By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Today starts a week of oppressive weather conditions as in hot and humid! With daily high temperatures in the low 90’s (F) Low 30’s (C)

I travel interstate 490 to go downtown in the morning getting off at Plymouth Ave. where the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT can be checked before going to the Times Square area (TSB). This morning I saw a falcon on the south railing as I turned onto Church St. I was surprised to see Dan sitting in his chair in the parking lot next to Hochstein School of Music at the corner of Church and Fitzhugh St. He is after all the Mayor of the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) and doesn’t usually go anywhere else in the morning.  We had all 3 juvies on the tower.

Beauty came in with food and the kids all got in a tug of war on the platform with it. Beauty retreated to the northeast corner of the platform railing.

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Dot.Ca (DC) flew in and was met by one of the girls with both of them landing on the top arm northeast side. All present and accounted for with the our entire falcon family on the tower. Rosetta and Voyager flew up to the south side railing after finishing up their meal on the platform. Larry joined us around 6:30am and Beauty left.

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Baron flew off the north side almost like a stoop and returned to knock DC off the top arm taking his place as DC flew across to the northwest  top arm.

A few minutes later Baron flew down and knocked Rosetta off her railing spot. He is a little spitfire!  Baron and Rosetta did some flying together and talon tagging with Baron catching her from behind and tapping her on the back side a few times. Larry and Dan left a little after 7am and the kids dispersed shortly after. Rosetta went to Widows Walk (WW) before disappearing. I drove to the BSB and found Rosetta and Voyager under the northeast wing with food and I would spot Beauty up there at the back of the ledge as well.

Beauty left some food behind for the kids and flew over to the northwest wing with her food package, picked at it a bit then cached it to the back of the ledge.

Our 3 young fledglings flew around a bit before settling on the Widows Walk railing. They spent quite some time up there together before Rosetta left.

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Baron spent quite some time with his sister Voyager on WW  as she liked to jump down to the roof and explore as Baron watched.

DC flew in and landed on the southeast wing ring and Beauty was on the jail tower before joining DC to look after the kids landing under the southeast wing.

Meanwhile Voyager and Baron remained on WW and Rosetta flew past dad squawking before going to roof of OCSR. Voyager would fly off WW followed by Baron.

I next found a Baron on the FCT east railing and Voyager went back to WW. Rosetta vanished and so did DC and Beauty. A while later Rosetta showed up under the northeast wing. Baron flew in and knocked her off. It was getting really hot with the sun peeking thru the clouds on and off so everyone settled in the shade. DC to northeast side of OCSR top ibeam, one of the juvies to the northwest top ibeam pancaked out and one juvie to roof of Crossroads. I left to check for Pigott at the Brighton Site. She was on the front ledge of the cubby for the 3rd day in a row.

I went back downtown in search of our falcon family but I could only find one fledgling on the top ibeam near the west corner of OCSR. I ended my 8 hr. watch just before 2pm as I decided everyone was hunkered down in the shade due to the heat. The kids continue to amuse and make me smile as I savor every moment spent with them! 🙂

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