By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Today is a triple D day…dark,damp and dreary!. I was parked on the Broad St. bridge after driving around for nearly an hour when I spotted a falcon over on the top arm of the FCT west side. I drove over to Fitzhugh St. and parked in front of the sister cities ramp garage to get a closer look. I determined that it was Archer. Not a good day for picture taking but I took some anyway!

He flew off when I wasn’t looking so I had no idea what direction he went in. I got a message from Donna that she wasn’t getting tweets on her phone from me or Carol but they were going to the forum. I thought it funny that I didn’t get a tweet from Carol this morning over at KP. Anyway, she told me Carol had 2 over there and so when Archer didn’t return to FCT I decided to see if he had gone to KP. If I found 3 falcons there then we would know Mr. C had been there earlier with Unity and CarolP. As luck would have it I went there in vain for all I saw was Starlings and Pigeons. Not a falcon in sight so…back downtown I went.  I found Archer on the platform railing west side of the FCT and he was sporting a FULL crop!

At times you could barely see his head over that huge packed full crop! I figure he had himself a nice breakfast while I went on a wild falcon chase over to KP looking for him!

I ended my watch with Archer preening himself and Beauty hiding from me.

Fellow falcon watcher Lynda was nice enough to pick me up for a watch last night. She had already been downtown and saw no falcons so we decided to try our luck at KP. We found Unity on the north side of the tall still top catwalk. We left to get a bite to eat and upon our return as we sit eating we didn’t notice a falcon on the pigeon box eating too! CarolP drove up and alerted us of the fact. It was getting darker out and this falcon seemed quite dark to us. We thought it might be another mystery falcon but we determined that it was probably Unity after Carol got the scope on it and saw black over red on it’s left legband. KathyO also joined us. After it was finished eating it took the remains up to the east stack second catwalk and cached it in a corner. Then it went out of view. We were down in lot 73 so Lynda and I decided to go up to lot 77 to see if we could find it. This falcon had gone up to the railing of the catwalk and it looked like Unity to me. I have put together an album from KP(link at bottom of this report). Notice the difference from when Lynda and I saw Unity on the tall still and when we all saw her(if it was her) on top of the pigeon box. Lighting is everything and so you be the judge…was it Unity or a different falcon? Have a great day everyone and smile often!  🙂

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