By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Well I must say that after a little over 2 hours into my watch with no sightings I was getting a bit perplexed! I drove to the pedestrian bridge at high falls to see what I could find there and just as I started to get out of the truck I spotted a bump under the platform waaay over on the Frontier Communications Tower. Patience is a beautiful thing to have when you’re a bird watcher of any kind! So I drove over to the City Hall parking lot to see who I would be sharing space with…The Beautyful one!

I watched Beauty preen and just perch there being her usual pretty self  when she decided to move in further under the platform.

I thought she was all cinched in for a nap and since it was just about time for me to go home I was going to wrap it up. One nanno second before I tweeted it out she flew off to the southeast out of view and then reappeared landing on her favorite perch under the platform. Then out of nowhere Archer flew right in front of her going southeast also and came back to land directly above Beauty on the platform railing.

It had been a quiet Sunday morning up until this point. Beauty started whining at Archer while he did his best to pay no attention her. Aggravated by his ability to ignore her she flew over to the other side of the tower under the platform where I couldn’t see her and continued with her barrage of whining getting louder as time went on.

I left the parking lot and drove down on Fitzhugh St.to my spot in front of the sister cities parking garage to try and locate Beauty with no luck but she was in there somewhere under the platform whining. After 15 solid minutes of this Archer left flying in the general direction of the Times Square building with Beauty shooting out right behind him. I thought they had probably gone to the nestbox so I tweeted that I was leaving,  made a u-turn to head up to Main St. to go home and then I spotted Beauty on Widows Walk.

Yup, she was still WHINING!!! I tweeted it out saying goodbye again and as I started driving again she flew over to Times Square where she met up with Archer as I went the opposite direction to go home. There was a bit of sunshine this morning so I took advantage and shot many pics of our Rochester Peregrine Falcons. You’ll find them at the link below. Have a great day everyone! 🙂

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