By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

3:50 – 5:30 pm

Before I arrived downtown to search for Beauty and Dot.ca, I received the following tweets from Joyce.

3:17 pm – There is a pretty girl sitting on the NW corner of the W ext. Pigott is facing south with her head turning in every direction.

3:37 pm – On BSB…nothing in sight from here except a feast of pigeons on the South St Garage.

3:49 pm – DT: Checked FCT, KO, WW, and even elevator shaft…no falcons found. Heading north.

When I arrived downtown at 3:50 pm, I looked all over for Beauty and Dot.ca and could find neither of them.  The only falcon I saw was a Kestrel on top of an antenna on the Federal Bldg.

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Since I couldn’t find Beauty and Dot.ca, I headed over to the BS location.  Pigott was on the north west corner of the west extension.

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While I was at BS, Joyce texted that she was at Russell Station at the lake (Ontario) and had found no falcons there.

At 4:45, I was losing light fast.  Pigott perked up and crouched like a cat ready to pounce.  Just then, Dot.ca flew in and landed on a window on the south side of the west extension.  As he arrived both started to loudly ee-chup in greeting to each other.  Pigott took off and flew close by him and landed on a west facing window.

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I left both Pigott and Dot.ca at BS to check out the downtown area one more time, hoping to find Beauty.  I figured it was a good bet that she was up inside the OCSR elevator shaft and I was right.  Beauty was up there on the south side ledge.  Seems to be her side.  I could just barely see her in the dark.

Kathy O tweeted out from the BS location at 5:11 pm – BS falcon report – quick stop after work in time to see nw falcon take off fast going west .. Only one falcon seen .. Too dark to tell who.

At 5:13 pm, all kinds of loud ee-chupping sounded from the OCSR elevator shaft.  It was too dark by this time to see anything, but I do believe that Kathy saw Dot.ca leave BS and he arrived a few minutes later to join Beauty in the elevator shaft.  I was definitely hearing two falcons greeting each other.  I ended my watch at about 5:30 pm.

Here’s a picture of Beauty up inside the elevator shaft.  Can you see her?  lol

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I’ll leave you with a picture I took while I was caught in traffic on the Ford St Bridge.  My view of the sun-setting on the south side of the bridge over the river.  You can see some of the Crows flying overhead.  Goodnight everyone!

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