By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

I stepped out the house for the first time since last fall without a jacket on as it was 68 (F) 20 (C) mostly overcast with a brisk breeze (actually it was quite windy) and a cool sunrise as I drove down route 490

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Beauty was on her eggs when I left home and as arrived at 6:30am I scanned the area from the Broad St. bridge (BSB). I spotted a falcon on the Kodak Office launchpad. I took off to investigate and found it to be Dot.Ca (DC) in hunt mode. I parked on the north side of Kodak in the Harmco Plumbing supply store.

He didn’t stay for long as he flew off to the north going into stoop formation, vanishing quickly behind buildings. I waited a few minutes and when he didn’t return I headed back to the Times Square (TSB) area. I found DC on top of the Mercury money bag (MMB) with no food so he had missed whatever he stooped on over at KO.

A minute later Beauty flew from the nest box to the base of Mercury. DC looked down at her and promptly dropped off the money bag to mate with her at 7am.

DC went to the nest box as reported by Annette (TY) and Beauty started picking at a tiny bite sized morsel of leftover food. She managed to sneak off while I was tweeting so I took a ride to look around for her. When I got back Beauty was on the northeast wing ledge of the TSB so I went to the hole to share space with her.

The Beautyful one did some serious preening while up there and around 7:50am she spotted DC  and soon he joined her on the ledge before jumping up on her to mate once again.

DC then flew over to the MMB and a moment later Beauty flew over to circle DC then off to land on the deck and into the nest box.

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I drove up to the BSB to watch DC just before he took off east across the river going into a stoop before leaving my field of vision behind the Radisson Hotel.

I waited a bit and when he didn’t return I set out to the Brighton Site-arriving there at 8:15am I saw a falcon on the south side roof above the vent. I got all excited because I could see that it was an adult and I thought maybe it was Pigott but I soon determined that it was DC.

I started tweeting it out and when I looked up again he was gone. After a couple trips around the pot hole infested driveway with no sign of DC I went back downtown. I found DC on the lower back roof of TSB on the north side-he had food. I parked by Keybank in the hole to watch as he started filling the air with feathers from his prey after staring a pigeon with a death wish back away from the roof above him.

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DC picked at his beak a bit trying to get a feather off and then it was time to make a food delivery to his darlin’. He grabbed his prepared meal and flew to the deck with it.

Beauty promptly grabbed it and flew to the base of Mercury as I promptly flew up to the BSB where I could see the front of her and DC went into the nest box.

I saw a duck down on a cement thingie that stuck out from the bottom of the Thomson Reuters building-she flew off landing in the river.

Back to Beauty who finished up her meal and cached the leftovers on the green part of the base.

She feaked her beak trying to get some feathers off of it and then she decided to fly over to cam 1, so back to the hole I went to get a few parting shots as she looked like she was getting sleepy.

At 9:20am I ended my very busy watch, smiling after having spent time with our downtown Rochester Peregrine Falcon pair on this 14th day of April! 🙂

PS: although their tweets came too late, I want to thank Annette and NCA for trying to help me keep track of Beauty and DC

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

1 – 2 – 3 Eggs and counting!  🙂

Three eggs and temps close to 80 degrees today.  Springtime in Rochester has arrived.  Of course we won’t talk about later on this week when temperatures will drop again.

Saturday Afternoon – April 12, 2014

I didn’t have a whole lot of time.  My time is very limited for falcon watching right now.  But I get out when I can.  My route took me to Lake Ave near the Kodak Park Research Labs first.  While I was driving, heading south, I spotted an adult Peregrine Falcon flying overhead near the tall KP research lab building.  I quickly pulled over into the bus lane and was able to get one picture.  This is very close to the Seneca Tower Apartments (just across the river) where Dana has been seeing an adult falcon and where Billy had also been seen.  I lost sight of the falcon as it headed east across the river gorge.

