By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Happy New Year to all the Rochester Falcon Fans around the globe!

After a 15 minute wait on the Broad St. Bridge(BSB) for Beauty to show her Beautyful self the year started out with a pigeon chase upriver. And that was the end of it- I lost her in the pre-sunrise sky to the south of the city in Cornhill.  I looked around and with not a sign of her made the call to go check the Brighton Site(BS). As I was approaching BS I spotted a falcon circling the building and as I drove in it disappeared on the east end. When I made my way around to that side of the building I  noticed a Peregrine on a window ledge 3 floors down from the roof tucked up tight to a column on the east extension. It was BST and he had his back to me.

I almost missed him and when I stopped to watch I could see that he was struggling to stay awake.

45 minutes later Pigott came flying in from the north as the snow shower that was falling  picked up in intensity and landed on the southeast corner  near the tree that grows up there on the roof.

There was no vocalization between them as BST was napping. Miss Pigott just perched up there not doing much of anything  for 30 minutes other than convincing herself to take cover over on a top window ledge near BST on the east extension.

I left them to it and returned to downtown to  search for Beauty. I looked everywhere including the elevator shaft but it was snowing too hard to see if she was up in there. So I ended my watch and went home until 12:30pm when it was time to return and meet the Rochester Falcon Flakes for our New Years toast on the BSB. Carol and Brian were there when I arrived and Beauty was on the top ibeam of OCSR.

Watchers that joined in the celebration are as follows:CarolP,Brian,Lynda and Tim,Dan,Jeanne,Suzanne and Don,KathyO,Dana and Lou,LarryO with his dog Harold,Shaky and Carrie,Lisa,Joyce and Steve and yours truly MAK.

As usual click on the pics for a larger version

We got a nice display from Beauty as she flew after a Red-tail Hawk over the Times Square building area and then returning to the OCSR building where she remained for the entire toast watch. I just love it when the falcons cooperate for our get togethers! It was fun hanging out in the cold with everyone and as you can see there were smiles from everyone!  🙂

Links for more pics and 2 videos are below-click them to view

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWrSSA

http://youtu.be/2qc4we44_ochttp://youtu.be/uq0ODyjFRrM

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