By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

When stepped out the house today I was greeted by about 6-8 inches of snow which added to the 4 or 5 from yesterday afternoon. I got the snowblower out and made my way out of the driveway to a street that wasn’t plowed, but I made it to the main roads and to downtown where not as much snow fell. The temperature was 20 (F) -7 (C) with overcast skies and virtually no wind. Halfway thru my watch it began to snow

I had no luck finding a falcon downtown in the first 45 minutes but I found a pretty wreath on St. Marys church and the tree at the South Ave. garage was looking pretty with snow on it and speaking of snow-I love it ,so naturally I like lit up snow flakes as well!

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I left to try my luck at the Brighton Site (BS)-arriving at 8am I drove around the property and didn’t see a falcon but on my 2nd trip around I spotted Pigott fly in from the east and land on the southeast corner of the east extension.

After 20 minutes of watching Miss Pigott preen she suddenly went into a crouched position as if another falcon was near and sure enough Dot.Ca (DC) had flown in with prey and was plucking feathers from it on the southeast corner of the southeast extension by the roof top tree. This is one of his favorite eating spots.

DC pulled his package back from the edge and continued to eat while Pigott watched from across the way. After 15 minutes passed she flew south and returned to the same spot and then DC flew over and chased her off landing in her spot with a small piece of food as she left the area for a minute or two.

<DC    Pigott>

When Pigott returned she knocked DC off her corner and took it over while he flew to the opposite end of the east extension on the northeast corner with the little bit that was left of his piece of food. It had started to snow tiny little flakes at this time.

Miss Pigott flew over to him but he wasn’t going to vacate his spot or his tidbit so she flew over to the tree corner and had a small bite to eat from whatever he left there, then she went back to the southeast corner of the east extension. He finished up and went back to the tree corner had a few more bites. I left them staring at each other from their spots to go look for Beauty. It was snowing harder downtown than it had been at BS making it hard to find the Beautyful one but I did spot her salmon color on the south side Kodak Office arch.

That’s all she wrote- I ended my watch at 9:20am smiling after having seen that all 3 resident Rochester Peregrine Falcons had weathered the storm just fine! 🙂

Click on the links below to view videos from my watch

http://youtu.be/GtYldg2ugB0
http://youtu.be/PV6-FmCH9DU
http://youtu.be/IL7CiJznANE
http://youtu.be/4Yx5uDP8HPM

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