By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

I’m loving these cooler temperatures as it was 56 (F)  13 (C) when I headed out this morning at 5:30am. It was mostly cloudy with a chilly breeze.

It was 25 minutes into my watch before I saw a falcon. I had been all over downtown looking for them when I stopped on the Court St. Bridge and noticed a fledgling fly in from the northeast and land under the northeast wing of the Times Square building (TSB). I drove down to the hole by He’s Chinese to check it out. As I arrived and took a look I was now seeing 2 juvies up there.

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Soon after the fledgling on the right flew off and returned shortly after. Seconds after that our 3rd fledgling flew in and landed under the northeast wing with its siblings totally catching me off guard as you can see the pic is totally out of focus.

Just seconds later the juvies  one at a time flew off and started playing talon tag as they circled their birth building-Times Square several times. I lost sight of them  but I did find one on Widows Walk southeast corner of the railing. It didn’t stay there long as its siblings came streaking thru enticing it to join them. They all flew off to the northwest. The Broad St. Bridge (BSB) was my next stop and I found Dan there when I arrived. He had seen an adult on Kodak Office (KO) when he first went on watch. As we watched and waited for some action Dan pointed out a rainbow that had formed in the western sky.

Just the north end of the rainbow was peeking thru an opening in the clouds and the slightest lighting change effected the 2 pics which I thought was kinda cool. We also were being entertained by the many bug catchers flitting and flying in our faces, within reach at times. I’m glad their sonar was working cuz I thought we would be wearing one before they were done!  Larry came by to join us about 6:50am and 5  minutes later I spotted Dot.Ca (DC) on the southwest corner of Xerox.

Dan left as Larry and I witnessed DC fly around to the back of Xerox only to come back in view landing on the northwest corner now.

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DC flew off Xerox again and soared above it briefly before disappearing in the eastern sky. Larry and I drove that way and found DC now perched on the southeast corner of Xerox.

Larry had to get going so after getting a tweet from cam watcher BC (Thank you) saying there was a falcon on the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT) I headed over to City Hall to take a peak. Approaching from Plymouth Ave. I could see a falcon on the south platform railing but when I arrived it was gone. I left to check at our Brighton site (BS) but was disappointed to find nobody home.

Returning to downtown around 8am from the BSB I spotted Beauty on the top ibeam of OCSR near the south corner. Enroute to a closer spot I noticed a juvie on the northwest corner of the Widows Walk railing.

I watched the juvie for a bit then drove over to Main St. by the Radisson Hotel to watch the Beautyful one.

I left her after 20 minutes and while stopped at the traffic light at Main and State St. facing east I noticed the glass on the Crossroads building showing a great reflection of the clouds and Powers building.

I next found a juvie on the FCT top arm-I couldn’t get a positive ID on it but I think it was Baron as when it flew off to the northeast it looked small like a tiercel (male falcon).

I checked from different angles around the tower but never could get a good shot of this young fledgling.  No matter, because I saw all 3 of our youngsters earlier in my watch and I also saw their fabulous falcon parents Beauty and DC. I ended my watch at 9am-not too exciting but a successful watch and I’ll smile about that every time! 🙂

One video link below for you to click and view

http://youtu.be/121T_TFKnNM

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