By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

I arrived downtown to find Beauty up at the nest box on Camera #4.  Brian H was watching from the picnic tables at the Library and he had just tweeted out her location.  Joyce arrived and we all gathered on the Broad St Bridge (BSB) to watch Beauty and chat for awhile.  I searched the whole downtown area and could not find Dot.ca.  But not to worry, he did show up later in the nest box (on Rfalconcam cameras) and Joyce saw both Beauty and Dot.ca when she drove through downtown on her way home at approximately 8:30 pm.

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I left Joyce and Brian on the BSB and made my way over to the BS location to find Pigott.  I arrived a little before 5 pm and found her on the west side of the SE extension on a windowsill 5 down from the top.  I found a spot to park where I had a good view of her and settled in for a Pigott Watch.  Oh, and I did check to make sure Dot.ca wasn’t there first.

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Pigott was being serenaded or should I say scolded by a couple of irate Starlings that were nesting nearby.  Many Starlings and other small birds were busy moving back and forth above and below Pigott and she had her eye on every one of them turning her head every which way.  It was a warm afternoon, temps in the 70’s (F) and she was in a nice shady area.  She wasn’t preening or dozing as much as I have seen her in the past few days.  She did do a lot of stretching and I saw her spit up a pellet and poop a couple times.  Just proof that she has been eating.  Fellow Rochester Falcon Watcher Kathy O, joined me on the Watch.

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At 7:00 pm, Pigott took off from the windowsill and we watched her fly out from the building, first heading south, she then turned back to the north and made a full circle around the building returning to the south side.  She landed on the SE corner of the SW extension and then moved in a bit where we couldn’t see her.  Here is the one and only flight shot I got of Pigott flying today.  She did not have any problems flying at all as far as I could tell.  Beautiful flight!

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Pigott moved away from the corner of the building onto the roof and we lost sight of her.  I walked over to the east side of the building and found her on the east side of the roof she had been on, just further down.

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I am pretty sure that she had cached food up there when I first saw her, so she may have gotten a bite to eat while out of our sight.

This is where we left Pigott at the end of our Watch at 7:20 pm.  It seemed to me that she was more active than I had seen her since Sunday.  It was nice to see.

I’ll leave you with this picture of a critter that shares space with the BS Falcons, on the ground of course!  Night everyone!

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