By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Joyce and Brian picked me up this afternoon to go over to Kodak for a watch. When we arrived Dan,Lynda and Dana were there. Lady Pefa was on the tall still. Dana and Linda left and Joyce and I decided to go down to parking lot 73 for a closer look at Archer who was on the corner of the blue building black strip near the nook and Lady Pefa was in the pigeon poop hole where we think their scrape is.

As we were taking pics Archer took off flying east and Lady Pefa flew to the antenna on the building at the east end of lot 77. We lost track of Archer and jumped in the car to go up there. Joyce knew this was a chance to positively ID her because she had on another occasion with CarolP gotten a pic of Lady Pefas’ legband. We needed another confirmation of the legband to make it official. There she was looking magnificent in the late day sun. We clicked away with our cameras until she left and flew to the tall still.

We joined Dan and Brian and looked at our pics in anticipation. BINGO we both had pics that when we zoomed them it was clear that her legband read the same as Joyces’ previous ID: Black 71 over Red H. From this point forward she would be known as Unity from Toledo,OH!

CarolP was down in parking lot 73 so we drove down to join her and share our news with her. We left to go downtown for a check of things and we found Archer on the top ibeam south side of the OCSR building. He was snoozing and I remarked that he should be for all the energy he is expending these days. We dropped Brian off home and came to my place to look at our pics on the computer screen. What a thrill it was to be part of IDing our newest Rochester falcon Unity! 🙂

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