By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

A beautiful morning for a watch with bright blue skies, sunshine and a temperature of 61(F) 16(C)

Dan was waiting for me on the Broad St. bridge (BSB) when I arrived at 5:20am. Beauty was on cam 4, the kids were up and out and Dot.ca (DC) was on the southwest top arm of the jail tower barely visible.

At about 5:40am DC went into a long stoop after a few pigeons but was unsuccessful landing on the Time Warner communications tower. Again, he was barely visible due to the distance.

Just before 6am DC stooped to the west and disappeared. He re-surfaced on the northeast wing ring for a few seconds  and then off he went and the chase was on.

He flew southeast over the Blue Cross Arena with amazing speed-caught up with some pigeons over the river past the Court St. bridge and stooped on them numerous times before giving up. He then went after a couple more pigeons on his way down the river toward Dan and I passing by us on the bridge only feet away after having to pull up or crash into the BSB! Zoom-what a thrill for us!!! He continued on flying over the Radisson Hotel to the north nad stooping a couple more times before doubling back heading south. DC sure did stir up all the pigeons from the Dinosaur BBQ on Court St. down to the Andrews St. bridge! He went behind Xerox on the east side and never came back in view. Dan and I just looked at each other with big ole smiles saying how that’s the kind of stuff that gets people hooked and makes us come back for more. WOW!

10 minutes later the Beautyful one took off over Cornhill splitting up 2 pigeons, hitting one and vanishing behind buildings. She didn’t catch it and returned to land on cam 1.

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Around 6:30am Genesee took on the wall, stopping on the first column before continuing on and eventually going to the north end of the wall.

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DC was over on the top ibeam south corner of OCSR -he took off after Beauty when she went behind the Times Square building (TSB). She returned and went to the nest box-DC went back to OCSR same spot.

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Dan left at 7am so I went down to the hole to be closer to Mr. Daring-Genesee. He went back out to the end of the wall again while his sister Cadence watched.

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Genesee went back to the deck and Beauty flew over to the heel of Mercury. I drove up to the BSB just in time to see her take off and go to the main cam. I looked toward the nest box and saw one of the kids in the boy cave-wasn’t there for long. Back to the hole I went!

As I arrived Beauty was gone and DC was on cam 1 with his back to me. If Donna (Thanks) hadn’t reported it was him I would have thought it was Beauty whom  I spotted  on the top ibeam near the south corner of OCSR. DC jumped down to the nest box and left soon after.

Around 8am Beauty ended up on cam 1 and DC was back over on OCSR watching the window washers from the top ieam south corner.

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I ended my watch at this point and headed home where I spotted a falcon north of Seneca Towers. What a busy 3 hour watch I had making me smile multiple times! 🙂

Click on the links below to see todays videos

http://youtu.be/hLm5M3g4f-k

http://youtu.be/yABUBQ85RZs

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