By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

YAY the humidity has left the area and cooler temps prevail today-as I left the house it was 61 (F) 16 (C) and refreshing. Still dark and overcast tho.

I found Beauty on HSBC on her favorite hunting spot lately-the southeast corner. She stayed for 15 minutes before standing up, turning in one direction only to take off in the opposite direction. The sequence of pics below will show you what I saw.

<Beauty starts turning to the northeast Then she takes off going southwest And off she goes

I took off after the Beautyful one and found her a few minutes later on the top ibeam south corner of OCSR. I think she was playing games with me today for this is usually the corner Dot.Ca (DC) perches on and that little turn one way and go the other way over at HSBC was different. I drove down to the hole first to check and make sure it was Beauty and not DC.

I decided to get even closer by going down to Graves St. by Aqueduct Park. She stayed there about 10 minutes whipping her head from one side to the other looking for prey. She flew off around the river side of OCSR and disappeared on the north side.

< Click it to see Beauty fly off OCSR

I thought maybe she had gone to the Frontier Communications Tower so I headed over there. When I didn’t find her there I drove to the Andrews St. Bridge-lo and behold she and DC were on OCSR top ibeam. Beauty was on the northeast side and DC was at the north corner. I then went over to Bragdon St. by the Radisson Hotel for a closer view. I barely got settled when Beauty took wing heading east leaving me for the 3rd time in less than an hour-funny girl!

DC stayed thankfully and after a couple shots from there I went back to the west side of the river on State St. to observe him as he had turned facing that way, plus I wanted to see if  Beauty was on that side which she wasn’t.

Forum member Christiane had posted that she has been seeing a juvie falcon on a light pole near the 590 exit at Blossom Rd. so after checking both Hawkeye and our Brighton site and finding no falcons I drove out there. I thought she had said the Browncroft Blvd. exit so that’s where I got off 590 and I was glad to because the rush hour traffic was crazy on 590. I checked light poles and trees in the area but didn’t see anything but pigeons. Bobbie from Ireland also posted having seen one near that area while back here in the states a while ago. I will go back tomorrow and check near the Blossom Rd. exit.

Upon returning downtown I could find no PEFAs so I ended my watch at 9:15am. Again, I saw Beauty and DC on my watch today giving me more than enough reason to leave smiling! 🙂

Click on the links below to view videos from my watch

http://youtu.be/yWcrFDbjaR0
http://youtu.be/vGaHbIui2f8
http://youtu.be/eX6j8cbnsVE

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