By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was 51 (F) 11 (C) a little breezy and clear once again. We certainly are having a nice stretch of fantastic weather here in Western New York!

Today I arrived downtown about 5:40am and that wasn’t early enough  for I got a message from Ei that Dot.Ca (DC) had been on the eggs since 5:20am.  He surely didn’t hit the snooze button today! So I went looking for Beauty in road closed Rochester. Even at 6am the city was busy with Spiderman movie business and traffic. As I was stopped at the traffic light at Church St. to turn left onto Plymouth Ave. I put my binocs up to check the jail tower and saw the familiar shape of Beauty with her salmon colored chest. I took a quick pic as the light changed and then I drove down to Troup St. for the best view.

When I got there Beauty was gone so I drove down to Exchange Blvd. As I pulled over just south of Court St. I saw a falcon fly past the front of the Times Square building (TSB). I pulled over in front of the Blue Cross Arena when I spotted her up under the northeast wing.

I wanted to go across the street to the hole (Aqueduct St.) but there were 3 cops blocking the way to Bank Place  off Exchange  Blvd. which was closed for the Spiderman movie shoots. I decided to park next to the TSB  and ask them if I could walk down. At first they weren’t going to let me cuz I don’t need access for my job but when I asked if they knew about the Rochester Falcons and they said yes I knew I had them. I told them that I kinda was going to work as I come down every day to watch out for the birds. I gave them an rfalconcam business card and told them a few falcon facts and they said ok. YAY!

Around 6:45am Beauty hopped off  and went down to the nest box and DC flew out to the Mercury money bag (MMB).

<Beauty  DC>

DC was showing his big yellow feet a lot while he was up there, making me think Jeanne might have taught him sign language. lol After half hour or so he stooped off to the river side and out of sight.

On the way to my car I stopped to show the police officers a few pics on my LCD screen-they thought they were really cool. I then checked around a bit for DC and left for the Brighton site when I didn’t find him. Upon my arrival, I found the divine Miss Pigott on the northwest corner of the west extension.

I didn’t like this angle so I drove around and observed from the north side which was much better. Pigott also showed her big yellow feet a lot while I shared space with her for the next hour and a half. Maybe DC taught her some sign language. And she also did a lot of stretching.

Around 8:30am a woman pulled up next to me and said I’m going to be completely nosy here, but I’ve been dying to know what you are looking at every day. I told her, pointed out Pigott and gave her the scoop on our falcons. Her name was Amy and she said her son watched a red-tailed hawk webcam. I gave her a business card and told her we had 5 cams and live-streaming video. She was very excited about it and couldn’t wait to tell her son.  She then left to catch the shuttle bus and I went back to watching Pigott who never left her corner the whole time I was there. She was perfectly content to preen, stretch and sign to me. Pigott also pooped for me-we watchers love to get the poop shots. lol And she kept opening her mouth and jerking her head around like she was adjusting what little was in her crop.

I left Pigott at 9:15am to make a last check downtown. While at BS with Miss Pigott Annette had tweeted that DC was on the eggs. Thank you very much! As I approached from the Cornhill area I pulled over to take a look of the TSB area and spotted Beauty on the base of Mercury.

When I got to Broad St. the Beautyful one was gone and after looking around real quick for her I ended my watch at 9:30am. I have to say that all 3 of our Rochester Peregrine Falcons have been very entertaining lately making me smile a lot! 🙂

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