By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was breezy with mostly cloudy skies and a temperature of  65 (F) 18 (C)

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Dan wasn’t out for a watch this morning so I checked the east side of downtown first and found Beauty on the southeast corner of the 5 Star Bank from near Midtown Manor. It was still pretty dark out when she flew over to the RGE antenna. Rachel and Ontario came streaking in just before Beauty took off and began their ballet in the sky.

I moved down to Broad St. across from 5 Star Bank to watch the show as they tore up the sky over Xerox and Legacy Tower.

Around 6am all flying stopped after Beauty flew off with her kids. I went over to the Strong Museum of Play parking lot for a view of the east side but only saw some nice gardens. I caught up with the Beautyful one on the northeast corner of the Powers railing-watching from Aqueduct St. at Main St. Larry tweeted out from the Court St. bridge (CSB) around 6:15am that he had a falcon on Xerox and one on Times Square. Then he had juvies flying around Xerox. I drove over and joined Larry and Zeke around 6:30am.

I checked the river and spotted a Black-crowned Night Heron (BCNH) over by the Broad St. bridge and then it flew over by the library where there was also a Great Blue Heron (GBH).

Rachel and Ontario started sky dancing again over Xerox and riding the therms. They really are fantastic flyers!

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When they disappeared I checked the river again and alerted Larry of the BCNH on a log very close to the Court St. bridge. He entertained us as he preened and pulled out some feathers. Of course there was a GBH near by and I also checked on the ducklings.

Around 7am we watched Ontario start a long impressive stoop from north of the Broad St. bridge over the CSB barely clearing the railing and go for a duck near the locks south of the bridge. He was unsuccessful and ended up over on the Jail tower. Beauty was still on Powers.

Larry had to get going and Beauty showed up on the base of Mercury as Lil O flew east from the tower.

I ended my downtown watch around 7:30am as Larry reported seeing 3 falcons flying over by Xerox where he was watching from his apartment in Tower 280. As I was making my way down St. Paul Street I spotted a falcon on the south side of the railing at the Hawkeye nest site. It was gone when I was able to finally pull over. A Turkey Vulture flew in and landed momentarily on the Hawkeye stack.

Making my way further down St. Paul St. I saw a falcon on the west side railing of Seneca Towers but once again it was gone when I got pulled over. I went over to the Northridge Church parking lot to check the north end of the building but nobody was there. I was watching a couple bumble bees looking for nectar on a delicately flowered bush next to me.

I had to give a ride to a friend and as we were approaching the Veterans Memorial Bridge on route 104 I saw Seth stoop down toward the river. When we got on the bridge he resurfaced right across from us and started flying parallel to us just above the railing. He was even with us as we were traveling 55 mph and then he disappeared. Wow, that surely put a great big smile on my face! 🙂

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

https://youtu.be/T7I7Uur0LeI

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