By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

It was a stunningly beautiful and warm day today with temps in the mid to high 70’s (F).  Early May doesn’t get much better than this in Rochester, NY and it’s about to come to an end.  Cooler temperatures and very much need rain is heading our way tomorrow afternoon.  The Spiderman folks couldn’t have planned a better stretch of weather for their filming.  Only two more days left.  They wrap up on Thursday, May 9th.  As much as it has been a nuisance getting around downtown for my late afternoon/evening falcon watches, I’ve kind of enjoyed meeting so many new folks, both Rochesterians and visitors.  Today Brian and I met a very nice young lady from Pittsburgh.  She is a member of the Spiderman crew with a tie-in to our Rochester falcons.  More about that later.

When I first arrive downtown at about 4:30 pm, I was able to park on Aqueduct St (aka the hole).  I found Beauty on the south side of the nest box.  I quickly tweeted out that she was there and asked if Dot.ca was inside the nest box on the eggs?  I quickly got answers from Lisa McK, Ei, Joyce and Ruth.  Thanks ladies!  It is so nice having your help.  🙂

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I had to run a quick errand and when I returned to Aqueduct St. at approximately 5:30 pm, I found Dot.ca on the OCSR, 2nd IBeam down near the south corner.  Beauty had taken over brooding duties on their four eggs.

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Brian H joined me at 5:45 pm and when we looked up at OCSR, Dot.ca was gone.  A few minutes later, we found him on the green stripe at the top of the Wilder Bldg.  Since everything was quiet, we decided to head over to Main St. to check up on what was happening with the Spiderman filming.  There was a lot of activity on Main St west of State/Exchange St.  A car was on fire and three NYPD police cars were speeding down Pindle Alley, which was now “China Town”.  They stopped filming around 6:30 pm and allowed us to walk down Main St, which was very interesting.  I’ll add a  couple pics at the end of this report.

After checking out Main St, Brian and I returned to Aqueduct St. and found Dot.ca over on the Mercury statue’s money bag hand.

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Dot.ca was hyper vigilant, keeping an eye on his downtown territory and keeping the Crows out of his airspace.  He chased one of the Crows into the trees in Aqueduct Park.  At about 7:15 pm, Dot.cat took off and flew to the east side of the OCSR and around the back (north side).  We did not see him come back around.  It was getting late and I wanted to take a quick trip over to the BS location to find Pigott, so I dropped Brian off at his apartment and headed out there.

It was very quiet at the BS location and I quickly found Pigott sitting on the ledge of the cubby at 7:45 pm.  She was checking out the Canada Geese that were walking and honking loudly below her.  Just as I was leaving at 8:00 pm, Pigott flew to the SW corner of the NW extension.

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I was very happy to see all three Rochester Falcons on my watch today.

OK, now for the story of Melinda and what a small falcon world it really is.  She is a member of the Spiderman crew that just happened to be standing at the barricade we were watching from.  I got to talking with her and found out she was from Pittsburgh, PA.  She really like Rochester and I told her about the Rochester falcons that were nesting on the Times Square Bldg.  She said “falcons”!  She then went on to tell Brian and I about being at the Cathedral of Learning in Pittsburgh and how they had falcons there too!  One day she had been walking near there and someone yelled out “DON’T MOVE!”  She of course did move and turned around because she was startled.  Just in front of her was a very large Peregrine Falcon, by the name of Dorothy (she found this out from the falcon watcher that had warned her).  I told her we had Dorothy’s daughter Beauty sitting on 4 eggs on the next building over from where we stood.  She was so excited to learn this.  Brian handed her an Rfalconcam card and she said she would check it out.  Now talk about a small falcon world!  lol

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I’ll leave you with a couple pics I took while wandering up and down Main St with Brian H.

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