By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was overcast, dark and dreary with a temperature of 67 (F) 19 (C)

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I was out last night and didn’t get out to check on the Seneca Towers (ST) falcons until 8:20pm. As I stepped out on the balcony and looked up I spotted a juvie flying just before it disappeared to the north end of the building. At 8:34pm I spotted a large bird on the roof of Kodak Park but can’t say if it was a falcon due to distance and darkness as the sun was setting behind the clouds.

I began my watch this morning at 5:15am finding Beauty on one of her favorite perches, the northeast cube of the Frontier Communications tower (FCT).

Beauty was preening on and off, still working on those molting feathers and she did a lot of looking around. At 6:14am she flew off the cube and back to the FCT landing on the platform where she was eating something.

I decided to go check in with Dan on the Court St. bridge while the Beautyful one ate. He told me that he watched Dot.ca (DC) stoop off the Spectrum tower successfully taking his small package over to the 2nd I-beam of OCSR to eat and then he flew to the Powers building. I could see him on the east side railing and then he left while we weren’t paying attention.

It was time to check on my river friends. I found a Great Blue Heron hiding in the bushes on the west side of the gorge south side of the CSB-it flew over to a log below the locks in the rapidly flowing waters. Mama duck and two kiddies sticking close to her. On the north side of the bridge I found 2 adult Black-crowned Night Herons. One of them was grabbing either bugs on the surface of the water or very small minnows-couldn’t tell which but you can see it on my snippet video.

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Dan got bored and decided to leave around 6:45am so I went back over to the FCT where I thought I had Rachel on the drum eating. I found DC on a crossbeam below the southeast cube with a full crop. Turns out it was Beauty eating on the drum as she finished eating and flew off to the northeast cube.

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At the time, I still thought it was Rachel and kept saying to myself boy, that looks like Beauty and I knew I saw her fly there so I checked from every angle looking for her as I also heard whining. I’m still not convinced that Rachel wasn’t up in that tower somewhere but if she was I couldn’t find her.

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I left Beauty and DC to digest their food and was hoping to catch the ST falcons around. Well I didn’t find any juvies but I found Seth on the Hawkeye nest box ring with his back to me and Billie on a northwest corner of the roof. Bad lighting today made for mostly bad pics but got a couple half way decent ones.

Seth made his way over to the opposite corner from where he had been where there was a swarm of some kind of bugs flying near him.

I ended my watch looking at both of their backs at about 8:30am. Unfortunately, I saw no juvies on watch today but I saw all 4 resident Rochester Peregrine Falcons and that’s more than enough to make me smile! 🙂

Check out the links below to see my snippet videos

https://youtu.be/BeMrYdWj_kg

https://youtu.be/jfF7znI7waQ

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