By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Thankfully today is the last day for shortened morning watches for me.  An hour isn’t always long enough to find and observe our Rochester falcons, especially these days. They are not real easy to find at times. Just when I think Beauty has a regular pattern she switches it up on me. Like the last 2 days I first saw her under the northeast wing of the Times Square building. Here’s 2 pics from yesterdays watch.

I think a routine is born and bam this morning she blows that out of the water by being on the jail tower.  I haven’t seen her there in a long time. Go figure!

There was a little birdie dive-bombing her on the tower too just like on the Times Square building the last few days. The Beautyful one must have rubbed someone the wrong way! lol  Yesterday morning I got to spend about 15 minutes with her and today was less than 10 minutes before she was off flying to the north.

I drove from Troup St. onto Exchange St. and as I approached  Broad St. I saw a falcon fly in to the nestbox from the north side. Donna confirmed that it was Beauty and that she was in and out quickly. I turned down Aqueduct St. and took a pic of  the view from there. The crane that was used to repair Mercurys’  foot wings 2 or 3 weeks ago was in the Thomson Reuters parking lot.

I never saw Beauty again but I was happy to hear that Archer had met her around 5:00am at the nestbox after a 2 day absence there. Another broken pattern. Meanwhile over at KP Unity continues to hang out in the scrape as if there are eggs in there, but none of the watchers can see any eggs. Our Rochester falcons are certainly keeping us guessing this summer! I’ll end my report with a pic of the resident Great Blue Heron fishing in the Genesee River this morning. Have a great day falcon peeps! 🙂

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