By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was sunny with blue skies and a temperature of 59 (F) 15 (C)

Just a quick report today since Donna and her daughter Kara, will be here within the hour for Watchers Weekend from New Jersey. I started my watch at Seneca Towers with all 3 falcons. Seth was on the north window ledge and Billie on the northwest corner. Bith arrived screaming at them half hour into it and knocked mom off and took her spot. Billie flew north and Bith and Seth followed soon after.

I left for downtown and found Beauty on the bottom arm of the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT). She left about 30 minutes later for the Kodak Office launchpad southeast corner. After I left her to look for the others I found a juvie on the lower roof northwest corner of Crossroads. I believe it was Cadence who I found on the Wilder elevator shaft right after the Crossroads bird left.

20 minutes later she flew over to Widows Walk coming to rest on the north side railing and after a few minutes jumped down to the roof inside the railing. I believe she was looking for food at all these places.

I left to check around and ended up on the Broad St. bridge where I spotted Cadence on the upper roof northeast corner. She was being buzzed by the fly catchers up there. Her head was on a swivel as she watched them coming from every direction.

I think she finally had enough of being swooped on by those little buggers and she flew northwest around 7:50am. I had to cut my watch short in preparation for my weekend visitors without having seen Genesee or Dot.ca but as I write this Dana has reported both juvies in the gorge with dad. After running an errand I arrived home to Seneca Towers and found Bith with an adult on the upper railing west side-both had their back to me. Bith flew off and buzzed the adult a few times.

When he was done harassing mom or dad he landed below the railing on the west side then walked in on the roof out of sight. The adult, who I think was Seth, jumped down and joined him. So I saw 5 out of 7 Rochester Peregrine Falcons and Watchers Weekend is upon us. What more could I need to put a smile on my face?! 🙂

Click on the links below to see today’s videos

http://youtu.be/ayR0Jv29LLw

http://youtu.be/7nCb_JPANYw

http://youtu.be/QaWnlypMD3g

http://youtu.be/CMXoYavsd68

http://youtu.be/bV8lJBIwlk0

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