By Rochester Falcon watcher MAK

Gee it had been 2 weeks since I saw a falcon and I was so hoping to find one when I returned to our fair city after being out of town. I was NOT disappointed as I landed on the Broad St. bridge(BSB) and looked over  at Times Square,the jail tower,Mercury and then I spotted not 1 but 2 pefas on the 2nd ibeam west corner of OCSR! Could this really be Dot.ca(DC) and the Beautyful one together within a couple feet or less from each other? I quickly went down to the hole(Aqueduct St.) to get A closer look. After taking pics and zooming on my LCD screen I could positively ID it was the happy couple.

For one solid hour these once battling pefas perched with each other-a first for me to see! Funny how things have a way of working out if we just wait long enough. Beauty preened for most of that hour while DC kept his head cranked most of the time in the direction of the Times Square building and the nest box where he and Beauty hatched a very cute little eyas. After the hour was up Beauty flew directly to the nest box and DC remained on OCSR keeping an eye on his family.

I stayed a few more minutes and then made my way over to the Brighton site(BS) to look for Pigott. Again I was not disappointed and as a bonus she was on a lower west side roof making for some good shots of her.

For about 15 minutes I watched her head move practically non-stop from side to side and up and down. She was definitely looking for a meal. There were some birds in the trees below her as I could hear them and so could she! At one point I heard a Cardinal and because they are my favorite songbird I sooo hoped she didn’t get it. She flew off right above me to the west and circled right back around to the same roof landing on the corner this time.

Again about 15 minutes later she flew off again this time she swooped back and forth a few times above the trees and then she flew lower and lower to the grass to the right of me only a couple inches above the ground. It was so cool and then Miss Pigott returned to a north facing window ledge on the same lower west side roof.

After 10 minutes passed she took off from the ledge flew around to the back of the building and returned to the same lower roof top. She just could not stir up any birds for catching a meal. I shared space with Miss Pigott for another half hour and then I had to say good bye and run some errands.  In my travels I stopped by KP but the only sighting I had was that of a fox. He crossed the road in front of me and by the time I pulled over to the shoulder and got my trusty camera out he was behind a fence and staring at me. He probably heard Led Zeppelin playing on the radio and stopped to check it out! lol

I had a wonderful watch for my first day back on duty in a while, having seen 3 of  our Rochester Peregrine Falcons. And as always they put a big ole smile on this watchers face! 🙂

Click on the links below for a photo album and 2 videos-for those of you who are used to Kodak Gallery it was taken over by Shutterfly. Simply click the link then click the view album box on the Shutterfly page and then you can either watch a slide show or view the pics on your own. Either way I hope you enjoy the experience!

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWr2o

http://youtu.be/vzc1CJ1UMSQ

http://youtu.be/veMrvQgEnkA

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