By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

When I approach downtown on the bus riding down Main St. from the west I always check the Frontier Communications Tower as I pass. Then my eyes go quickly to Widows Walk, the jail tower and the back of Times Square. I can see under all the wings except the southeast wing. I didn’t see any falcons on buildings this morning but as the bus approached the intersection at Main and State/Exchange Streets I spotted a Peregrine flying over the Crossroads building. It was headed in the general direction of Times Square. So after I got off the bus at Main and Aqueduct St. I walked directly to Exchange St. and looking up at Times Square as I turned the corner I could see tail and wing feathers hanging over the edge under the northeast wing.

I sat down on the garden box timber next to He’s Chinese restaurant and patiently waited for this pefa to show itself so I knew who it was although I was pretty sure it was Beauty as Dot.ca(DC) doesn’t perch this way but Beauty does. About 25 minutes later it turned and gave me a side view.

Yes it was her, the Beautyful one. I took a walk down to the front of the Blue Cross Arena to get a better look at her in the bright sunshine.

As I passed by the Times Square Building(TSB) I took a pic of the placard showing the address of Beautys’ home.

Next it appeared she flew off to the back of the building so as I was walking back down Exchange to see if she had gone under the northwest wing I ran into DebbieH who was on a break from work and taking a walk. After she left I looked up and saw Beauty had moved farther back under the northeast wing close to the building.

15 minutes later Beauty flew above the Wilder building before going around the back of Times Square out of view. I decided to walk down in front of the Blue Cross Arena to check the jail tower since that’s the direction she was flying and sure enough there she was on a north side cross beam.

I walked practically to Cornhill to get a front view of her.

45 minutes passed before I noticed she had left when I wasn’t watching. I just love it when that happens! lol I started trekking back toward Times Square up Exchange St. and I could see the bright white chest of DC on a southwest column in the back of Times Square one level higher than the nest box.

He then flew around the back of the building to the nest box. It was at this time I decided to go up on the South Ave. garage where I could look for Beauty. When I got up there DC was still perched at the nest box where he remained for quite some time.

Nearly an hour passed when DC flew out and met Beauty over the Thomson Reuters building and they both flew to the nest box landing next to the main cam and did some bowing to each other. DC left when they were done and Beauty remained  a couple minutes before she also left.

This would be the last I saw of either one of our Rochester falcons for the remainder of my watch. I stopped on the Broad St. bridge for a while and watched a gull jump off a rock and grab a shiny little minnow out of the Genesee river. He threw it up on the rock and repositioned it in his beak for an easy swallow. At 2:00pm nearly 2 hours after last seeing Beauty and DC I called it a day and headed to the bus stop. I’m glad to see them bowing more and DC bringing food gifts but what would really make me smile(and everyone else) is if she would lay eggs so we don’t have another lost season here in Rochester. 🙂

Click the link below for more pics from today

http://pix.kg/p/702425575213%3A2021972163/scl

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