By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Not a bad start to the day at 47 (F) 8 (C) although a short light rain shower came down soon after I arrived downtown.

Dan was on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) when I arrived at 6:05am and he left when it started raining-he doesn’t like to watch from inside his car. I was informed by Donna that Beauty was in the nest box and at about 6:15am Dot.Ca (DC) showed up landing at the northeast wing of the Times Square building (TSB) briefly and then he went to the nest box. DC flew to the Mercury money bag (MMB) soon after and some time after that Beauty flew to the base of Mercury without me seeing.

Thanks to Donna who was helping me out on the nest box comings and goings. I must also thank Joyce and Annette for their tweets this morning as well. It’s a great help when you’re by yourself trying to watch more than one falcon. I went to the hole to have the best view of them. So Beauty started whining to DC and he obliged by flying down to mate with her. Beauty remained on the base and DC went somewhere out of view-probably hunting for breakfast.

A few minutes later the Beautyful one flew to the northeast wing, walked to the back of it I assume looking for cached food as this is a favorite food cupboard for these two. Her crop was pretty depleted and she came back up to the front of the ledge with no snack.

She dropped down to the deck and at 7:00am DC showed up with food leaving it for her and then flying across the way to the MMB. I went back up to the BSB and Beauty managed to sneak over to the base of Mercury while I was watching DC.  She landed on the northwest corner which is the only spot not visible from the bridge. Donna let me know she left the nest box so I went back to the hole on a hunch that she was over there eating and sure enough that’s where I found her. DC flew to his egg in the nest box a couple minutes later to sit on it according to Donna and he only stayed a minute or so before flying back to the MMB.

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About 7:20am DC stooped off the back of Mercury down into the river but returned without a catch to the MMB. Beauty then took off with her leftovers and while I tried to keep track of her DC  left. I took a ride to the Andrews St. Bridge (ASB) to check the north end of their territory and spotted Beauty on the top ibeam of the OCSR near the elevator shaft so I believe she probably cached her food up there. She took off right after I found her. Donna let me know Beauty was at the nest box so I decided to go to Brighton (BS) looking for DC whom I couldn’t locate.  I made it to BS just before the 8 o’clock hour and found Pigott by herself on the northwest corner of the west extension.

I shared space with Miss Pigott for the next hour and a half in which time she preened,scratched, stretched and practically turned her head 360 degrees in the process.

Pigott also pooped and when I checked my LCD camera screen it looked yellow to me. I’ve only seen white poop so I’m hoping there’s nothing wrong with her.

On the larger computer screen it doesn’t look as yellow so maybe the lighting made it look that way.  Larry stopped by on his way to work to say hi and then he was off at some point while I was there. I returned to downtown about 9:30am checking from both the BSB and ASB I didn’t find any falcons but Joyce and Donna let me know Beauty was on her egg so I ended my watch at that time. Our Rochester Peregrine falcons are in a normal pattern and all is well in the PEFA world here in Rochester at the moment and that my falcon loving friends makes me smile!  🙂

Check out the links below for more pics and some videos from my watch

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWrduA

http://youtu.be/cWs98-bVqsI
http://youtu.be/nnBKkq0pUpQ
http://youtu.be/ff2hWSn-awU
http://youtu.be/C7dQchv67zc

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