By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Another warm morning in Rochester  as I started my watch at 5:35am with a temperature of 56 (F) 13 (C) and mostly cloudy skies. The rain is to arrive later with somewhat cooler temperatures.

The daily road closure map for the Spiderman movie said that Exchange Blvd. down to Court St. and Broad St. from Plymouth Ave. to South Ave. would be closed. Thank goodness that was incorrect as I drove down into the hole (Aqueduct St.) for the 2nd day in a row to wait for Dot.Ca(DC) to relieve Beauty on their eggs.

As I sat by He’s Chinese I spotted a large falcon whom I thought was Beauty fly above me and out of view past the Wilder building-I never saw her leave the nest box or return to it so I wasn’t positive. Minutes later Ei let me know that Beauty had left the nest box right about that time and Campgee tweeted it out as well-thanks for your help. A minute or two later DC flew to the back of the northwest wing on the Times Square building (TSB). I couldn’t say if he brought prey with him or he had cached food up there but he was definitely eating.

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DC ate his share and then he flew down to the deck by the well wall with leftovers for Beauty.

He barely touched down when Beauty whipped out to grab the food from him and take it over to the base of Mercury to start chowing down. She was obviously a very hungry girl!

The Beautyful one finished eating around 7:30am cleaned her beak off on the edge of the base  a few times.

I left the hole to watch Beauty from Broad St. next to the Blue Cross Arena for a few minutes. She did some leg and wing stretches for our viewing pleasure.

I stayed half hour or so before leaving for Brighton to check on Pigott. I got there at 8:25am to find Miss Pigott eating on the south side vent. She had her back to me and was toward the back of it on the west end.

She finished eating soon after I arrived and walked to the west edge of the vent to do a little clean up and then walked back over to stand over her leftovers and contemplate where she was going to cache them.

She finally decided and took off over the top of the building with food in her talons. I spotted her fly out from the roof on the west side above where the cubby is as I made my way around the service road and there was no longer anything in her talons as she disappeared to the east.

Pigott didn’t return so I went back downtown passing by Highland Park I couldn’t resist taking a pic of this horse.

I found Beauty on the base of Mercury where I left her. I decided to end my watch at this point and tweeted it out. I started packing up my equipment and glanced back at Mercury to see that DC was now on the money bag. Quick-that’s what these falcons are as they did a switch while I wasn’t looking. I got my camera back out took a couple pics and a video of DC and then I left for real. In the last series of both Beauty and DC each of them had a bird flying by behind them which I thought was kinda funny.

<Beauty  DC>

Once again I left for home  with a smile on my face for having seen all 3 Rochester Peregrine Falcons! 🙂

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