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Morning watch 2-26-14

By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

10 degrees (F) -12 (C) was what hit me when I walked out the door this morning-factor in the wind and it feels like -7 (F). Spring where are you?

I was unsuccessful in finding Beauty at the start of my watch this morning so I went to the Brighton site (BS) where I was met by the tail feathers of  Dot.Ca (DC). He was on the southeast corner of the east extension eating. Pigott was on the southeast extension top row east facing window.

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DC finished up eating within a few minutes and flew over to the southeast extension  landing on the next set of windows to the left of Pigott who crouched down as he passed by. Miss Pigott had a fascinator stuck to her beak again but managed to knock it off with her talon as DC did some cleaning up and preening.

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Another rushed watch so I couldn’t stay very long-I left them and returned to downtown to look for the Beautyful one. As I approached from Exchange Blvd. I caught Beauty flying out from the nest box area heading toward OCSR. I drove down to the hole and to my surprise DC  was on the top ibeam near the south corner and Beauty was further down closer to the elevator shaft. He must have followed me when I left BS and of course beat me downtown as he has no traffic or traffic lights to deal with! lol

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I left the hole to go over to my spot by the Radisson Hotel and Main St. for a different view. The sun was shining on them so brightly that it washed them out.

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While I was looking elsewhere Beauty managed to move down to the corner of the ibeam where it meets the elevator shaft and got tucked in out of the wind.

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I had to go to an appointment so I ended my watch around 8:40am with a smile after seeing all 3 Rochester Peregrine Falcons! 🙂

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