By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was partly cloudy with a temperature of 62 (F) 17 (C)

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Starting with last nights sighting of Seneca Towers juvies. As is the usual case I saw the boys fly by as I was doing PT at my living room window. I went out to the west side balcony but they were gone. I resumed and finished my exercises then I went back out to the balcony to find a falcon on the Hawkeye (HE) nest box railing. Soon after another falcon flew in and the railing bird joined him in some talon tag over the river and HE and then they were gone.

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This morning I started my watch at 5:15am with Beauty on the southeast corner of the 5 Star Bank. She flew off to the west 5 minutes later so I drove over to the Court St. bridge (CSB) to join Dan.

Dan said it was Rachel on the jail tower (JCT) who had been there since he started his watch at 5:10am. 5 minutes later she flew south out of view.

I had walked over to check the river for the herons who usually hunt between the Court St. and Broad St. bridges. The river has flooded from recent rains and the water was running too fast for them so I didn’t see any. As I was returning to the south side of the CSB to join Dan I spotted Ontario flying after a gull near the locks. He thumped it 3 or 4 times before turning back to fly over by the Rundell library. I kept yelling to Dan about it and then I saw that he was watching Rachel stooping down into the river between the bridges. Then both juvies were taking turns diving down and back up north of the Broad St. bridge several times before they disappeared from sight. It was fantastic to see! Lil O ended up on the JCT briefly then he flew west.

Ontario was next seen flying north of Legacy Tower. He flew out from the east side of it and landed momentarily on the west side roof near Archer’s corner.

That would be the last I saw of the kids today. Dan was ready to leave at 6:30am so I went in search of our beloved falcons. 20 minutes later I spotted the Beautyful one from the Andrews St. bridge (ASB)-she was on the platform railing east side of the Frontier Communications tower (FCT). She had her back to me from there so I drove over to City Hall on Fitzhugh St. to share space with her.

She was mostly preening during the time she was there. She started looking intently to the south towards the Powers building and then she flew that way. I caught up to her as she was on the front ledge of the Powers nest box as seen from the ASB.

I went looking for the rest of the family but had no luck, when I returned Beauty was now on the Powers cam.

I ended my watch at 7:30am smiling because not only did I see the juvies but saw them in action! 🙂

Click on the links below to see snippet videos of  last night and this mornings watch

https://youtu.be/sMRM5zhibB4

https://youtu.be/sWqWc_mhr8Q

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