By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

When I stepped out the door today I was hit with some pretty humid air and the car was covered with dew as the temperature was 63 (F) 17 (C).  It was mostly cloudy with the sun peeking thru at times but it was short lived.

I arrived at Bank Place in the hole at 5:20am where I saw Beauty straight ahead of me on the heel of Mercury. There was a pinkish hue in the sky behind her making for a unique silhouette shot of her.

5 minutes later she flew west out of view behind the Philipone building. I drove around to the parking lot where He’s Chinese is located and to look for Beauty but didn’t see her. I had no idea if maybe she was at the nest box so I took a drive down State St. To my surprise I found Dot.Ca (DC) on the top arm south side of the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT). I parked on Church St. across from Frontier to observe him.

He was intent on looking for a meal and flew off after 5 minutes passed heading east. At the same time cam watcher Annette reported the eyases were being fed. Thanks!

I followed DC without my binocs so I could drive that way and try to keep track of where he went. The traffic in the city at that time of the morning is very light so I was able to follow him as he did a quick stoop over the river on a pigeon which escaped his clutches. DC then turned toward the south above the  river and I was able to follow him as I drove along State St. I lost him behind OCSR but when I pulled in the hole I saw that he was on the top ibeam south corner of OCSR.

When I checked the nest box area 2 of the eyases were in view. They are growing at such an accelerated rate  that they look different from morning to night.

I went down to Graves St. next to Aqueduct St. which turned out to work in my favor as DC took off from there at 5:54am and stooped on a pigeon right above me.  It’s so cool to see them in action that it kind of freezes you in place.

Anyway, DC missed as the pigeon veered off toward the tree tops in Aqueduct Park and he continued on flying west over the north building of Thomson Reuters. I whipped up to the hole and spotted DC on the east side railing of Widows Walk and Beauty on the column above the nest box.

She was napping so I wondered if she even saw her mate fly thru. lol He had his back to me so I drove over to Broad St. near Fitzhugh and once more DC cooperated by moving to the south side railing which was on the side I was viewing from now. 5 minutes later he took off to the west out of sight in a hurry at 6:05am.

After driving up on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) I could see 2 kids on the deck as Beauty watched from above.

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I then went to Exchange Blvd. in front of the Blue Cross Arena to hang with Beauty and the gang for a few minutes.

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I left them to check the Brighton site. Arriving there at 6:53am I was pleased to find Pigott at home being the first time in about 5 days that I have seen her in the morning. Evening watchers have been seeing her regularly. She was on the southeast corner of the southeast extension.

Miss Pigott flew off 10 minutes later around the north (front) side of the building and I found her on the west side 5 windows down .

Pigott continues to have her tattered left wing and tail feathers but it doesn’t seem to be affecting her ability to thrive and take care of herself. At 7:54am Pigott flew over to the east side.  Larry pulled up to tell me he saw her over there on his way in. He told me there wasn’t much going on downtown where he had come from and then he was off to work. I drove around to find Pigott on the northeast corner of the northeast extension.

While she was up there a robin buzzed her 3 different times-the first attack caught Miss Pigott off guard and she nearly fell off the corner. In the hour that she was up there I observed her preening and watching her territory as well as that pesky robin. She flew off to the southeast at 8:50am.

She didn’t return so I left to check downtown before calling it a watch. Mom and dad were on the OCSR together with Beauty at the west corner and DC a few feet away on the top ibeam.

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I left downtown at 9:20am exactly 4 hours after I arrived and smiling for having seen all of our Rochester Peregrine Falcons! 🙂

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