By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was 67 (F) and 20 (C) to start with sun and clouds

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I made it downtown by 5am today after checking the cams before leaving home. Charlotte and Ontario were still on Times Square (TSB) in the nest box area when I left. Upon arriving I found Rachel on the Wilder building near the stovepipe, Ontario on the main cam and Charlotte on the wall bump. Ontario flew over to Wilder to check on his sister, Rachel and I couldn’t see Charlotte until Donna reported that she was on the nest box roof where I couldn’t see her.

Beauty came flying through to land on cam 1 as Ontario went back over to TSB and joined Charlotte. They were screaming at mom for food!

Ontario lost patience and flew over Rachel, who had made her way to the southwest corner of Wilder, and landed on the chimney. He quickly walked to the north side out of view. Charlotte remained on TSB running, flapping and squawking up a storm.

Rachel

Suddenly Dot.ca (DC) came streaking through with Ontario right on his tail. The Beautyful one took off with them and I lost sight of them until DC flew up to the southeast wing ring. He must have brought food because I found Beauty on the northwest corner railing of Widows Walk and Ontario was eating on the southeast corner below the railing.

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I lost track of Charlotte with all the action and about 10 minutes later spotted her up on a north side column at the back of TSB and she was also eating. I had all 5 in sight for a short time.

Beauty flew over  by Char and tried to get the food from her. After failing she flew out and back right over her then doubled back to successfully get it away from her daughter and have a few bites for herself.

Carol arrived in the hole around 6:20am and so I decided to go across the street to the parking lot next to TSB where I could see Rachel on the southwest corner of Wilder. Beauty dropped food off to Rachel and after a bit started feeding her beak to beak.

Carol saw Charlotte fly to the Wilder chimney after that she flew to the north side of TSB under the bar we call the jungle gym.After a few minutes her BYF (big yellow feet) slipped and she had to spread her wings and fly away. She then joined Rachel on the southwest corner of Wilder.  I saw some neat clouds in the eastern sky and took a pic to share (taken from Irving Place, the alley that runs behind TSB).

Around 7:40am Beauty buzzed the girls and landed on the fire escape ladder before flying north. Carol reported DC on the top I-beam west corner of OCSR and then I joined her in the hole. Ontario flew around a bit and went to the northeast wing ledge and soon after laid down for a nap. Larry stopped by on his way to work and got a big kick out of Ontario’s tail feathers hanging over the edge.

Charlotte made her way off the Wilder chimney without us noticing after we lost track of her up there. Donna and Ei reminded us that she had gone up there. Out of sight out of mind right!? Anyway, she was walking around near the stove pipe while Beauty was on the column above the nest box and DC over on OCSR.

Rachel made an appearance near the stove pipe then everyone hunkered down for a while. Half hour later Beauty and DC started flying up past Ontario and circling above Wilder trying to get the kids to fly but they were having none of it. Beauty broke it off and went to OCSR south corner top I-beam but DC kept buzzing past Ontario kakking and eventually gave up. The kids were sleeping off breakfast and wanted no part of flying.

Around 9:45am Ontario pooped and flew off toward the river like a rocket and actually went into a partial stoop before coming back into view and landed on the Wilder chimney with Char. Before I could get a pic he went over to the north side where she was out of our field of vision. Once again mom and dad started circling above Wilder trying to get the kids going but failed to do so. Beauty ended up on the Mercury money bag and DC to the northwest wing ring on the tippy top of TSB.

A big bug with two sets of wings on each side flew in and landed on the Thomson Reuters building which neither Carol nor I knew what it was-we’re more into raptors than insects. lol I found an action figure on Aqueduct St. that had lost a leg when I was packing up to leave for a physical therapy appointment.

I ended my fledge watch after a peaceful morning with our Rochester Peregrine Falcon family giving me much to smile about! 🙂

Click on the links below to watch today’s videos

https://youtu.be/4XlFPOlbw7s

https://youtu.be/dE0ZmR0Wva4

https://youtu.be/cn4FFyN3baM

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