By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was partly to mostly cloudy and humid with a temperature of 63 (F) 17 (C)

My watch started at Seneca Towers (ST) as I found Billie on the northwest corner railing fromthe parking lot at the north end of the building. I could hear the juvie whining but couldn’t find him after checking all sides of ST, so I believe he may have been on the roof out of view.

I left for downtown as I didn’t go there yesterday and I missed seeing those crazy juvies of Beauty and Dot.ca’s (DC)! I spotted a falcon on Crossroads northwest corner from the Andrews St. bridge-it flew off before I could get pulled over. Ended up in the hole by He’s Chinese and found Genesee on the northeast corner of Widows Walk. He got buzzed by a smaller bird, lost his balance and ended up on the roof inside the railing. He walked out to the north side and flew north. As I drove down Aqueduct St. to Main St. I spotted Beauty on the east side railing of the Powers building and DC on the southeast corner of Crossroads (CRX).

I drove to the Andrews St. bridge (ASB) and watched as Genesee flew in from the north past Beauty who flew off with him. She ended up landing on the top ibeam west corner of OCSR-Genesee flew over and forced her to fly off, then he knocked DC of CRX. Both parents ended up on the Powers building-Beauty near the nest box and DC on the east side railing. He flew off right away  and the Beautyful one soon after that. Meanwhile, Cadence was on the north end of the lower CRX roof taking it all in. I drove down to State St. to get closer to her as she was eating.

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I left her while she was still eating and found Beauty on the middle arm, DC on the top arm of the Frontier Communications tower (FCT). Genesee settled on the Powers building top railing north side. 10 minutes later DC stooped to the west out of sight and I turned to see Genesee was gone from Powers. The ladies stayed put!

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Just before 7am everybody disappeared from where they had been so I returned to the ASB to look around. DC was on the northeast corner of Powers and I saw Genesee in flight before landing on the northeast cube and taking off again to the south. I then went to check FCT and from the Hochstein School of Music parking lot I could see that DC was replaced on Powers by Genesee and Cadence had joined her brother-she was on the north side railing not too far from Genesee. She walked down close to him and they stayed that way until he jumped down to the roof. I returned to the School of Music parking lot at this time. Genesee kept popping in and out of the railing slats as sis looked for him. Too funny!

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Genesee left Cadence at some point and as I was just about to pull away Beauty and Genesee came into view as he stooped on a kestrel with mom right behind him. They chased a couple of them above the Sister Cities garage then flew south. That was so cool to see! Cadence left after that so did I  to look for everyone and I quickly found DC on the middle arm of FCT. His whiteness sticking out like a sore thumb. 20 minutes later I saw a juvie on the northeast corner and Beauty above it on the railing. I couldn’t see them clearly as the sun was right behind them. She moved down to the north side and I believe both juvies may have been on the roof out of sight.

I had to leave for a while and when I came back Beauty and DC were on FCT-she was on the bottom arm west side and he was under the platform on the north side. I couldn’t find the juvies so I figured they were hunkered down somewhere. Satisfied that all 4 downtown Rochester Peregrine Falcons had been seen safe and sound I left for home.

When I arrived on Seth Green Dr. I saw Seth fly from the northwest corner and a couple feet from there on the west side railing was the juvie I’m calling Bith. I took a quick pic then drove down to my parking lot on the east and south side of Seneca Towers (ST) to check the rest of the building on foot.

To my shocking surprise as I entered the lot Seth came flying through maybe 10 feet at the most above the ground in front of me and continued to the east over the 8ft. fence that surrounds the property. I certainly hope he isn’t teaching Bith to do such a crazy thing! I ended up on the west side near the pergola across from the main entrance of ST where Bith started out with his back to me. A few minutes later an adult must have been nearby as he turned around and started whining and dipping down like they do when there’s an incoming falcon. On a tree next to me I spotted the casing of a June bug.

An interesting looking insect came flying up to the tree and landed.

After it flew off I decided to do the same and ended my watch at 10:15am leaving Bith with his back to me as I had found him. Every time I think about the fact that I basically live with falcons a giant smile comes across my face! 🙂

Click on the links below to see today’s videos

http://youtu.be/qFTam6FvQ0A

http://youtu.be/g1Tl3Ne183E

http://youtu.be/C7k35W7CcFM

http://youtu.be/DYU240ajqS0

http://youtu.be/vamZ5pPnsz0

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