By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

I got a late start this morning but I didn’t miss much. When I arrived downtown on the Andrews St Bridge CarolP and KathyO were there watching Beauty and Mr. t. They were on the second Ibeam of the OCSR building northeast side about 10-12 feet away from each other. The only action was when Mr. t flew a bit farther away from Beauty and then walked the rest of the way to the elevator shaft. We assumed they had already had their breakfast and would be sitting there for hours so we decided to go to Charlotte.

I went to the Shumway Marina first and found CharBay(Charlotte/Irondequoit Bay) CB as Joyce has named her. CB was on the northeast corner of the old railroad trestle bridge. I was distracted for a second and missed where she flew to next. I got a tweet some minutes later saying she was on the north side. I couldn’t see her from my location so I drove over to the Charlotte boat launch  where I found CarolP and KathyO.

Soon after Dana arrived and joined the watch. While CB just hung out we fed the many ducks,Canadian geese and swans. A gull came flying in wearing a transmitter just like our girl Quest wears!

Notice the antenna coming off the gulls back

I left to get gas in the truck and while I was gone Carol and Dana told me that CB had chased a crow away and flew to the north end of the trestle to start munching on cached food.

CB left the area so Carol and Dana said they were going home. I went back to Shumway Marina on the other side of the river but saw nothing.

I went to Kodak Park and met up with Joycie. Lady Pefa was nowhere to be found so we decided to go to the Irondequoit Bay Bridge and see if CB was there. We didn’t find her at first but Joyce luckily witnessed her going after a Red -tail Hawk. She flew up to the bridge and landed on a lamp post.

We watched until dark when CB flew off and down on the north side of the bridge. We were watching from the south side so we couldn’t see if she went under the bridge to roost for the night. Another fun filled day with my fellow falcon watchers was over. 🙂

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