By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Another dark, overcast morning in our fair city with a starting temperature of 40 (F) 4 (C)

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I made my way over to the east side of the city after checking everywhere else and found not one, but two falcons. I think you know them-Beauty, who was on the 6th column and Dot.Ca (DC) who was on the 4th column from the southeast corner of Xerox on the south side.

I watched them for half hour as they faced each other turning their heads here and there to look for prey birds. While I was cleaning the lens on my camera Beauty took off. About a minute later DC flew off as well and joined Beauty above Xerox where they flew together momentarily then left my field of vision. I caught up with DC as he went to Times Square and came to rest under the northeast wing.

I parked on Exchange Blvd. by the main entrance to the Blue Cross Arena for the best view of him. At 8:11am DC flew south behind me then back above me headed northeast, quickly disappearing behind the Philipone building. A few seconds later Beauty came into view from the west-she flew due east in the direction I last saw DC and she disappeared behind Crossroads.

I went in search of and as I landed on the Broad St. bridge I spotted DC on the northeast corner of Crossroads. I first drove down to Graves St. where I took a couple pics and decided I’d see him best from State St. across from the Rochester Plaza Hotel. Unfortunately, he was gone when I got there.

As I check my tweets I see that I forgot to report that I found DC at 8:50am back on Xerox after searching the city. He was on the 4th column from the southeast corner south side where he had been earlier when the Beautyful one was on the 6th column.

DC left the building without me seeing around 9am. I decided to end my watch at this point but as I got to the Kodak Office tower  I spotted Beauty on the southeast corner of the launchpad so naturally I pulled over on State St. to hang out with her for a few minutes.

Beauty flew south at 9:20am and I flew north to Seneca Towers where I ended my watch at 9:35am after finding no falcons there. Keep smiling everyone-it makes people wonder what you’re up to! 🙂

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