By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Another banner morning weather wise with bright blue skies, sunshine and a temperature of 60 (F) 16 (C)

Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon after Carol reported seeing a juvie chasing an adult over Maplewood Park I stepped out on the west side balcony to have a look. From there I saw Seth on the south side ledge of the bridge with a small package. He was panting in the hot sun and it seemed he was looking to give the food away as he stood over it looking around.

After a few minutes Seth flew to the east end of the bridge and cached his chunk of meat then flew south just above the tree tops over Seth Green Park where I lost him.

This morning (Monday) I stepped out into the elevator hallway of my 16th floor at Seneca Towers and saw a falcon fly past when I looked toward the west side balcony. It was flying to the north but when I got out there it was nowhere to be found. I didn’t see any falcons on the building when I got out in my car to check the perimeter either.

Arriving downtown around 6:15am it wasn’t until I crossed the river to the east side that I saw a falcon. While stopped at Main and Cortland St. I spotted a falcon just as it took off from the top rung of the RGS antenna heading northwest-it went into a stoop over the Sibley’s building, quickly leaving my field of vision. Around 6:45am I pulled over on State St. just in time to see Dot.ca (DC) stoop off the northeast corner of the Kodak Office (KO) launchpad. He was headed toward the river gorge and half a minute later he returned with no prey.

DC turned his back to me as I was on State St. near Platt St. so I drove down to State and Brown St. for a better angle on Mr. Clean.

After scratching and preening a little DC flew northeast at 6:54am-that would be the last I would see of him or any other falcon for the next 2 hours.

At 9am, while pulled over on the Andrews St. bridge I spotted his whiteness on the top I beam north corner of OCSR.

DC stretched his wings and legs and settled down so I decided to head home to see if I could catch a falcon there.

Unfortunately, I struck out at home and ended my watch at about 9:30am. DC was the only falcon that wanted to share space with me on this day and that’s alright because seeing a falcon at all is reason to smile! 🙂

Click on the links below to see today’s videos

http://youtu.be/CaYy9uHox-w

http://youtu.be/FSnSIQxC81s

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