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Eyes to the Skies

Morning watch 11-22-13

By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Up and down our temperature goes these days-today it was 42 degrees (F) 6 (C) when I started my watch with dark overcast skies and a persistent misty rain

I found Beauty about 7:20am near the south corner top ibeam of OCSR. I don’t think she was liking the misty rain that was falling  as she flew to the elevator shaft for shelter from it 15 minutes later. I left my spot in the hole and parked by the Radisson Hotel near Bragdon St. on the east side of the river in order to see up in there.

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She was obviously down for the count so I went over to Brighton arriving around 8:15am. Dot.Ca (DC) was on the west end of the south side vent. I wasn’t sure it was him at first because he wasn’t looking like his bright white self,  but once I saw the heart shape on his malar stripe I was convinced. DC flew off about 5 minutes later.

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I made a trip around the building and when I got to the west side I spotted a falcon on the roof by the tree. It flew to the north as I started to pull over. Another trip around brought me right back to the west side where I now had 2 falcons on the upper and lower southwest corners of the northwest extension. Pigott was on the lower and DC the upper.

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DC soon walked down and over onto the roof where I couldn’t see him and Pigott flew up to the upper corner to see what he was doing. This is a favorite eating spot for them so maybe he was looking for scraps.

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DC then came back out to the edge and flew off and Pigott went back down to the lower corner.

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A couple minutes later Pigott flew up to the upper corner one more time before flying off.

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Miss Pigotts’ wing feathers looked a bit rough I think because they were wet and sticking together. I drove to the back of the building the south side and found DC on the southwest corner of the southeast extension. He was perched up there looking around at his territory and doing some hand signals with his big yellow feet!

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I then caught movement out of the corner of my eye to the left and found Pigott on the southwest extension on an east facing window. She was doing some preening on those much in need feathers.

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Around 9:20am DC left the building as Pigott remained on the window preening. I left to go back downtown and as I made my way around looking for DC I came across a big eye painted on a brick building on St. Paul St that I just had to take a pic of-very cool looking.

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I went to Bragdon St. and found that the Beautyful one was still up in the elevator shaft of  OCSR. I ended my watch at 9:45am with a smile from sharing space with all 3 resident Rochester Peregrine Falcons! 🙂

Click on the links below to view some videos

http://youtu.be/nzsvKVQyxcI
http://youtu.be/si1sqtNlMQg
http://youtu.be/Q29tQydZFbY
http://youtu.be/MUwhoZzsFdc

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