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After checking the Seneca Towers Apts and Hawkeye and not finding any falcons, I headed towards downtown where I found fellow falcon watcher Dan S on the Broad St Bridge.  We stayed there for about an hour before Dan had to leave.  Beauty was on the nest box platform.

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Rfalconcam Watcher Donna texted me to let me know that Dot.ca (DC) was inside the nest box on the eggs, two at that time.  After Dan left, I moved down to Aqueduct St (aka the hole).  Dot.ca flew out of the nest box and he was kakking loudly.  From where I was parked, I could not see what DC was after, but I sure could hear him.  Whatever was bothering DC, didn’t seem to bother Beauty.  She continued to preen and look up now and then. After about 15 minutes, Dot.ca landed on top of the Mercury statue and Beauty walked into the nest box.  Rfalconcam Watcher Camp verified that Beauty was in the nest box.  Thanks Donna and Camp for your help yesterday.

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While Dan and I were on the Broad St Bridge, we noticed that there was some scaffolding going up on the west end of Midtown Plaza.  Looks like they’re going to start working on it soon.

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I had to be somewhere at 4:30 pm, but checked the BS location afterwards.  Sorry to say, I did not find any falcons there at 7:00 pm.

Sunday Early Afternoon, April 13, 2014

Today I started my watch at the BS location.  I stayed there for close to an hour.  Dana joined me there.  Again no falcons seen or heard.

Dana and I joined Kathy O downtown on Aqueduct St (aka the hole).  It was busy at the Blue Cross Arena again.  A group of cheerleaders were practicing on the sidewalk on Broad St.  Not sure what was going on there today.

Beauty was up on Camera #1 (pan cam) and Dot.ca was up above her on the northeast wing ledge of the Times Square Bldg (TSB).

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Beauty took off and flew around a bit before landing on the nest box platform.  She stayed there for awhile before heading into the nest box to sit on the eggs (now 3!).

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Kathy left, leaving Dana and I to watch Dot.ca take off and head east across the river.  While we were waiting for him to return, Kathy reported that she had been watching two Peregrine Falcons flying over the Kodak Park Research Labs.  Dot.ca did not return, so Dana and I joined Kathy at KP on Lake Ave.  By that time the falcons had left.  Kathy said they both headed north east across the river gorge.  This is the second day in a row that a falcon had been seen flying in this area and today there were two!  Of course we’ll keep checking for these two falcons.

I’ll leave you with some non-falcon news about my neighborhood Red-tail Hawks (RTH).  A couple years ago, they had lost their nest during a high wind storm.  Well, they have rebuilt their nest in the same area on a taller tree.  I checked out the nest and there was an RTH up there.  I was really happy to see that they had returned and rebuilt their nest.  🙂

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Goodnight everyone!

By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Heat wave for real today-it was 53 (F) 12 (C) when I left for my watch with 80 forecast for a high with a mix of sun and clouds

I found Dot.Ca (DC) on the base of Mercury as I pulled over on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB). I had time to get one pic before he took off with a package in his talons chirping the whole time and heading west.

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As I drove down to the hole I spotted Beauty on the opposite corner of the base that DC had been on. He must have taken off as she arrived as they usually do. I spotted him on the back half of the Times Square building (TSB) north side column plucking feathers from a Northern “Yellow-shafted” Flicker.

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I drove across from the hole to the parking lot next to TSB for a closer view of DC and his catch of the day.

DC was getting his share of the woodpecker in between sending feathers fluttering in the breeze. As I was focused on him, Beauty must have gotten tired of waiting and flew to the nest box as reported by Annette. Thanks! DC spent another 20 minutes after that eating and plucking, eating and plucking. I thought he might eat it all and not share any with Beauty, who hadn’t eaten since before laying her 3rd egg at 12:03am.

Finally at 7:21am DC flew off with a good sized chunk of food and took it to the base of Mercury. He just stood there at first, then he started calling Beauty and when she didn’t come to him he took it to the north side of the deck next to the main camera.

