By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

This morning was cool,clear and crisp with a starting temp of 55 (F) 13 (C)- my kind of weather!

It wasn’t until 6:30am that I found  a falcon this morning and it was Dot.Ca (DC) first rather than Beauty. He was on the top ibeam northeast side of OCSR.

I stayed with him for about 15 minutes when I decided to look for Beauty. From the Andrews St. bridge I spotted a falcon on Kodak Office-northeast corner of launchpad. As I made my way over there from Platt and State St. I saw it take off into a blazing fast stoop toward the river. When it didn’t come back I went back to DC finding him with a visitor-the Beautyful one. They were somewhat close to each other on the top ibeam northeast side-he was by the north corner and she was further down from him.

<DC <Beauty Click on pics for full version

I stayed with them for a few minutes and left to check the Hawkeye plant for that juvie I saw there the other day. I lucked out as it was there on the south side railing in front of the nest box. FYI-it’s about 2.5 miles from Times Square to Hawkeye by car-less than that for a flying falcon.

I could not positively ID it because of the distance I was from it. A couple pics I thought I saw red on the right leg and others looked like blue. If it is one of ours red would make it Voyager and blue-Rosetta. I started walking across the big empty and blocked off parking lot but before I could get even half way the little stinker took off to the northwest. I snapped off a couple pics and made a small video of some of its flight.

<Blue? Red?> < Click it

I then went to the Brighton location but Pigott wasn’t there. Next was 590 at Blossom and Browncroft Blvd. to look for the juvie that’s been seen over there. Again like yesterday the only birds I saw on the light poles were pigeons. Since I was in Brighton I went back to look for Pigott again but no luck in finding her. KathyO pulled up next to me real quick on her way to work. Back over to Hawkeye again but the juvie was not there. I ended up on the Andrews St. Bridge where I spotted a falcon bump under the platform on the Frontier Communications Tower.

I drove over to City Hall and observed DC from the south and north ends of the City Hall building because of where he was located at first-immediately under the platform on the east side.

<Taken from south end <From north end

Soon after DC hopped his way out to a north side beam and that’s where I left him, thus ending my watch at 10:00am.

I saw 3 falcons on my watch today certainly good reason to smile! 🙂

Click on the links below to view more pics and videos

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWqilk

http://youtu.be/JJPdCMHZmfM
http://youtu.be/ytUSvRXA0qs
http://youtu.be/qsuUwAg2fkc
http://youtu.be/Z8U5D8OhSIM

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