By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The morning started out with snow flurries and a temperature of 27 degrees fahrenheit(-3 celcius). What a difference 10 degrees makes-it almost felt like spring out there! lol

On my way down Broad St. near the Plymouth Ave. intersection I thought the dark behind the Times Square area looked interesting so I pulled over and photographed it.

I arrived on the Broad St. Bridge at 7:05am but didn’t get any action until 25 minutes later when the Aqueduct pigeons came streaking up from their night time roost under the bridge. Only about 30 feet in front of me they crossed the bridge in their usual fast fashion and Beauty came quickly out of nowhere and chased them to the south. About 5 of them split off from the main group and went up to the roof of the Blue Cross Arena and landed, the rest of them vanished into the dark snowy sky along with Beauty. I waited about 20 minutes for her to resurface and when she didn’t I went in search of. I found the Beautyful one within 10 minutes as she was perched on the east side of the arch above where the old Mariah and Kaver nest site was on the Kodak Office Tower.

The snow certainly makes it a challenge for my camera to focus but dark conditions and long distances work against us too! All 3 were in play today as I was parked on State St. which I feel is the best spot to observe the south side of the Kodak tower.

I shared space with Beauty until after 9:00am as she spent the whole time watching over her territory. A lot of the time she was looking at something below her and she also did some preening.

I left her to it and drove over to the Brighton Site arriving there about 9:30am. I was pleasantly surprised to find both BST and the elusive Miss Pigott present. They were both on the top section of south facing windows on the east extension. She was near the corner where the main building meets the extension and he was at the other end-both had their backs to me.

Click the pics to see full version <P BST>

Pigott was her usual active self and BST- well it goes without saying that he was sleepy! lol While I was there Pigott moved around on the ledge,tried to bring up a pellet 3 times and kept an eye on the territory. BST never moved until just before I left as he did a little preening which wore him out so he went back to sleep.

Pigott

BST

I left Brighton to check on Beauty before ending my watch. I found her right where I left her on the Kodak Office Tower looking as Beautyful as ever. Smiling-you bet for I saw all 3 of our Rochester Peregrine Falcons! 🙂

Click the links below for more pics and videos of Beauty,Pigott and BST

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWrVGg

http://youtu.be/3uzyoDl2HvQ
http://youtu.be/RHliJGH5Nfo
http://youtu.be/zj_e0pmNffc
http://youtu.be/6hy5IUiqNGI
http://youtu.be/rk1LeC4CM74
http://youtu.be/uNpWWGGCh_8

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