Beauty came out and grabbed his food gift and went to the base of Mercury to start eating. I went up on the BSB for a front view of the Beautyful one as she ate her breakfast.

Beauty finished eating and turned around showing me her back so I went down to the hole  to share space with her. She did some cleaning up and then just stayed perched and resting.

I thought this a good time to check Brighton but again neither Pigott or the juvie falcon were around. A quick look on the south side roof had a Mourning Dove on it along with 1 crow and a couple Starlings. I left after a short stay to return downtown. It was busy around the Blue Cross Arena as a cheerleading competition was the event scheduled there. The BSB parking was filling up quickly as I pulled over to check around for falcons. I could see Beauty on the north side of the deck so I figured DC was on the eggs.

I opted to end my watch at 8:45am before it got any more crowded around there. In Rochester today I bet there were many smiles due to the summer-like weather-I know I was smiling! 🙂

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

A beautiful sunrise on the horizon as I made my way downtown on route 490 with a starting temperature of 42 (F) 6 (C) a slight breeze and clear skies

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Beauty was on the eggs when I left for this mornings watch and as I arrived on the Broad St. bridge I spotted a falcon watcher sitting in his lawn chair on the south side of the bridge. It was Dan, sporting a big old smiley for me as I pulled up-as far as I’m concerned the season has officially started now with my first watch with my buddy Dan. I got my chair out and joined him! 🙂

We couldn’t see Beauty in the nest box as she was laying on her eggs at first and Dot.Ca (DC) was nowhere in the vicinity. Around 6:55am Beauty came out  to perch in front of the nest box and 5 minutes later she flew to the base of Mercury on the northeast corner where we couldn’t see her from the bridge.

Dan and I watched a flock of Canada Geese fly over the river behind the Radisson and out of sight.

The Beautyful one flew to the main camera 10 minutes later. She remained there after Dan left at 7:30am so I went to the hole for a closer view.

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Beauty was looking sleepy as she did some rousing and preening while we waited for DC to show up with breakfast. He would make us wait a long time today.

I left to look for DC and while I was gone the little sneak arrived with food-I saw him under the northeast wing of Times Square (TSB) as I was stopped at the traffic light at Main and State St. I went to the hole and parked next to He’s Chinese but I could only see his head poking up from back on the ledge.

The only way I knew he had food were the feathers floating around in the air space around him. He cleaned it up real good and when Beauty started complaining that he was taking too long he flew down with his food gift landing on the north side of the deck by the main cam. Beauty flew off the main cam and landed on the south side of the deck and made a bee line for DC and the food.

When she reached him there was a tug of war which Beauty won-she took a swan dive off the deck and took her fresh meal to the base of Mercury while DC went to his eggs in the nest box around 8am.

Beauty started eating on Mercury and soon after stopped and started  looking south then she took off with her leftovers and headed over to the northeast corner of Widows Walk where she resumed eating.

Beauty finished off her meager leftovers, pooped  and cleaned herself up a bit by feaking (wiping her beak off) and picking at her talons.

At approximately 8:30am Beauty flew off to the main cam where she perched watching DC on the eggs.

I checked the Brighton site at this time as the police were closing roads around downtown for the Rochester Heart Walk. All I saw were 2 squirrels and 3 crows-I guess Pigott isn’t coming back. 🙁  I had to take an alternate route back to downtown but I made it to the hole to find Beauty still on the main cam. I saw a cute lil pooch sitting on a garbage bin in my travels-its owner came and got it as I pulled away.

I assumed DC was still on the eggs and tweeted as such.  I ended my watch at 9:30am and as I left downtown, cam watcher Ei tweeted that DC was indeed on the eggs putting a smile on this watchers face! 🙂

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The starting temp this morning was 47 (F) 8 (C) with a mix of sun and clouds

Once again I was detained by the livestream video at the nest box-I have a hard time leaving it lately! lol Turns out I should have stayed a little longer because while on my way downtown there was a mating session on the deck as told to me by Donna!!! When I arrived around 6:45am Beauty was on the deck. I parked in the hole by Keybank to observe.

