By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P. (6:00 to 6:45 pm)

My evening watches are getting shorter and shorter.  It gets dark so quickly now.  🙁

Today the falcon activity in and around Rochester picked up, reported by Rochester Falcon Watchers throughout the day.  This morning MAK reported 3 Peregrine Falcons at the ST location.

At 4:00 pm, Dana reported the following, “RS falcon rpt- on my way home from work, I had a falcon in adult plumage on the top of antenna west side of RS? It flew south.”

Between 5 & 6:11 pm, Joyce reported seeing two falcons at ST and one at the Irondequoit Mall.

Joyce’s Tweets:

(5:02 pm) ST: Billie is on the SE corner railing.

(5:17 pm) ST: Billie flew east. Drove around block to follow. No luck, but upon return falcon on ledge above windows on south end of building.

(5:34 pm) Falcon on peak at Irondequoit Mall. Very white chest.

(5:59 pm) Falcon on peak flew west. Returned to ST to find 2. Lots of flying activity by female and tiercel. She had food and he was chasing.

(6:02 pm) Both on west side, She is on antenna and he is on railing.

(6:07 pm) Looks like Billie is preparing food. Tiercel has similar markings to one seen at Medley Center. Just caught small feather south of bldg.

(6:11 pm) Getting dark. Leaving the couple on the west side of ST.

My watch started at 6:00 pm.  As I approached Broad St, I could see a falcon on the west side of the jail communication tower on the 2nd arm down.  From a very busy Broad St Bridge, I could only see this one falcon.  I was losing light quickly, so I drove over to the Xerox Tower, hoping to find a 2nd falcon.  At 6:25, a falcon flew in and landed on the southwest corner of the Xerox Tower.  Ee-chupping vocalization filled the air.  A 2nd falcon had arrived on the south side of Xerox on the 5th column in from the southeast corner.

By this time it was too dark to see if the falcon on the corner was still there and I could just make out the falcon on the 5th column.  There was no way for me to positively ID them as Beauty and Dot.ca, but based on behavior I do believe it was.

I ended my watch at 6:45 pm.  The Rochester Falcon Watchers will definitely be out keeping an eye on things and reporting what we see.  Goodnight everyone!

I’ll leave you with a picture of the Xerox Tower showing where Dot.ca and Beauty were located this evening.

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