By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

I must say the weather this week has been a roller coaster ride-up and down with the temps. Today when I stepped out of the house it was 39 degrees (F) 4 (C) Tomorrow we aren’t supposed to get out of the teens!  There was light rain falling throughout my watch with a busy breeze and overcast skies

I found Beauty around 7:10am on the east side of Bausch & Lomb northeast corner and she was eating-her favorite spot lately.

She stopped 5 minutes later and flew across to a southeast corner on that east side and cached her leftovers. She went up near the building where I couldn’t see her then came shooting out and flew west toward Times Square (TSB).

I caught up with the Beautyful one whom I could see from the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) on the deck next to the main cam. She didn’t stay long and flew up under the southeast wing of TSB.

I was now parked down in the hole behind He’s Chinese. After 10 minutes Beauty flew off to the east with a quiet, short vocalization and as I turned my head to watch I saw another falcon, had to be Dot.Ca (DC) fly with her near the Mercury statue. They disappeared over the river where I couldn’t see them. I drove up to the BSB to look for them but I couldn’t pull over as the bridge was all full up with cars for a 5K run downtown this morning. Beauty was under the northeast  wing so I went back to the hole.  At just before 8am i saw DC fly to Widows Walk (WW) and land on the east side on the ledge below where the railing level is located.

He then walked to the north side and went out of view around the corner so I drove over to Fitzhugh St. where I could see him pull out cached food that was up there and start eating.

DC acted nervous like maybe he was afraid Beauty might catch him with her cache and after 5 minutes he left with his prize headed toward TSB chirping. As I was stopped at the traffic light at Exchange and Broad St. I saw beauty fly to the nest box area and when i got back to the hole I could see DC under the northeast wing nibbling on what was left of the pigeon leftovers. I couldn’t see Beauty from there so I went back up on the BSB to see if she was still at the nest box. I found her on the deck by the main cam.

Back to the hole again where I could park I spent the next half  hour watching DC  perched on the edge of the northeast wing ledge next to his stolen cache. Every once in a while the wind would make the wing on the prey bird move and startle DC, making him lose his balance. It was pretty funny to watch.

Finally, he could take no more and flew off to the north leaving the magical moving wing behind.

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I left for a check of the Brighton Site but when I arrived at 8:50am Pigott was not there. As I pulled into the east side parking lot I spotted a crow fly off the east extension with cached food-this is the 2nd time this week I’ve witnessed a crow stealing cached food at BS. This is why falcons go after crows, because they’re  thieves! lol   On my way back downtown I stopped to take pics of the ice jam on the Genesee River between the Ford St. Bridge and downtown.

I found blocked roads along the way and after making my way around to the hole I spotted Beauty on the top ibeam of OCSR near the south corner. She had a great seat for the St. Patricks Day parade that would be passing below on Main St. From where I was parked on Aqueduct St. I could see Main St. where they were setting up the grandstand for the parade.

I ended my watch at 9:30am before I got blocked in but before I left our fair city I took a couple pics of the festivities.The vendors by the Radisson Hotel, the green line painted on Main St. and a row of Irish flags.

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That’s all she wrote folks-with a smile! 🙂

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