About 5 minutes later Beauty spotted DC coming in with food and he made sure to announce it by chirping to her as he landed under the northeast wing of the Times Square building (TSB). Beauty startled DC by flying up and plopping down in front of him and grabbing the food. She must have been famished as she immediately started plucking the feathers.

DC  took off over to the Mercury money bag (MMB). He did some preening while Beauty ate under the wing. DC was doing a lot of  rousing (shaking himself making his feathers foof up).

Around 7:15am Beauty finished eating and flew north with the leftovers while DC stayed on Mercury watching his territory and eggs.

10 minutes later Beauty flew in landing on the main cam and DC left the MMB. Just a couple minutes later Beauty watched DC fly in to mate with her on the main cam then he flew to the MMB once more. Here are Beauty before pics as DC flies in. Mating was video taped

The Beautyful one started preening right after they were done like nothing had happened-aren’t they something?!

DC left Mercury some time around 7:40am but I missed it. Beauty was on the main cam preening so I left to check the Brighton site (BS) at this time. As I pulled in the main driveway I could see DC up on the antenna plain as day-I had time for one pic before he flew off to the southeast right into the sun where I lost him.

I hung out 10-15 minutes but he didn’t come back. No Pigott and on juvie were seen while I was there. Just before I left Annette tweeted that beauty was on the front perch of the nest box so when I returned to downtown I went out on the Broad St. bridge where I could see and sure enough she was still there. Thanks Annette! Beauty went in the box a few minutes later and laid down on her eggs. I didn’t see DC around so I called it a watch at 8:45am smiling! 🙂

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was 39 warm degrees (F) 4 (C) as I passed the bank clock on State St. to start my watch. It was very breezy and sunny at first but the clouds moved in by the end of my watch

I got a late start this morning arriving downtown about 6:45am because I was watching the livestream with Beauty and Dot.ca (DC) mating not once but twice on cam 1 and that’s where I found Beauty when I got to the hole.

Beauty stood at attention as DC came in with prey at 7:07am-he went up under the northeast wing and started plucking feathers while she whined for her breakfast.

Beauty got impatient waiting for a delivery so she took things into her own talons and flew up to get it herself. DC went to the back of the northeast wing ledge and Beauty grabbed it and took it to the front of the ledge as DC flew off.

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DC chased after everything with wings thus clearing the air space around his mate and egg before coming to rest on the Mercury money bag (MMB) while Beauty watched him.

The Beautyful one ate until about 7:30am then cached the leftovers to the back of the ledge and peeked over the edge.

As I was facing the Times Square building with Mercury behind me, I missed DC leave it and go to the nest box (thanks to Donna and Campgee who told me he was in there). He can be very sneaky!  lol Beauty saw him as she came out from the back of the wing ledge and had something to say about it. She preened a bit but just couldn’t let DC stay with the egg any longer and flew off to the deck around 8am.

She went in the nest box and about 10 seconds later DC came shooting out flying in a circle and then to cam 1. Beauty came out on the deck and DC flew off to the northeast wing ledge.

I left at this time to check the Brighton Site but had no luck in seeing Pigott-she’s been gone for 2 weeks and 2 days now and it doesn’t look like she’s coming back. I hope she’s ok. 🙁  The juvenile falcon that had been seen there didn’t show up in the 20 minutes I spent there either. I returned to downtown but didn’t see any falcons until Camp tweeted that Beauty was on the nest box perch. Thank you very much!  I had to go further east on the Broad St. bridge to barely see her head.

That’s all she wrote as I ended my watch around 9:10am. Keep smiling folks we should have another egg today or early tomorrow! 🙂

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The sun won out over the clouds today and as I drove past the bank clock on State St. it said 34 degrees (F)  1 (C)

There was no time to get settled this morning as I drove down Bank Place to the hole by Aqueduct St. and watched Dot.Ca (DC) fly down off the Mercury money bag (MMB) to mate with Beauty who was on the base of Mercury at 6:41am.

