By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was quite breezy and chilly at the start with mostly sunny skies and a temperature of 57 (F) 14 (C)

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I started my watch at 5:05am with Dan on the Court St. Bridge (CSB). Rachel was by the main cam and Beauty was on the Mercury money bag (MMB). Soon after, Ei joined us and the kids did some flying around Times Square (TSB). One of them landed on Powers and one on Widows Walk (WW).

Beauty, Rachel and Ontario did some flying in the TSB area with both juvies landing under the northeast wing. Rachel was by the right side of the head of Mercury then she moved to the top of the head. Beauty ended up on the Powers cam.

The Beautyful one then flew up to check out Lil O under the wing. Carol (Lukka) joined us around this time. Beauty left TSB flew over to Powers then back to cam 1 on TSB. Both juvies ended up on the deck with Ontario leaving to go over to Widows Walk.

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Beauty chased after a pigeon and missed it near the Radisson Hotel then she showed up on the jail tower as the kids did some flying. Kathy joined us on the bridge and Carol arrived downtown around 7am. We had two falcons on the Powers building, a juvie under the southeast wing of TSB. After that we had an adult on the top arm of the jail tower and a juvie on the very lowest arm. It was a busy time!

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There was some more flying as the two flew off the jail tower with Rachel and Ontario ending up on WW. They took off again then one returned to WW. Beauty showed up on OCSR top I-beam, west corner. Dan left around 7:45am so we went over to the hole and met Carol there.

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After that the kids followed each other to the northeast wing ledge, Beauty was on OCSR and Dot.ca (DC) came in and landed on a wing ring. We had all 4 in sight momentarily. Rachel then flew out to the south side ledge of TSB across from the nest box.

Beauty paid a visit to Lil O and went to the back of the ledge before flying off. More watchers started filtering in from this point on. Joyce, Jeanne, Linda King, Carrie, Shaky, Pat, Brian, Carla, Lisa, Lynda and Tim and a new watcher Suzy joined Carol, Kathy, Ei, Carol Lukka and myself in the hole.

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Activity slowed down with a little more flying before all the falcons hunkered down for some rest.

We all had some good conversation while waiting for some action. We got some around 1pm when a food transfer took place over Exchange Blvd. right in front of us and that was the end of it. I ended my watch after 2pm and a while later everyone else headed out. Minus the rain yesterday we had nice weather for Watchers Weekend 2017 and everyone had more than a few laughs. It was a smiling good time! 🙂

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