By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was lightly raining when I left the house to walk to my bus stop this morning and when I arrived downtown it had stopped. The entire fledge watch was overcast and dark with light rain on and off. After finding Beauty on the west corner top ibeam of OCSR I thought I saw a bump on the disc part on top where the restaurant was at one time. I would find out I was seeing things a few minutes later when I got a tweet from Larry that Orion was over on the Frontier Communications Tower(FCT). I checked the Broad St. bridge(BSB) for Dan and after not seeing him I walked over to City Hall on Fitzhugh St. where I caught up with Larry on Church St. Orion was on the east side railing of the platform and he said that Dot.Ca had just stooped to the north.

Larry left for work so I went to a bench on the southeast corner of the Church and Fitzhugh intersection to keep an eye on Orion. About 30 minutes later I got a call from DebbieH letting me know Beauty was still on OCSR and she thought she had seen Orion flying near OCSR and over Widows Walk. I waited a few minutes to see if he showed up on FCT and then I walked over to Times Square and had a look for myself. Beauty was indeed still on OCSR but 5 minutes after I arrived she left flying in the direction of- you guessed it FCT! And I spotted a falcon small in size fly over Keybank also flying toward FCT. So I hoofed it back over to City Hall checking for Orion along the way. When I got back over there Orion was on the north railing and Beauty was on the 2nd arm south side.

As I tried keeping track of our Rochester Peregrine Falcons I kept getting asked about them by many City Hall workers. One guy said he missed finding pigeon parts on the sidewalks,one lady said she could hear one of them a lot lately,another guy said he was very excited to see a falcon fly really fast after a pigeon and couldn’t get over how hard the impact was when it hit the pigeon. Lots of people remembered us watchers  and the falcons from 2010 when Beauty,Archer and Callidora hung out on FCT all the time. It was nice to speak to everyone but it made it that much harder to keep track of  the falcons.

Anyway, I had all 3 on FCT at once as Beauty had food on the platform and Orion wanted it while DC watched them from above on the 2nd arm. Beauty flew to the brick building over by the music school where I haven’t seen her since Callidora and Jemison were around.

Debbie came by on her lunch break and with her and Donnas’ help we were able to determine that DC was on the west side of the platform and Orion popped up on the east side. Team work is key when locating falcons and we all work together pretty well I’d say. Orion got up on the west side railing at the north end before taking off toward the TSB again. So once more I walked to TSB and after not finding any pefas returned to FCT to find DC on the east side railing and Orion was singing so I knew he was up there somewhere.

Thunderstorms were on the way and my watch was til 2:00 tho I stayed a bit longer, I left for the bus so I could get home before the rains came. Brian was on his way to the South Ave. garage and Marcia was scheduled for a watch at 2 so I knew our little fledgling would be watched over. I had fun watching the antics of Orion on the platform and railings of FCT and as always he kept me smiling on a dismal day! 🙂

Links for pics and videos are below just click on and away you go

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWrFCg

http://youtu.be/wxIwKZse_RA

http://youtu.be/V1mFkeMYmzw

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