By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was a chilly start with clouds and sun and a temperature of 56 (F) 13 (C) Rain clouds to the south produced a rainbow

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As I arrived on the Court St. bridge at 5:10am Dan and I watched 3 falcons flying over behind Times Square (TSB). Dot.ca (DC) was on OCSR top I-beam south corner and Beauty on the Powers railing northeast corner. Rachel was on the lower arm of the jail tower. Ontario landed on the southwest column of TSB then off to the races he went, first knocking mom off then over to the jail tower trying to knock off sis.

Next, we had the 2 on Widows Walk (WW) and two at the Powers building. Their was an interesting rain cloud in the southern sky that caught our eye and it developed a rainbow. Very cool skies in Rochester the last few days.

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The Beautyful one and DC were at Powers briefly then Beauty was on the column above the nest box and Rachel was on Powers with dad.

Ontario suddenly appeared and flew around before landing on the south roof of Thomson Reuters. He quickly left there and crossed the river to the Rundell Library, first landing on a small ledge below the roof then down to the ledge below the lettering on the library. He was very aware of the chimney swifts flitting around over the river and stuff down in the river. I believe he is close to hunting on his own-we have witnessed him stooping several times in the last couple days.

After Ontario flew off the library he met up with Rachel and they did quite a bit of flying and talon tagging over behind the jail and Blue Cross Arena. Beauty  Lil O ended up on the Wilder chimney and a bit later Rachel knocked mom off the column and took her place sending Beauty up to the northeast wing ledge. DC was over on OCSR . Larry and Zeke joined us around that time.

DC flew down to the west corner from the south corner of OCSR top I-beam. Ontario knocked mom off TSB and flew over to Powers with her. Rachel took off and Lil O flew off to join her. She landed on Crossroads then Lil brother knocked her off.

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DC joined his young ones and flew above OCSR across the river around behind the Hyatt Hotel and out of view. Then the 3 of them were flying around and above Xerox and Legacy (B&L) tower. DC landed on the north side of Xerox while the kids played around the area. At one point a flock of pigeons were flying near Xerox and one of the falcons broke off and went after them disappearing behind the building. What fun it is to watch PEFA’s sky dance!

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It was about 7:15am when Dan and Larry packed up and left. I decided to go check out Seneca Towers as Carol pulled up. I had no luck finding one single falcon on either side of the Veterans Memorial Bridge or on Seneca Towers but I found a moth/butterfly clinging to the wall next to the sidewalk on Bridgeview Dr. that goes below the bridge on the west side of the river. I took a pic of ST and Hawkeye from there as well and when I was walking back to my car at Maplewood Park I spotted a juvenile Robin.

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I ended my watch just before 8:30am with a smile on my face! 🙂

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