By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

I took a look at the Frontier Communications Tower(FCT) as I passed it on the bus this morning and I didn’t see any bumps. However when I got on the Broad St. Bridge(BSB) Larry said there was a pefa on the E side railing. I looked at Dan and said gee I wish those bus windows got cleaned more often! lol  Orion is the star of this show  and he certainly has provided us with some entertainment and no mishaps. (knock on wood) Today was no exception as the first action came from our little star as he came flying in after some pigeons. And then a bit later he was stooping on pigeons without hitting them, but showed pretty good speed.  He landed on his spot over at the Hyatt northwest lower corner and stooped down the face of it after a pigeon. Good stuff for a fledged falcon of only 2 weeks!

Just before Larry and Dan left Beauty came flying over the river near Aqueduct Park with a package and Orion was after her in a flash. They flew behind the Radisson Hotel out of view and then Dan saw Orion land on a window ledge on the pink hotel. Beauty appeared with nothing in her talons and flew over to Mercury. She landed on the outstretched money bag hand of Mercury and brought tears to my eyes. You see she has only been on this, her favorite perching spot( before rehab) one other time since returning to her territory.

I went down to the hole to see the Radisson better and locate exactly where Orion had gone. He was on a window ledge facing the river 3 row down from roof and 5 windows across from the north end of the hotel. Orion was on the north end of the ledge and there was prey at the south end when I first found him. Then Beauty joined him plopping herself right on top of the prey.

Now we didn’t know if there was a food exchange behind the hotel of if Beauty had dropped it off on this ledge but our sweet little Orion wanted it and he turned into a little devil as you’ll see on my videos from the event. Beauty would win this battle and fly to the base of Mercury with it and Orion would follow her to continue the action. He had a song for her before he chased her off  the base .

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They flew behind Thomson Reuters and the next time I saw them they were flying west behind the Crossroads building toward FCT. Off I went to my bench near City Hall to find me a falcon or 2 on FCT. Both Beauty and Orion were under the platform and they would remain there for most of the rest of my watch hiding on me at times. Regretfully Dot.Ca was not present downtown during any of my 6 hour watch.

Orion left a couple times and did some great sky dancing over the gorge and the east side of the river. Joyce joined me on the Sister Cities garage  and DebbieH with her co-worker Paula came up on their lunch break. My head was banging so I decided to go home just before 1:00 but as usual our Rochester Peregrine Falcons made me smile on this watch! 🙂

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http://youtu.be/1yAUPtfbD5Q

http://youtu.be/EIU29IDWObQ

http://youtu.be/C8zFSDyFTt8

http://youtu.be/fS04PAf0TME

http://youtu.be/EUdL53H1ehc

http://youtu.be/h8NB8x6uh80

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