By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The air was very humid and heavy thus making for some light fog this morning as I arrived on the Broad St. bridge(BSB). My first run thru bagged no falcons in the area so I drove over to the east side.  As I approached HSBC from Court St. I spotted a falcon on the southwest corner. It left while I was in traffic so I returned to the BSB. I could see a falcon now on the Frontier Communications Tower top arm north side but again it left while I was enroute. So then I went to the Andrews St. bridge and could see a pefa on the base of Mercury. Once again I was off to get a closer look and thankful I wasn’t having to chase this falcon(I think it was B the whole time) on foot! Parked on the BSB now I was sure that it was the Beautyful one and she was in hunt mode looking everywhere.

2 pigeons came out from under the bridge and Beauty stooped on them missed and then chased them over the river and Aqueduct Park before they all vanished behind the Thomson Reuters building. She returned to the base of Mercury to look around some more for a meal. Beauty took off fast to the south chasing pigeons over Court St. and returned about 2 minutes later landing back on the base.  She wasn’t alone tho for Dot.Ca(DC) came in right on her heels and landed up top on the money bag hand of Mercury.

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DC didn’t stay there for long as he flew down to the heel with Beauty on the base. It’s really nice to see them hanging out so close to each other lately. They both were in hunt mode looking to and fro just waiting for prey to show itself. Suddenly DC took off to the south and Beauty followed right behind him, I lost them over Cornhill when they scared up the pigeons that roost over there.

Click the pic to see DC taking off

Almost immediately after our Peregrine pair left a flock of pigeons came flying out from under the BSB obviously they were in hiding just waiting for their chance to fly. Beauty came back a minute later and now she was on the heel of Mercury.

She and I shared some quality time together for about 45 minutes before she stooped into the river gorge toward Court St. only to return with no prey again.

She did however land on the very top of Mercury on her rightful spot the money bag hand which was a victory in my eyes!  I cheered to myself as I started clicking away with my camera!!!

10 minutes later Beauty was off stooping again over Cornhill and eventually landing on the jail tower. Right after she left a few Starlings took over the Mercury statue. lol

I drove over to Troup St. which is right across from interstate 490 and the jail tower but when I got there she was already gone. I then decided to go over to BS before ending my watch with no luck finding a pefa, but there were lots of Starlings,Grackles and a Blue Jay making a lot of noise. Just seeing our Rochester Peregrine Falcons is enough to make me smile but when Beauty landed on that money bag…well let’s just say the drought is over and MAK was SMILING! 🙂

Check out the links below for more pics and videos of our resident Peregrine pair

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWrKUA

http://youtu.be/jwEPIu04eD8
http://youtu.be/K-75PmKGYhs
http://youtu.be/VFIoMhipD2M
http://youtu.be/qum4ySTwrGY
http://youtu.be/AMGt7ptJA0g
http://youtu.be/N3cqJTLGkdY

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