By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Another frigid day in Rochester, NY.  When I woke up this morning, it was 6 degrees (F) with -16 windchill.  I hope that everyone affected by this bitter cold weather is keeping safe and warm.

This is just a quick report.  Everyday, when I leave work, I always check the two smoke stacks at the west end of Kodak Park aka Eastman Business Park.

During the day, I noticed that the pigeons that gathered on the building on the west side of Mt Read were flying frequently.  I kept checking to see if anything was chasing them, but I never did see anything.  Finally, at the end of my day, I found what may have been causing the pigeons panicked flight.

There was an adult Peregrine Falcon on the east side of the lower catwalk on the east stack.  It was on a small silver box that I have seen other falcons on.  Here are a couple of pics taken with the small Kodak camera that I had with me.

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Sorry that the quality of the pictures aren’t very good due to the distance.

So, is this a wintering falcon or possibly one of the locals?  Hopefully it will stay for awhile so we can ID our visitor.

Stay warm everyone!!!

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