By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Sunrise at 6:44 am.  Sunset at 5:58 pm.  Temps in the teens.  Overcast.  Light snow.  OK, I’m ready for Spring please!

Kodak Park first.  No Falcons found there, but two adult Red-tailed Hawks were hanging out with each other.  (11:30 am)

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I arrived at the BS location close to noon.  At first I couldn’t find Pigott.  She arrived at 12:20 pm, landing on a window on the east side, two below the tree ledge.

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At 12:54 pm, Pigott took off heading east fast.  She did not vocalize.  It didn’t take her long to return and she wasn’t alone.  At 1:00 pm Pigott returned and Dot.ca was right behind her.  They both landed on the east end extension.  Pigott on the left and Dot.ca on the right.  They looked like bookends up there.

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While I was there, they both went off on tandem hunts to the east.  Also, Dot.ca went after a gull that got a little too close.  The gull was screaming as it neared the building and screaming when Dot.ca went after it over the east end parking lot.  The gull got out of there as fast as it could!

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I had to end my watch at 3:00 pm, so I headed downtown to search for Beauty.  From the Andrew St Bridge, I finally found her on the southeast corner of the Federal Building.  I went to tweet it out and found that my phone battery was dead.

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While I was watching Beauty, I was parked on the Andrew St Bridge, next to a very large pothole!  They are starting to get big enough to swallow a bus!!!

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There were a bunch of Crows in the park next to me and they were very noisy.  Beauty finally had enough of them and stooped low over the park and the river.  She continued south, scattering pigeons in all directions.  I watched her turn back towards me and up into the OCSR elevator shaft.

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It was time for me to end my watch after seeing all three Rochester Falcons safe and sound.

Goodnight everyone!

By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Back to overcast, dark and cold conditions this morning with a starting temperature of 15 (F) -9 (C) and we are not to go much higher than that for a high today

My falcon watching time is short these days as I have a lot going on but I’m thankful I am getting out at all to share time and space with our beloved falcons. Beauty made it easy for me today-I found her at 7am on the OCSR building top ibeam near the south corner.

I parked by the Radisson Hotel near Main St. to get the best angle on her and was able to see that she had a bulge in her crop so I knew that she had eaten earlier. It does my heart good to know that they’ve eaten in this cold weather. I hung out with her for about 40 minutes in which time she preened and napped off and on. A quick check around did not produce a Dot.Ca (DC) sighting so I headed out for the Brighton Site (BS).

No luck finding him or Pigott at home at BS-after waiting about 10 minutes I went back downtown only to find the Beautyful one in the same spot as I left her on OCSR. Unfortunately, I couldn’t hang out with Beauty but she did give me a falcon fix this morning and for that I could certainly muster up a smile as I ended my watch around 8:30am! 🙂

One link below for a video of Beauty

http://youtu.be/JpbSQV2x9ro

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Sunrise at 6:46 am and Sunset at 5:58 pm.

We had a little reprieve from the frigid temperatures today.  The temps made it into the 30’s (F) and the sun was out for much of my watch which started at about 11 a.m.  My first stop was Russell Station.  No Falcons there, but I did see a juvenile Bald Eagle fly by just off shore over Lake Ontario, heading west.  I checked Charlotte, and Hawkeye.  No sign of Billy at either of those locations.  (11:26 am)

Downtown, I found Dot.ca on the OCSR, north side top IBeam near the north corner.

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From the Andrew St Bridge, I saw a large group of Red-Breasted Mergansers (RBM) swimming on the river between me and the Main St Bridge.  Always good to see them doing well.

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I went to search for Beauty and found her on the Times Square Bldg on the northeast wing ledge.  (12:24 pm)

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There was no place to park on the Broad St Bridge because of the car show that was in town, so I ended up watching Beauty from Aqueduct St (aka the hole).  I stayed there for over an hour.  Since there was not activity, I headed over to the BS location where I found Pigott on the east end of the building on the corner above the tree ledge.  (1:57 pm)

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Soon after I arrived, Pigott took off and flew around the south side of the building heading west.  I caught up with her, finding her on the northwest corner of the northeast extension.

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At 2:50 pm, I saw a Red-Tailed Hawk fly over the building and so did Pigott.  She took off and chased the RTH out of her territory.

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After chasing the hawk away, Pigott returned to the southwest corner of the west extension.

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Crows were cawing loudly to the west of the building and Pigott does not like the Crows anywhere near her building.  So off she went to chase the Crows out of her territory.  She returned, landing on the southeast corner of the southwest extension.

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Pigott walked back on the roof and I lost sight over her.  I assume she may have been looking for cached food, even though she already had a full crop.

I left Pigott at a little after 3:00 pm and drove through downtown one more time before heading home.  At 3:25 pm, I spotted Beauty in the same spot I had left her, on the Times Square Bldg, NE wing ledge.  Dot.ca was no longer on the north side of the OCSR.  It was time to end my watch.  I just missed seeing fellow watcher Larry O, who arrived after I left.

Looks like the frigid temperatures will be returning to Rochester tomorrow, high 19 degrees (F) with a couple inches of snow expected.  Keep warm everyone!  Goodnight!

By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The sun rose and shone bright for about 20 minutes and then the sky went overcast with a temperature of 16 (F) -9 (C) and very little wind

It was a half hour into my watch before Beauty showed herself this morning. On my second trip to the east side I spotted her eating on the north side of Bausch & Lomb (B&L).

About 5 minutes later she stopped eating and was looking around-I thought perhaps she saw Dot.Ca (DC). I was parked in my spot on Broad St. between Midtown and Xerox and could see the Times Square building (TSB) so I grabbed my binocs and sure enough DC was under the northeast wing.

After a couple minutes Beauty got back to work on her breakfast, and let me tell you the feathers were a flying everywhere!

I expected DC to fly over and join her but he never did while I was watching. I left them to it and headed to the Brighton site (BS) arriving there around 8:10am to find 8 wild turkeys picking at the grass and running around.

Remember to click on my pics to see full version

Next I found Pigott who was also letting the feathers fly as she was eating too up on the northeast corner of the northeast extension.

I stayed with her only a brief time as I had to make it another quick watch. I returned to downtown to find that DC was gone from the TSB. Beauty was on the base of Mercury as Shaky (TY)  had tweeted and she was eating.

The Beautyful one decided she had enough and took her leftovers up on the green base of Mercury for safe keeping.

She then proceeded to do some feaking and cleaned herself up. She turned around and back, had a look to make sure the coast was clear before flying off to the north.

I drove over to the Radisson Hotel at Main St. to check the OCSR elevator shaft and found DC on the south side ledge and Beauty on the top ibeam north corner of OCSR.

It was a short but sweet watch as I saw all 3 Rochester Peregrine Falcons and the 2 girls had a nice meal too! Left downtown at 8:44am ending my watch with a smile! 🙂

Click on the links below to see my photo album and 4 videos from todays watch

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWqjV4

http://youtu.be/o84vNvUdErc
http://youtu.be/5CaJwPEFpfo
http://youtu.be/z04qW6_iPOw
http://youtu.be/4QIvf2G5NPc

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