By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

First things first here-I want to say YAHOO as Beauty finally laid an egg around 2 :30pm this afternoon!  🙂 And now for our regular scheduled report. lol

It was pretty balmy when I left for my morning watch at 6:00am. 59 degrees (F) 15 (C) and a strong wind out of the south.

Beauty was on cam 4 when I arrived downtown so I parked in the hole to watch.   Dot.Ca (DC) arrived 10 minutes later, landing on the deck. He didn’t stay up there long as I watched him fly over to the Mercury money bag (MMB). Again he flew off after 10 minutes going to the northeast wing. Beauty flew out of her nest box to the base of Mercury and DC flew down to mate with her.

He returned to the northeast wing of the Times Square building (TSB) briefly and then he vanished. Beauty stayed on the base of Mercury.

I drove up to the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) to have a look around for DC and found Dan in his lawn chair. He said he arrived 5 minutes after me and saw the mating. Beauty flew off and went into a stoop 15 minutes later and came back into view landing at the northeast wing of TSB where she stayed until 7:00am. DC flew in going to the deck and Beauty went down to join him at the nest box then he flew up to the northeast wing.

<Beauty  DC> Make sure to click on the pics to see the full version

DC flew off and circled the TSB and landed back at the wing and 5 minutes later flew south in a hurry. He came back into view over the river near OCSR and continued to the east side hovering above Xerox and seemed to be patrolling the territory. We lost sight of him behind Xerox and then Dan had to leave. The Beautyful one was still at the nest box so I took a drive to check the east side but came up empty for DC.

I left for the Brighton site around 7:45am to check there. When I arrived I found Pigott on the front edge of the cubby on the west side.

She had her back to me at first and she was mostly preening for the better part of an hour until DC came flying in-then she started echupping like crazy and went to the back of the cubby where I couldn’t see her as he flew around the west side. DC went in the cubby with cached food he got from the roof above the cubby and they had an echup session that lasted a minute.

All was quiet and then DC shot out of there flying east out of view. 10 minutes later Miss Pigott flew out and landed on the roof above the cubby. She was walking back and forth up there.

Pigott

I drove to the back (south side) of the building and spotted DC on the southeast corner near the east extension. Less than a minute later he flew to the cubby and Pigott followed.

Pigott

By the time I got back around there was loud echupping coming from the cubby and seconds later DC flew out. It was quiet for 10 minutes so I took a ride and found DC on the roof above the east end of the south side vent. Minutes later he flew to the roof above the cubby,grabbed a little cached snack and took it to the west end of the south vent to eat.

DC

When he had his fill he took the leftovers to the cubby for Pigott. There was a lot of vocalizing and then DC flew out circled above and left the area.

DC

I gave it a few minutes and when he didn’t return I left for downtown. Upon arrival I found DC up under the northeast wing and Beauty in the nest box.

Even though UT was not seen I have a feeling he’s still out there lurking and watching the happenings of his lovely lady and DC. I ended my watch at 10:00am with a smile on my face! 🙂

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