By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Todays starting temperature was 51 (F) 11 (C) with minimal wind,sunshine and blue skies.

I arrived downtown right around 5:30am and could see no falcons as I parked on Broad St. next to the Blue Cross Arena(BCA)-one of the only places available to park with the road closures around the Times Square building (TSB) for the Spiderman movie shoots. I was facing east so I could see the statue of Mercury and since Beauty wasn’t on the base I figured Dot.Ca hadn’t arrived yet to relieve her of incubation duties. I then drove around to Exchange Blvd. and parked in front of the main entrance to the BCA as I would be facing north and could see the nest box directly ahead of me. Around 5:45am I caught a glimpse of a set of wing tips on the deck so I figured DC had arrived and sure enough Beauty came flying out and over to the base of Mercury.

Beauty stayed only a minute or so then dropped off the back of the base out of view. I was on the Court St. bridge at the time but I had mistakenly tweeted I was on the Andrews St. Bridge which is where I went  next to look for the Beautyful one from the north side of the city. After unsuccessfully finding her I was off to the Brighton site. I arrived there about 6:15am and found the lovely Pigott on the west end of the south side vent.

Miss Pigott kept herself occupied watching the birds in the trees below and in the sky above her. She flew off after a starling and returned to the vent after missing.

A couple minutes later she flew out about 20 feet and aborted her attempt on a starling and returned to the vent again.

Pigott flew off one more time a few minutes later headed south and out of view and this time she would not return.

I returned to downtown around 7:30am and parked on the Court St. Bridge where I was able to see Beauty on the base of Mercury.

She flew off  as soon as I stopped and got out the car going over to the nest box to relieve DC. He flew over to the Mercury money bag.

<Beauty

While I was recording a video of the river DC left the money bag so I had no idea which direction he went. I decided to go to the Andrews St. bridge to check the north side of things but never did find him. The traffic was just horrendous trying to get from one place to another because of all the road closures for the Spiderman movie. I got really frustrated with it all so I ended my watch at just about 8am. I saw all 3 Rochester Peregrine Falcons so I did manage to smile about that as I left the city!  🙂

Click the links below to view a few videos from my watch

http://youtu.be/toJQyk477-8
http://youtu.be/E9VwD1-pczQ
http://youtu.be/K3-OQOYixpQ
http://youtu.be/KKJ512CGciw

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