went over to Fitzhugh St. where I found a robin across from her.

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I no sooner got settled when Rachel took off. Joyce reported that she had Rachel with her brother on opposite arms of the JCT. I joined Joyce, who was on Troup St.

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A minute later they both flew north out of view. Joyce went over to the CSB and I went looking for the kids. I found the Beautyful one on Widows Walk and Ontario was on Irving Place singing up a storm. He had food in his crop so I don’t know why he was whining so much. I saw feathers floating so I wondered if maybe Rachel was behind him on the roof where I couldn’t see her from the parking lot next to TSB.

Lil O walked further down the roof before flying off to the north quickly leaving my field of vision.

Beauty then flew off and ended up on the northeast corner of Irving Place. Just like her son before her she kept looking down at the birds that were flitting around below.

I ended a very active fledge watch at 7:45am smiling as Beauty was looking at me when I pulled away! 🙂

Click on the links below to view today’s videos

https://youtu.be/07C53Sj8r3A

https://youtu.be/aoxR5hJPI_c

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