By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Todays starting temperature was 56 (F) 13 (C) and clear, making way for lovely blue skies and sunshine.

I could see no falcons when I arrived downtown at 5:20am so I headed to Brighton straight away. I found Pigott on the west end of the south side vent but Dot.Ca (DC) was not anywhere that I could see.

I didn’t stay for more than 10 minutes then returned to downtown to find Beauty on cam 4. Still I didn’t see DC around the Times Square area.

I took a ride around the city but was unsuccessful in finding DC. As I arrived on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) at 6am Dan was there-he hadn’t seen DC either. 5 minutes later Beauty flew off cam 4 came back around near the nest box area twice then settled on the main cam. 10 minutes later Beauty flew off and disappeared behind the Thomson Reuters building. I started walking down toward Falcon Watcher Central and as I got by the Blue Cross Arena I heard the DC chirp. I looked across Broad St. in time to see Beauty and DC meet above the Philipone building and make a food exchange. Beauty went to the nest box with it and DC flew over to the OCSr top ibeam south corner.

I walked back up to where Dan was on the bridge to watch and 25 minutes later AT 6:45AM Dan noticed Beauty on the heel of Mercury.

We wondered how the heck she managed to fly over there without us seeing-but this stuff happens all the time. I call it falcon games! lol So we had a chuckle over it and Dan left smiling! I went down to the hole to share space with the Beautyful one and around 7:10am DC flew over to the Mercury Money Bag (MMB). So both were on Mercury-I love it when that happens!

<Beauty looks up at DC       Click all pics for full version

As I watched a police officer checking out a parked car the falcon games continued as a switch was made with Beauty now on the MMB and DC on the heel.

<DC   Beauty>

Things stayed this way for the next 15 minutes, then suddenly Beauty flew off to the south toward the river and DC followed right behind her.

They quickly left my field of vision behind the Thomson Reuters building only to come back in view less than a half minute later. Beauty flew to the main cam and DC flew to the MMB.

Around 7:35am Beauty flew up to the column directly above the nest box and DC was also gone from Mercury.

Just before 8am Beauty flew to the heel of Mercury. I couldn’t see DC anywhere in the vicinity.

I left the hole and drove up to the BSB where I could see more buildings to look for DC but I didn’t find him. I watched Beauty for a few minutes and called it a watch.

Once again I left for home smiling for having seen all 3 Rochester Peregrine Falcons! 🙂

Click the links below to view videos from the watch

http://youtu.be/BJPoyLkHJZg
http://youtu.be/vpqJ1mxCSQQ
http://youtu.be/nYWr83HlgHY
http://youtu.be/t43xaOOcYJg

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