By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was a warm 66 (F) 19 (C) already when I walked out the door today and when the sun came up it got steadily warmer

Before getting on the elevator to go down to my car I stepped out on the west side balcony of my 16th floor at Seneca Towers (ST) to check for falcons. I wasn’t disappointed as I saw both juvies on a bridge ledge. While I was taking a pic of one the other flew past in front of it and landed further down on the same ledge as you will see on my snippet video today if you check it out. That would be my only falcon sighting at ST this morning-mom and dad have been scarce lately. The  following are pics of Sellie (Se for Seth and llie for Billie), the new juvie from last night when he was on the west side railing where Joyce, Jeanne and I saw him.

I headed downtown arriving on the Andrews St. bridge a little after 6am and spotted a falcon with its back to me on the west corner top I beam of OCSR.  I left for the hole to get a front view of it but it was gone when I got there. When I looked up at Times Square I spotted an adult who I think was Beauty under the northeast wing for a moment and then a juvie flew in out of nowhere and knocked her off, landing on the ledge. I watched Beauty fly east over the Blue Cross Arena and when I looked back to the wing the juvie was gone. Coming from behind me appeared the juvies I believe-they flew over Thomson Reuters crossing the river to the east out of view.

I crossed the river as well and found Beauty on the southeast corner of HSBC where she was being swooped on by a smaller bird, a Kestrel I believe. She put up with that for less than a minute and took off heading west. I followed behind and caught up with her on the heel of Mercury. I pulled over on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) to share space with her.

Around 7:20am Beauty flew after some pigeons over the river behind the Court St. bridge and gave up when they scattered and returned to land on the Mercury money bag (MMB).  I then noticed Genesee on the northeast corner of the Mercury loser railing and then Cadence made an appearance next to him. They had a lot to say to each other and Beauty!

Cadence eventually moved closer to her brother and they had a little squabble and both flew off. I expected one of them to knock Beauty off the money bag but they ended up on the base of Mercury. Genesee clearly had food in his crop so he shouldn’t have been hungry as they both went up on the green part of the base and started picking at leftovers.

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They started picking on each other again and then Genesee flew off coming to rest on the Mercury staff. He was sca-reaming at mom as she looked down at him from the money bag. It was quite comical, but then juvies in general are very funny and entertaining.

Suddenly Genesee flew off, then Beauty and followed by Cadence heading west and out of sight. I drove down to the hole and found one of the juvies on the northeast corner of the Widows Walk railing with it’s back to me-it stretched it’s legs out good as it flew off, enabling me to see that it was Genesee. 10 minutes later I found the Beautyful one on the top west corner of OCSR. As I was parked on State St. across from the Rochester  Plaza Hotel watching Beauty, I couldn’t help but notice the reflection of the Powers building on the Crossroads building windows. It looks good to us but imagine being a newly fledged falcon and seeing that, thinking I’ll just go land on that and smack, they run into a window.  It’s a big problem for these babies that don’t know any different.

The next time I saw a falcon was after 9am when I caught a glimpse of a juvie on the west side of Crossroads while driving down Exchange Blvd. When I finally found somewhere to pull over it was gone and that’s the last falcon I saw on watch today. I went home and saw no falcons at Seneca Towers so I ended my watch at 9:30am. I did see all 4 Rochester juvies on watch this morning (unless there’s more out there waiting to show themselves) which makes me smile! 🙂

Click on the links below to see today’s videos-including a quick one of Sellie flying off Seneca Towers last night

http://youtu.be/UoLb2JW-wao

http://youtu.be/Zdh3mm3J50s

http://youtu.be/WOOKPwmPyX8

http://youtu.be/2tdVaRDTIyI

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