DC flew to the north and a couple minutes later Beauty followed suit. I went north too and found DC on the Kodak Office launchpad southwest corner-soon after he stooped to the north behind the building and I lost sight of him.

Got back  in time to see Beauty and DC at the nest box from the Broad St. bridge (BSB) at 7:02am. Beauty had food which I assume DC had just caught over by Kodak and brought to her. They had a few words then DC went in the nest box with his egg.

Next, I saw DC up under the northeast wing then he landed on cam 4 and then over to the main cam. Beauty left with her small package and I went down to the hole by He’s chinese.

I spotted Beauty over on the lower roof of Widows Walk northeast corner plucking feathers.

I drove over to Fitzhugh St. where I thought I would have a better view but the Beautyful one was back on the ledge too far to see what she was munching on.

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She walked around the corner and cached her leftovers and took off. When I got back to the BSB around 7:30am DC was on the base of Mercury eating.

A few minutes later DC took leftovers to the deck and Beauty joined him I thought in the nest box before she got the food and started eating.

A couple minutes later DC flew to the MMB and Beauty flew to the base of Mercury to continue eating and finished up about 10 minutes later.

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Next, Beauty hop/flew up to green part of the base as DC preened and made some talon gestures from up above her on the money bag.

DC looked down to check on Beauty and she looked up at him and then he prepared to take off.

Beauty flew over to the deck while DC flew over near the Crossroads building then doubled back to land once again on the MMB.

I left to check the Brighton site, found nothing there and left to return to downtown. I spotted a falcon on the MMB as I stopped on Exchange Blvd. across from Cornhill as I usually do, to scope things out before entering downtown. When I got to the BSB tho it was gone and I couldn’t see any falcons in the vicinity. I ended my watch at 9am falconless but smiling anyway, for I had seen our Rochester Peregrine pair doing well the day after laying their first egg! 🙂

PS: Thanks Campgee and Annette for your tweets that all got to me after the fact-darn time delay! lol

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The weather this morning was warm with a starting temperature of  43 (F) 6 (C) with overcast skies, windy conditions and rain in varying degrees on and off throughout

As I arrived on Broad St. at 6:35am I spotted Beauty and Dot.Ca (DC) on the base of Mercury so I pulled over by the Blue Cross Arena to watch. I got a couple pics before DC flew off with prey in his talons and took it to the north side of the deck. It had black wings and appeared to be the size of a Red-winged Blackbird tho I couldn’t say for sure if that’s what he had to offer Beauty.

I drove down to the hole after Beauty went to the nest box-she wasn’t interested in DC s’ food gift at first as I watched him fly out and back to the deck 3 times with it.

I went up on the Broad St. Bridge where I could see Beauty in the nest box.

Finally on the 4th try Beauty took the food as reported to me by Donna and Annette around 7am. Thank you! I missed that as I was looking other places for DC at the time. Beauty left the nest box and I caught up with her as I drove back down to the hole where I saw her fly from the southwest corner of the Wilder building with her food and go behind Widows Walk.

I went to Fitzhugh St. looking for her on the west side of Widows Walk but I believe she must have cached the food back there somewhere and left. As I approached on Broad St. I could see the Beautyful one on the base of Mercury-I then went down Bank Place and stopped where it meets Aqueduct St. in the hole to observe. Seconds later she raised her tail as DC came flying in to mate with her.

Beauty watched DC and then flew to the nest box (thanks Annette for letting me know) while the rain started to really come down, so I had to put my window up and missed her leave. I went around to my spot behind Keybank in the hole and at about 7:20am DC showed up on the northeast corner of the roof that is above the well.

I watched DC stay put in the rain and around 8am Annette tweeted that Beauty left the nest box-I missed her exit as I was focused on DC. Thanks again Annette! I left 5 minutes later to check the Brighton Site, hoping one of these days I’ll find Pigott there but not today-the juvie wasn’t there either. I spotted a Red-tailed Hawk on a light pole in my travels.

