By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was misting and the sky over downtown was very dark as I made my way down St. Paul St. to start my morning watch. A starting temperature of 63 (F) 17 (C) to start-the sun was in and out during my 4.5 hour watch

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I started todays watch with Dot.Ca (DC) who was on the top ibeam south corner of OCSR.  I parked at the Radisson Hotel by Main St. to watch him.

DC flew off to the south and returned to the same spot on OCSR and a short time later he flew east out of view.

I left to look on the east side for him and spotted a juvie on the northeast corner of Xerox-KathyO let me know that she was north of Xerox and could see it too, I was on Court St. by HSBC. As we were communicating with each other the juvie left and neither one of us saw what direction it went.

We decided to meet on the Broad St. Bridge and ride around in her car to look for PEFAs. After no luck from the ground we went up on the South Ave. Garage roof-from there Kathy spotted a falcon on the Time Warner cell tower across the river. We took a ride over and parked in the Time Warner parking lot and sat on a picnic table while we observed what we thought at first was a juvie. I was concentrating on the legs to get a pic of the right band-I got one, but it puzzled us because it was silver but had yellow feet. Tesh is silver with blue feet, so we thought maybe it was Nettie and that her tape had fallen off. Well when this falcon showed her front I could see that it was in fact, the Beautyful one.

Kathy then noticed another falcon on a beam behind Beauty and he started chirping-it was DC begging for food that she had.  Beauty started plucking feathers and DC started to whine-no peace for her even when the kids aren’t around! lol

DC flew over to join Beauty on her beam and she stopped eating immediately. He made a couple crouched advances toward her, as if he was trying to intimidate her into giving up her prize-I guess I don’t have to tell ya he failed and after a minute or two he returned to the  beam he came from.

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Beauty started eating again only to stop again a few minutes later. Kathy and I left to get my car from the BSB as I was about ready to end my watch. We were going to meet at the pedestrian bridge at High Falls(I usually stop there on my way home)-I was half way there when Kathy tweeted seeing a falcon on the southwest corner of Xerox. I doubled back and as I pulled over on Woodbury St. Kathy tweeted seeing another falcon on the southwest corner of Bausch & Lomb (B&L). I confirmed Beauty on B&L and DC on Xerox.

DC  took Beautys place and she went to another corner below him and started eating again.

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I ended my watch smiling at 10:30am after sharing space with the resident Rochester Peregrine Falcons! 🙂

Click on the links below to view todays videos
http://youtu.be/gRlD-4WVD8o

http://youtu.be/1nUcNYjuao0

http://youtu.be/9MIH1lECdao

http://youtu.be/5tbetxhiT7I

http://youtu.be/HgnzFnP_sk8

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