By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Yet another frigid start to the day here in Rochester with a beautiful sunrise sky on the horizon-at 2 degrees (F) -17 (C) my camera and I struggled to get in focus pics as the sunrise turned into dark overcast skies

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The sky makes the city look tiny doesn’t it?

So after having another UT in town yesterday I got started earlier today on watch finding 2 falcons on the east side of the city at 6:40am. Beauty was on Bausch & Lomb (B&L)  on the southeast corner of the south side when I first spotted her from Woodbury St. and a falcon was on the northwest corner of Xerox.  As I made my way around to Broad St. I found that they had both switched-she was now on the northeast corner of the east side of B&L  eating and he was on the northeast corner of Xerox.

<Beauty UT?

I believe it was UT but can’t say for sure-I only saw his back. I say this because when Beauty finished eating I heard the male chupping and squeaking and it did not sound like Dot.Ca (DC), then she flew off followed by him a few seconds later. They flew west out of view around 7:05am.

<Beauty

As I approached on the Broad St. bridge (BSB) I saw 2 falcons flying south of the Times Square building (TSB)-one kept going south (if it was indeed a falcon) and the other went back to OCSR flying in front of the nest box area and then Beauty suddenly shot out from near nest box area and chase after the other smaller falcon,I think it was UT, behind TSB where I lost them. I went looking for them and ended up on the Andrews St. bridge when Donna let me know that Beauty was on cam 1. Thanks for the help! I drove directly to the hole and saw Beauty and also a male up above her under the northeast wing with his back to me. The cold would not allow for a good focus on my camera so I had trouble when I did see the side of the face in identifying it as either UT or DC .

Turns out it was DC on TSB so I don’t know if he chased UT out earlier when I thought I saw the 3 falcons and lost sight of them for 15 minutes-that seems most likely. I left for the Brighton site (BS) and when I got there at 8:10am there were no falcons present. Upon my return to downtown Beauty was still on cam 1 and DC still under northeast wing. I pulled over in front of  the Blue Cross Arena for a side view.

<Beauty DC>

Beauty flew off cam 1 as I was watching DC and I wouldn’t have known where she went if Shaky hadn’t tweeted out that she was on the base of Mercury. Thanks Shakymon! I went up to the BSB where I could see her and DC.

<Beauty

Well, I don’t know if UT is out there watching or if he left the area but hopefully DC didn’t hurt him. All was quiet as I ended my watch at 9:10am. Keep smiling everyone! 🙂

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http://youtu.be/fMwKekp0Xak
http://youtu.be/ZkbjsTpZw-c

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