By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

62 (F) 17 (C)  to start the day with overcast skies making for a dark watch. Hey, we had 2 sunny days in a row-I guess we were due right!? lol

So I pulled into the hole (Aqueduct St.) around 5:15am and saw who I thought was Beauty up on the Mercury Money Bag (MMB). Turns out it was Dot.Ca ( DC) and he flew off before I stopped the car. I then looked to the nest box and watched Beauty fly out and over to the base of Mercury and then to the main cam.

Beauty vocalized a bit as DC flew past her before heading over to OCSR top ibeam south corner showing me his back. He stayed only a moment before he was off to Widows Walk landing on the northwest corner below the railing.

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I had to drive over to Fitzhugh St. and park in the lot next to the Episcopal Church of St. Luke and St. Simon Cyrene to see the front of him as he was watching some small birds below and in full hunt mode. He stayed only about 5 minutes and then he was off again disappearing behind buildings.

15 minutes later I discovered DC on a small lip of a ledge below the base of Mercury northeast corner. He was keeping an eye on something down in the river.

A couple minutes later DC flew off to the south upriver, followed by Beauty with both leaving my field of vision for a second or two. Then Beauty flew to the deck on the north side of the main cam before going to the nest box and DC went to the main cam just before 6am.

10 minutes later I happened to look over to Mercury and saw Beauty on the heel-now how did she sneak out from that nest box area without me seeing her. It happens all the time! lol

I was now at the top of the stairs where we call Falcon Watcher Central and there was a gorgeous male Housefinch on the railing. Beauty left while I took a couple pics of it. Oh, she was playing with me this morning!

DC was still on the main cam watching over his children and 15 minutes Beauty returned from her little jaunt to land on the Mercury money bag briefly and then off to the east.

She crossed the river going behind the South Ave. garage  and I saw her resurface 3 or 4 times in front of the Chase tower scaring up the pigeon population that resides over there. Now up on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) I spotted the Beautyful one hovering above Xerox. She would soar in and out of view before vanishing all together. I drove back behind Xerox and checked the buildings for her unsuccessfully and returned in time to see DC  fly to the MMB.

OOPS, DC is headless! Click on the pic and he’ll get it back. Teehee!

A couple minutes later I spotted Beauty on the column directly above the nest box.

I went back down to the hole to observe Beauty as she was in hunt mode, and might I add that both Beauty and DC were working hard to catch breakfast for their eyases this morning.

At 7:10am Beauty flew east again and DC was also gone from Mercury so I set out to look for them. As I returned to the BSB I noticed a PEFA on the top arm of the jail tower-I believe it was Beauty and she didn’t stay long before she was off flying over to the main cam.

As I was parked in front of the Blue Cross Arena on Exchange Blvd. now I missed what Beauty stooped on 5 minutes later as she went off to the northwest side of the Times Square building. She returned less than 10 minutes later to the main cam.

I decided to go check the Brighton site (BS)  for Pigott at this time and just as I was leaving I noticed this Great Blue Heron on top of the Blue Cross Arena.

Arriving at BS at 7:50am I found Pigott on the northeast  corner of the east extension and she had a full crop. Little did I know-she wasn’t done filling it for after 10 minutes she started munching on something up there.

I spent about an hour with Miss Pigott before returning to downtown as it started to sprinkle. I spotted DC up under the northeast wing.

I watched him for a few minutes and ended my watch just before the 9 o’clock hour. Our downtown Peregrine parents were very active this morning trying to catch breakfast for their family. While reviewing the rfalconcam now tweets I came across one that I never received at 8:23am from Annette who reported Beauty feeding the eyases. Thank you! So I left downtown smiling as I had seen all 3 of  Rochesters Peregrine falcons! 🙂

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