Morning watch 12-21-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
It was a bit brighter this morning with mostly cloudy skies and sun breaking out on and off with a temperature of 27 (F) -3 (C)
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I was treated to both Billie and 99 this morning to start my day at 7:30am. As I pulled over on Seth Green Drive I spotted Buffalo Billie on the west side railing and 99 on a pipe at the northwest corner of the roof.
They stayed like this for over half hour watching their surroundings and each other-just waking up along with me.
Just about 8am 99 flew off over the river, behind the tree and back to the south end of the building. Billie flew with him until he landed on the south end antenna. Billie flew past 99 then circled the building several times before landing the southwest corner of the roof below him.
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Around 8:15am Billie flew off to the southeast and 99 went right after her. They didn’t return so I left for downtown. On my way downtown Donna tweeted that she thought Beauty was on the Mercury money bag (MMB). Thanks to her for letting me know where to check first. I found Dot.ca (DC) there when I arrived.
DC flew off around 8:30am and ended up on the top of Times Square (TSB) on the southeast wing ring. I parked on Broad St. below as the sun came out to watch DC do some preening and stretching.
I left him to look for Beauty but I didn’t find her until I returned to see that DC was gone from the wing ring and now on the MMB with the Beautyful one below on the base of Mercury with food. I pulled over on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) to observe them
For the next 15 minutes or so Beauty worked on preparing and eating her meal while DC kept an eye on her and planned his strategy for getting some food from her. He had a pretty full crop so he really didn’t need any more to eat-or so I thought. DC flew off at 9:52am crossing the river to the east and doubling back to land by Beauty. He grabbed a small morsel and took it to the TSB to eat under the northeast wing.
Right around 10am DC finished eating and flew back over to Beauty to take more food-there was a scuffle, she held her ground this time and he flew off only to land on the other side of the base, then up onto the green for a few minutes. DC then scurried over and chased Beauty off as she took her leftovers with her.
As they got together in the air over the river DC ended up with the wing leftover-I don’t think Beauty wanted him to have it or I think she would have just left it on the base for him. Anyway, DC flew to the green part of the base of Mercury with the spoils and Beauty came over and landed on the base where she had been eating for a moment, then she flew up under the northeast wing of TSB. DC went to work on finishing off the leftovers. I chose to end my watch at this time, just shy of 10:30am.
Another great watch in the books after sharing space with all 4 Rochester Peregrine Falcons giving me good reason to smile! 🙂
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