By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Today I got to see three of the Rochester Falcons, Beauty, Dot.ca and the KP Falcon.  Joyce reported seeing Pigott this evening, so that made four seen today.  No Orion sightings.

Other Watchers were downtown, so I decided to keep watch at Kodak Park (KP) for awhile this morning.  I knew that a tweet would be sent if anything happened downtown, so I decided to cover KP in case the falcon I saw there yesterday showed up.  In the two hours I was there , I saw two Kestrel’s hunting, an adult Bald Eagle soaring high above, and heard a young RTH whining for his/her parents attention.  It is really so peaceful there and the amount of different birds and wildlife is incredible.  For two hours, I did not see a Peregrine Falcon.  Dana stopped by for a short visit before heading home.

After two hours of seeing no sign of the KP Peregrine, I headed downtown for a look.  All of the Watchers had left by this time.  Beauty was still on the Frontier Communication Tower (FCT) underneath the platform.  I then drove around the downtown area to try to find another falcon.  No luck.  Back to FCT.  Beauty was not where I left her.  After circling the tower, I finally found her on the south side on the SE box under the platform.  I tweeted out her position and told Shaky he could probably get a good view of her from PanCam (Camera #1).

At 2:00 pm, Beauty ee-chupped softly and then took off heading south.  I got back into my car and followed.  Shaky tweeted that Beauty was back in the nest box before I arrived on the Broad St Bridge (BSB).  Yep, there she was and above her at the base of the SE wing was Dot.ca.  About this time, I was joined by Watcher Diana R.  We enjoyed chatting while watching B&DC and all the birds on the river below the bridge.  So much activity down there today!  There were two Great Blue Herons, a Green Heron and two Cormorants (an adult and a juvie I believe) among oodles of other birds. Diana left and a family approached asking about the falcons.  They were very excited that they could see Beauty and Dot.ca.  🙂

It was very quiet after they left and both B&DC seemed to be settled down, so I decided to head home for dinner and to catch the end of the Bills game.  Go Bill!  (Sorry about that.) lol

Of course I couldn’t go home without checking KP one last time.  I arrived there around 3:00 pm and was very happy to see Peregrine sitting on the railing in front of the red door on the east stack.  This bird seemed larger than KPT.  A very bright white breast, with feathers fluffed out, kind of like Mariah’s dust mop look.  🙂  I really had a feeling this was a female and not the small KPT I was used to seeing there.  The Watchers have always had a feeling that there were two falcons here.  I’ve seen what I believe to be two different Peregrines, but never at the same time.  I believe it was MAK that saw two at once earlier this year.

I quickly parked my car and let everyone know there was a falcon here.  The Peregrine then jumped down from the railing to the landing in front of the red door.  She ran to the end of the landing and stopped and then ran again out onto the catwalk that crossed over to the building that held the old Scrape that Unity and Archer used.  This running reminded me so much of Orion.  He loves to run too!  Dana and Lou joined me and we spotted the falcon further out on the catwalk in front of a ladder laying on the floor of the catwalk.

The Peregrine remained there looking in our direction (south).  At 3:30 pm, I said my goodbyes to Dana and Lou and headed out.

I am so excited that there are Peregrines (maybe two) being seen at KP. I will definitely be keeping my eyes to the sky from now on!

Here is a link to my Shutterbug album with pics from today:  No sign on needed.  Enjoy!

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