By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was dark, overcast and snowing throughout my watch with a temperature of 25 (F) -4 (C)

I managed to see 3 Peregrine falcons today-2 I could identify and one I could not! After finding an empty elevator shaft I drove over to the Broad St. bridge where I spotted a falcon on a northeast corner of Bausch & Lomb. In the low light snowy conditions I knew I wasn’t close enough to ID this Peregrine so I drove around to the east side and stopped on Broad St. by Midtown.

I was looking at the back of the bird so my next move was up to the top of the South Ave. garage. Just as I got up there and stopped the falcon flew off B&L right above me and heading northwest toward OCSR. Back down to the ground I went and over to the Radisson Hotel by Main St. where I found a falcon on the south side ledge of the elevator shaft, and guess what-it had its back to me!

I couldn’t see much better with my binoculars so I couldn’t positively identify it as any more than a falcon. I went down to Bragdon Place to check the north side ledge but only thought that I could see the form of a falcon tucked way in-couldn’t say for sure. That was about the size of my downtown watch today as I left at 8:30am. I thought that would be the end of my falcon watch but after going to the grocery store I spotted Billie and 99 on the north side of Seneca Towers on the top (22nd floor) window ledge from the intersection of St. Paul and East Ridge Road. I pulled into the parking lot of the Northridge Church to observe.

They were very close to each other as they stand perched in the snow, watching their surroundings and each other.

I made a video of them and tweeted it out-when I looked back up there they were both gone. I saw them for less than 5 minutes but it was enough to send me home smiling at 9:40am! 🙂

Click on the links below to see today’s videos

http://youtu.be/6YSLq889aE0

http://youtu.be/JfUZqlpTbhM

http://youtu.be/wtmFbQ57Hfo

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