By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

My Mother’s Day Watch started at 11:30 am at the BS location.  I hoped to find Pigott again, like I did yesterday, but no such luck today.  It was 50 degrees (F) when I started my watch.  The sun was out.   The winds were gusting.  The dark clouds were rolling through.  It was raining and it was sleeting.  It did everything today, except snow.  lol

Just before noon, a crow flew in and landed on the south side vent.  Only for a moment.  Probably looking for cached food.  The Crow took off, unchallenged, and I continued to circle the building, watching and listening.

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At noon, I was getting ready to head downtown.  Just as I was heading out loud ee-chups filled the air.  I looked all over.  Was it two or only one falcon?  Finally one falcon flew off of the tree ledge on the east end of the building, heading south.  This falcon was flying so fast on the gusting wind, I had no chance to get a good look.  Was it Pigott or Dot.ca?  The falcon whipped around the west end of the building and I followed.  I circled the building twice and did not see anything.  But, I was lucky enough to get a flight shot of the falcon and I’m pretty sure it was Dot.ca.

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I remained at BS for about a 1/2 hr more before heading downtown.

Downtown was busy with graduations letting out, but it wasn’t long before I found a spot to park on the Broad St Bridge (BSB).  Dot.ca was up on the SE side top IBeam on the OCSR.  He had food and was either eating it or prepping it as a gift for Beauty.

At 12:50 pm, Dot.ca flew to the nest box and switched places with Beauty, taking his turn on the eggs.

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*Picture from Rfalconcam.

Beauty flew out of the nest box and over to the top IBeam of OCSR.  I couldn’t see if she had food or not.

At 1:00 pm, I had to go, leaving Dot.ca in the nest box and Beauty on OCSR.

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I’ll leave you with a couple pictures taken by the Rfalconcam main camera today.  One of Beauty and one of Dot.ca in the nest box on the eggs.

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*Rfalconcam Main Camera Pictures

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