By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

This morning the sun shone bright with some clouds and a temperature of 36 (F) 2 (C)

As I stepped out of Seneca Towers (ST) this morning for my watch 2 White-tailed Deer greeted me on the outside of the fence that goes around the parking lot. They were eating crab apples that had fallen to the ground as we have several of them lining the residents parking lot. Of course, when they saw me it spooked them and they ran down to the edge of the gorge and disappeared.

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I didn’t find any falcons at ST or Hawkeye (HE) and so continued on to downtown. As I pulled over on the Andrews St. bridge I spotted Beauty on the base of Mercury eating so off I went to the Broad St. Bridge for the best view.

As I was taping a video of her I noticed something white over on the top I-beam of OCSR. It was Dot.ca (DC) and he was feaking  with food in his crop, so I surmised that he had just finished eating.

DC settled in after he was done cleaning himself up and the Beautyful one continued to fill her crop with today’s breakfast item.

At 7:41am Beauty looked back toward OCSR as DC was flying over to land on the heel of Mercury right above her.

He stayed there for about a minute and a half then stooped down into the river gorge in a flash. DC then came back up and came to rest on the money bag (MMB) and proceeded to watch over his kingdom and his mate.

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I was surprised he didn’t join Beauty on the base for a little more food as his crop had more room but I guess he was content to watch over her.

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Meanwhile, Beauty continued to finish up the last of her meal up on the green part of the base and then some cleaning up as she checked her pedicure and pooped.

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When she was done, Beauty flew off to the northwest at 7:58am. I thought for sure DC would follow as he normally does but he decided to wait a bit before leaving.

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At 8:04am DC flew off in the same direction as Beauty and it was time for me to move along as well.

That was the last PEFA sighting of my watch as there was nobody at the Medley Centre or Seneca Towers. Someone had left a pile of bread in the north parking lot of the mall and the pigeons and gulls were feasting on that. I ended my watch at 9am smiling as I always do when there are falcons on the Mercury statue-my favorite spot to see them! 🙂

Click on the links below to view today’s videos

https://youtu.be/yJCsKnHjTlY

https://youtu.be/Igg1lzCO0qc

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