By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The temperature at the start was 38 (F) 3 (C) with a busy breeze, clouds and sunshine

I started my day without any falcons at Seneca Towers for the first time in a number of days. When I pulled over on the Andrews St. Bridge downtown I could see a falcon on the northeast corner of Crossroads and it was eating. I checked it out from Bragdon St. first where I was able to ID it as Beauty. I then drove over to the end of Graves St. by Aqueduct Park to watch her eat and wait for Dot.ca (DC) to show up

DC showed up on the top I-beam southeast side of OCSR around 7:30am-the sun was washing him out pretty much but there’s no mistaking that white front of his. He stayed there only 5 minutes then he was off to the Mercury money bag.

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Now DC was in position to see the Beautyful one who was still eating over on Crossroads. He waited 8 minutes before he flew over to Crossroads to strategize his first move on her food.

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DC waited about 5 minutes before walking over to Beauty and grabbing a small piece of food and eating it in no time.

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DC waits a couple minutes then goes in for the second attempt but comes up empty this time.

When DC didn’t get any by wrestling with Beauty he flew out and came back but Beauty said I’m outta here and vacated the spot just before he landed on the corner.

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DC found no food and then perched for a bit before leaving when I wasn’t looking around 8:10am.

I went up to the hole parking lot where I spotted Beauty on the base of Mercury eating so I guess she took her leftovers when she left DC on Crossroads. I went up to the Broad St. Bridge to observe her. By the time I got up there she had finished eating and was feaking and cleaning up. She took off at 8:15am flying close past the Radisson Hotel then to the north side of OCSR out of view.

I found Beauty on the northeast side top I-beam of OCSR. I never found DC again.

I left for the Medley Centre-on my way, I saw a falcon on the northwest corner of Seneca Towers as I crossed the Veteran’s Memorial Bridge. Once again no falcons were seen at the mall so I ended my watch at a little after 9am. I just love when DC tries to steal food from Beauty-it makes me smile every time! 🙂

Click on the links below to see today’s videos

https://youtu.be/CeBAK6ITWvk

https://youtu.be/83CY3D4vtu4

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