By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

I’m happy to say that spring may have arrived in Rochester as I started my watch above freezing with a temperature of 33(F) 1(C) Once the sun broke thru the horizon it was shining bright with blue skies

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I drove to the east side first as I have the last week or so and was surprised to not see Beauty or Dot.ca (DC) on Legacy Tower (LT) eating. Well it looks like the weather has changed their usual morning routine from eating on LT then meeting at Kodak Office to digest. I found them when I stopped on the Broad St. bridge (BSB)-DC was on the green part of the base of Mercury eating and Beauty was on the top I-beam southeast side with her back to me.

DC stopped eating after hearing Beauty whining then they both met at the deck where DC handed over his leftovers to Beauty. She flew to the base of Mercury with DC’s food gift, part of courting.

I moved down to Basin St. in the hole to watch both of them as DC went up to perch on cam 1.

I missed filming a bit of the next sequence of events-it goes like this: Beauty finished eating did some feaking while keeping an eye on DC and he was watching her as well. She moved to the back corner of the base and watched him as he flew in, then she went to the opposite corner(of course the only one I couldn’t see from the hole and they mated. I got a snippet (a bad pic) of the end as DC flew off her back side and returned to cam 1. The Beautyful one then came forward where I could see her.

Now while I was tweeting all this they both disappeared. I spotted the back of Beauty on the deck-cam watcher Campgee and watcher KathyO let me know that DC was in the nest box. Thanks gals! After 5-10 minutes DC came out the nest box and went back up to cam 1 as Beauty turned around so I could see the front of her.

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Beauty came out next to the min cam and turned her back to the sun. It stayed this way for the remainder of my downtown watch, the 3 of us hanging out together bonding. 🙂

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I figured the cam watchers could keep track of them so I headed for Seneca Towers. I went to the Northridge Church parking lot to check the north end of the building arriving about 8:15am. From there I could see Billie on the northwest corner with a full crop.

A few minutes later Buffalo Billie spotted 99 as he flew up and joined her. I saw him pick up a piece of food and at the same time she picked up and dropped a tidbit of her own and then they got settled.

Billie turned away after doing some cleaning up and that’s the way I left occasionally gazing into each other’s eyes.

And that’s all she wrote-I left them just before 10am, smiling as I went. 🙂

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