By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The temperature was 59 (F) 15 (C) at the start with rain on and off in varying intensity during my watch.

So I drove downtown and got myself all cinched in by He’s Chinese to wait for Dot.Ca (DC) to come relieve Beauty on egg duty. Yesterday we waited a little over an hour and a half. Today I waited over 2 and a half hours when I decided to go to the Brighton site (BS) to look for him and when I left I knew DC would show up. Sure enough half way there Donna informed me that DC was on the eggs and she thought he brought food for Beauty. He’s a funny little man that DC! lol Not only did I miss the switch but I was out of luck finding Miss Pigott at BS as well. What can ya do but go with it right!? I went back downtown finding Beauty at about 8:45am on the base of Mercury.

I was viewing from the Court St. bridge and she had her back to me at first. I took advantage of the lull in the rain and shot a video of the river while I waited for Beauty to turn around for me.  And she did-at least one of our falcons was cooperating for me. lol

Beauty took off when I wasn’t looking but I found her easily as I made my way down Court St. to Exchange Blvd. she was straight ahead on the jail tower 3rd arm down on the southeast side. I drove over to Troup St. for the best place to observe her.

I stayed there for the better part of an hour while she mostly preened making herself Beautyful. At 10am I went back to BS and happily after the 2nd trip around found Pigott on the front edge of the cubby. Only her tail feathers were showing when I spotted her and as I got ready to take a pic she moved in where I couldn’t see her. I’m sure DC told her to mess with MAK this morning! haha I  waited 15 minutes to see if she would come out and play but she didn’t so I returned to downtown for one last look/see.  No luck finding Beauty and I never did see DC on my watch, tho he gave me a chuckle I left for home at 10:35am smiling! 🙂

Links for 4 videos are below for you to view-just click em

http://youtu.be/TFeI70mqLsw
http://youtu.be/3khtLRs5MqM
http://youtu.be/YUo-iaF5CXQ
http://youtu.be/6KWS4RsEpaY

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