By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was overcast with some rain and a temperature of 57 (F) 14 (C)

I arrived downtown a little after 5am meeting Dan on the Court St. bridge (CSB). We had Beauty on cam 1 and the kids under the northeast wing.

Rachel and Ontario took off to the sky over the jail and had a blast talon tagging and chasing each other all over the downtown area. We could see a rainbow in the south where dark storm clouds were present. It stretched from behind Cornhill to Widows Walk and then the rain came. The juvies took a break on Widows Walk while Dan and I shivered under our umbrellas. I spotted a Great Blue Heron hunting in the river on the north side of the Broad St. bridge.

Dan had enough and left after 6am and I was happy to get in my car to get warmed up. I could see a juvie under the northeast wing when I left to go to the hole. When I got there a juvie was on the ledge above the well screaming at Beauty on cam 1. It flew down to land on cam 4 and the Beautyful one flew east out of view.

When I couldn’t find any PEFA’s I headed to the east side looking in all of Beauty’s favorite perching spots. I didn’t find her or any other falcons until I spotted a juvie on the light under the northeast wing of Times Square. Beauty was on the column above the nest box when I got back to the hole.

About ten minutes later Beauty flew to the Mercury money bag and both juvies flew off to the back of Times Square. They flew south then Rachel landed on the jail tower and I lost sight of Ontario. I went over to Troup St. to get a closer look at her.

Rachel flew off a couple minutes later and met up with Lil O flying over the river for a few minutes then once again I lost sight of Ontario as Rachel landed on the OCSR roof.

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At the time, Beauty was on Times Square under the northeast wing and out of nowhere Ontario flew in and knocked Rachel off OCSR. Both juvies flew over and bumped mom off her spot and kept going. Beauty went over to the Powers building northeast corner of the railing.

I went to the CSB and watched the kids sky dancing over Cornhill where they stirred up all the pigeons and sent them scattering in all directions. After playing for a few more minutes Ontario flew over to the Spectrum tower. I lost Rachel so I drove over to check out Lil O first parking on the east side of the tower. He was quite low on the tower with a robin scolding him for being there.

He moved to another beam so I drove over to the west side for a better view. A crow had a few things to say to him over there which he ignored. He was watching something down in the trees below and he eventually took off and went down towards the trees in a half stoop out of view and never came back.

I never saw Dot.ca today but watcher Pat reported seeing him later on OCSR . I ended my watch at 8:45am. No PEFA’s were seen at Seneca Towers when I got home late morning. Our downtown Rochester Peregrine Falcon juvies are flying very well and putting a smile on my face daily! 🙂

Click on the links below to see today’s videos

https://youtu.be/Ca_YnxHAkDs

https://youtu.be/GMmmwAe1MNU

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