By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The day started out with clear skies but soon became partly cloudy with a temperature of  62 (F) 17 (C)

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As I made my way down St. Paul Street towards downtown I had to stop and take a pic of Tower 280 (formerly Midtown) which was decked out with red, white and blue lights for Independence Day.

I arrived downtown a little after 5am and joined Dan on the Court St. bridge (CSB). The only falcon we could see in the darkness was a juvie on the light under the northeast wing of Times Square (TSB).

Around 5:30am I spotted Beauty coming from the north chasing 2 ducks heading right at us over the river. She broke it off and the ducks kept flying south at a speed I’d never seen ducks fly! lol The Beautyful one must have gotten her kids all riled up as the next thing we saw were the juvies playing talon tag over the jail. They made their way over to TSB with Rachel landing under the northeast wing and Ontario the southeast wing. He started munching on leftovers and she settled on the light.

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I spotted a duck all by its lonesome down in the river napping with its head tucked back under its wing and a Great Blue Heron hunting over by the Broad St. bridge.

When Lil O finished eating he flew over to join his sis under the northeast wing and started eating again on what Dan called “an old sun dried morsel that was probably stuck to the concrete”! He definitely has his own falcon language.

After the duck chase Beauty had flown off and ended up on the Powers cam. Rachel must have decided it was time for mom to get her some breakfast as she flew over there and knocked Beauty off and took her spot atop the cam.

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Rachel left a few minutes later and followed Dot.ca (DC) to the Jail Communications tower (JCT). He landed at the very top and after a failed attempt to land next to dear old dad she landed down lower on the tower.

DC flew off to the southwest and once again his daughter followed him until they both left our field of vision. A bit later Beauty flew in with DC and Rachel over the jail. DC stooped on something out of view and Rachel went with him. Beauty landed on the jail tower-boy, what a bunch of jail birds! Ontario was still hanging out on TSB digesting his snacks.

Right around 6:30am Larry and Zeke joined us. I was giving Zeke some treats out of my car trunk when Larry yelled FOOD TRANSFER by the library. I turned and looked right after and watched as DC and Beauty flew off. Dan and Larry were not sure which one handed the pigeon over to Rachel, but she started flying over the river heading towards the Blue Cross Arena. She was steadily losing altitude and had to drop her breakfast in the river before crashing into the lower part of the Broad St. bridge. Thankfully she was wise enough to do so! She ended up over on the JCT after flying to TSB first. The only pic I was able to get of the whole ordeal was the one below-notice the wing of the pigeon sticking straight out behind her on the right side. It may have still been alive causing Rachel to struggle that much more with it.

The kids started flying together over by the Spectrum Communications Tower (SCT), formerly the Time Warner tower. They eventually landed next to each other on the tower. I checked Widows Walk and found an adult there with a robin bravely staring from across the way.

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Dan was leaving just as Carol joined the watch. The juvies left SCT and Beauty landed on the JCT.

Larry spotted a juvie back on the SCT and that was the only PEFA we could see. I was about ready to end my watch so I left Carol and Larry on the CSB and drove around to see what I could see. I ended up over in the Spectrum parking lot off of Mt Hope Blvd. where I was able to locate both Rachel and Ontario on the tower.

As I was leaving just before 8am both juvies flew northwest over the river out of sight leaving me with a smile on my face! 🙂

Click on the links below to see today’s videos

https://youtu.be/Jj5STIcTbnE

https://youtu.be/0azEWzQ_sU4

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