By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Hey everybody!

As I drove up to the Broad St. bridge this morning I first spotted his car and then I saw him. Who you ask? Why none other than Mayor Dan. My early morning fellow watcher Dan sitting in his lawn chair on the south side of the Broad St. bridge in his spot. What a feeling of joy that came over me. It was a long winter by myself in the darkness and cold of each morning. He greeted me with his larger than life smile and a big old bear hug and suddenly the cool 43 degree temperature felt warm to me. I caught him up on Quest,Lady Pefa  and Linn in Toronto and showed him my new camera. He was thrilled to see the pics I took of Beauty eating a small morsel who incidentally was on the base of Mercury when I arrived.

There were a couple people walking to work that stopped by and asked us if the falcons were back again this year. I guess when you set up your lawn chairs on a bridge at dawn to watch Peregrine falcons you are remembered! So back to my watch…Beauty flew off Mercury over the river heading east over the Rochester Convention Center(RCC)Chase Lincoln,Midtown and behind Bausch and Lomb and out of our view. Dan left at 7:00am and I got in the truck and cranked the heat to get warm as I made my u-turn to the north side of the Broad St. bridge facing the nestbox. DebbieH appeared just in time to see Beauty flying over the river and Rundell Library. She went into a stoop over the Dinosaur Barbeque where she left our field of view. Debbie went to work and I did a couple drive arounds without success ending my watch for the time being.

Fast forward to Kodak Park about 2 hours later. Sue decided to go on a watch with me while we were out running errands. She spotted a falcon fly to the pigeon box. It flew off  low near the ORB and up to the tall still landing on the back(north side) where we couldn’t see it from the parking lot. A few minutes later a falcon flew from behind the tall still to the second railing northeast side of the tall still. No doubt Lady Pefa judging from the size.

After about 45 minutes a falcon which I assumed was Archer flew out from behind the tall still heading east/southeast picking up speed as he flew and going out of sight. Lady Pefa stayed on the tall still but changed positions now facing where Archer had gone. 15-20 minutes later I spotted Archer flying from the southeast over the parking lot where Lady Pefa joined him. They flew together for a few minutes with Lady Pefa flying right over the top of us before they both flew to the northeast and disappeared. We had to leave but later on our way home we stopped by the parking lot of the bar My Apartment for a quick look at the back of  Kodak Park spotting Lady Pefa on the top railing of the still directly to the west(left) of the tall still. That’s all she wrote! 🙂

For more pics of todays watch here’s the link to my album

http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/sharing/shareRedirectSwitchBoard.jsp?token=824067722213%3A508564103&sourceId=533754321803&cm_mmc=eMail-_-Share-_-Photos-_-Sharer

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