By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

I woke up to rain and fog with a temperature of 64 (F) 18 (C). It rained on and off during my entire watch with humid and dark conditions

After 2 trips around downtown I finally came upon the Beautyful one -she was on the heel of Mercury. I started in the hole at Bank Place and Aqueduct St. then I went up on the Broad St. Bridge to share space with her. She took off 25 minutes later flying very fast over the river to the south.

Pigeons scattered and I thought perhaps Beauty had caught one but I didn’t see anything in her talons and a split second later 2 juvies appeared out of nowhere to chase Beauty over Blue Cross Arena and the Democrat and Chronicle buildings before disappearing behind the Times Square building.

As I was on Broad St. at Plymouth Ave. I saw Nettie fly to the west side railing of Widows Walk (WW). She was quite alert as she did a little preening and looking over her surroundings.

Nettie had started out with her back to me but turned around to face me thankfully. She had a nice bulge in her crop to show that she had eaten recently. She did some posing for me.

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Miss Nettie then turned around again to give me her back doing it in style by spreading her wings and making a show of it.

I left her to look for the other 5 Rochester falcons. I eventually found Beauty on the top ibeam west corner of OCSR and after a bit spotted Nettie up under the northeast wing of Times Square. After a few minutes she started squawking and flew off to the north. I figured Beauty had left OCSR and that’s why Nettie had vocalized.

I drove over to Plymouth Ave. to check around and ended up on Fitzhugh and Church St. where I found Beauty on the northeast corner of City Place, one of the juvie girls on the beige roof and Mercury on the north side roof. Dana was also out watching and I joined her by the Sister Cities parking garage.

Mercury was eating as his head would pop up and down, in and out of site. When he was finished he stood up into full view, feaked on the roofs edge and walked east to take a look at his sister.

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Beauty flew off to the Frontier Communications Tower across from City Place and landed below the large disk near the northeast corner.

I decided to call it quits and told Dana I would take a ride around to look for the other juvies before heading out. I didn’t find any but as I approached Seneca Towers where I live on the 16th floor, I spotted Veteran from Seth Green Drive on my way in-he was on the northwest corner railing. This is his and Luzernes’ favorite spot to hang out on the building.

I ended my watch with a big old smile after seeing him! 🙂

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