By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Date : 5/16/12 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Weather: Partly Sunny/Partly Cloudy/little bit of rain when a cold front pushed through and temps in the 70’s/60’s
Watcher: Joyce, Kathy O, MAK & Carol P
Places: Downtown Rochester (Times Square Nestsite) (TS) & Brighton Site (BS) Location
Peregrines Seen: Beauty (at TSB) & Dot.ca (at TSB & BS) & Pigott (at BS)
Beauty = B
Dot.ca = DC
Pigott = P (the female falcon formerly known as SA or Sub Adult at BS Location)
Times Square Bldg = TSB
Brighton Site = BS
Broad St Bridge = BSB
Baush & Lomb Bldg = B&L Bldg
Old Changing Scenes Restaurant = OCSR

Well, this was a day of surprises for the Rochester Watchers that were out checking on the falcons this afternoon. I joined Joyce at the BS location at about 4:00 pm. She had seen both Dot.ca and Pigott there just before I arrived. I found her on the south side of the building watching Dot.ca who was preening up on top of the vent near the top. It was very quiet, so we chatted for awhile. At approximately 5:15 pm, Dot.ca took off and flew to the north side of the building where the scrape was located.

By the time I drove around to the front of the building, I could hear very loud ee-chupping from the scrape. Pigott had arrived and both she and Dot.ca were having a Chup-fest! It lasted a few minutes before Dot.ca left the scrape and Pigott soon followed. I lost track of Dot.ca, but watched as Pigott flew to the east side of the building. Joyce had joined me in time to witness all of this. I tweeted out what happened while Joyce drove around to see if she could find Pigott. She did, just in time to see her stoop down over a field on the east side. We did not see her return.

I decided to head downtown to check on Beauty and possibly Dot.ca if he went in that direction. I told Joyce I was heading out. On my drive over, my phone started going off with tweets and phone calls and, I couldn’t answer any of them, because I was driving! It didn’t take long for me to get downtown. Kathy O was already on the Broad St Bridge. After parking behind her, she quickly came back and excitedly told me that Beauty had just laid an egg. What! Wow! That was incredible! I took a look at my tweets and saw they were from so many falcon fans, some that I had not seen in a few years. Thanks Kristen! Everyone was so excited! Kathy pointed out that Dot.ca was sitting on the base of the SE Wing above the nest box. Since Beauty hadn’t moved off of the egg, he probably didn’t know she had laid one. Or maybe he did. Who knows. 🙂

We were soon joined by Joyce and MAK, who Joyce had picked up on her way downtown. WooHoo! We were all very excited.

Of course it’s way too early to know if this egg will hatch or whether Beauty will lay any others. I know I’ll be watching the cameras and going downtown to see what happens. and you know I’ll be keeping my eyes to the sky, watching “our” Rochester Falcons.

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