Once again, Annette (thanks) helped me out and  let me know Beauty was on the deck so when I arrived downtown I knew just where to look for her. Beauty was still there when I got there at 8:45am and DC was over on the top ibeam southeast side of OCSR. I went over to the Radisson Hotel to watch them.

I took a couple shots to show my view from the Radisson Hotel by Main St.

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DC did some napping and preening until he spotted something down in the river and flew off into a stoop after it out of my field of vision.

I checked to see that Beauty was still on deck but DC didn’t resurface anywhere that I could see him. So I ended my watch at 9am after one more pic of Beauty.

Makes me smile to see these guys every day! 🙂

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

There was a nice sunrise as I made my way downtown on 490 with a temperature of 34 (F) 1 (C) but the clouds rolled in soon after I arrived on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) leaving the skies overcast

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I was slow to find a falcon this morning but finally about 6:45am I spotted Beauty on the base of Mercury with something to eat. Donna texted me to say Beauty and Dot.Ca (DC) had been in the nest box while I was on the north side of the city looking for them. Thanks D!

I parked on Broad St. by the Blue Cross Arena (BCA) to watch and about 5 minutes later the Beautyful one flew east with her prey disappearing behind Bausch & Lomb and most likely cached it over there somewhere. While I was focusing on the east side Beauty snuck to the nest box without me seeing her, but thankfully I have eyes in the back of my head in the form of cam watchers. Thank you to Annette who tweeted that Beauty was there!

Around 7:10am Beauty jumped up onto the roof of her nest box. While she was up there good friend and fellow falcon watcher DebbieH stopped by on her way to work.

I left Beauty to check on the Brighton site and as soon as I left Annette tweeted a food exchange at nest box and then Debbie texted to say there was a falcon on Widows Walk eating. Thanks ladies! I just love how falcons play the game of “as soon as those watchers leave lets go into action”!  I found no falcons in Brighton and after staying about 20 minutes I returned to downtown finding Beauty back on the base of Mercury.

Beauty flew off soon after at 8:36am heading west-I figured to the nest box and confirming it was Annette who said DC was on deck and then there was bonding between he and Beauty.

I made a u-turn on the BSB and went to the hole hoping to see them. I missed DC exiting but I spotted him on the base of Mercury around 8:50am eating something with long wings (probably a pigeon).

DC finished up around 9:10am then hopped up on the green part of the base and cached his leftovers. He hung out there while Beauty hung out at the front of the nest box

At 9:31am DC flew off to the east-I watched him as he flew in front of Xerox then disappeared behind it to the southeast.

I ended my watch with a smile at 9:35am, happy to have seen our downtown duo fill their crops! 🙂

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

I was able to get out for a couple hours this afternoon to enjoy this beautiful spring day.  My first stop was the BS location where I found no falcons.

When I arrived downtown, I parked on the Broad St Bridge.  Dot.ca was on top of the Mercury statue and Beauty was inside the nest box.

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<– Beauty at the nest box and coming out of the nest box.

Beauty came out of the nest box and flew over the river and in front of the OCSR.  She landed on the base of  the Mercury statue.

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<– Beauty on Base of Mercury

Dot.ca took off from the top of Mercury and flew down to Beauty.  They copulated on the base of the Mercury statue.

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<– Beauty and Dot.ca copulate on the base of the Mercury statue

Afterwards, Dot.ca flew up to the nest box and Beauty walked out of sight to the north side of the base of Mercury statue.

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<– Dot.ca at the Nest Box

Kathy O and Dana joined me on the Broad St. Bridge.  Dot.ca moved up to the ledge above the nest box on the Times Square Bldg.

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<–Dot.ca on the Ledge Above the Nest Box on the Times Square Bldg.

So we continue to wait for Beauty to lay her first egg.  🙂  Goodnight everyone!