By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Tweets (Mine and those by Watchers that do not post Falcon Watch reports)

7:21 am – Donna on RFalconcamNow – “And she’s off”  (I’ll assume that Donna saw Beauty on Mercury and this was when she took off.) – As seen on Camera #1

3:51 pm – Ei on RFalconcamNow – “Beauty on Mercury.” – As seen on Camera #1

3:54 pm – Ei on RFalconcamNow – “and off northbound.” – As seen on Camera #1

4:10 pm – Carol P. – “DT. Thanks for the heads up Ei! Headed straight for OCSR and found Beauty inside the elevator shaft on the north ledge. To BS next.”

4:40 pm – Carol P. – “So far nothing seen at BS. Just lots of crows passing through. Will wait a bit to see if they show up.”

5:00 pm – Carol P. – “At BS. One falcon just flew in and landed on the 3rd window down NE end.”

5:10 pm – Carol P. – “BS. Lots of ee chupping and number 2 is home. P & BST are home for the nite. All 3 seen today!”

5:20 pm – Joyce – “More echupping?  Staying together more?  Hmmmm… BST may have other plans than just being a winter resident. Going to get interesting.”

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I arrived downtown just in time to receive Ei’s tweet that Beauty was on the Mercury statue and that she had taken off heading north.  Thanks Ei!  That saved me a little bit of my precious daylight.  So, I headed directly over to the OCSR (Old Changing Scenes Restaurant) (for you M!) to take a look up into the elevator shaft and there she was!  Beauty was at, what I believe to be her night time roosting spot.  This time she was on the north side ledge.  bc questioned whether she might be using whichever ledge gave her the most protection from the weather.  I believe this is probably correct.  This really is a well protected spot.  Mariah & Kaver used it also and Archer & Unity too.

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Since Beauty was settled up in the elevator shaft, I headed over to the BS location.  I circled the building a few times and could not find any falcons there.  The Crows were gathering in the trees in the back and streaming though towards downtown.  I was close to losing daylight, so I parked where I could watch the area we’ve seen them go after dark on the NE end of the building.

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At 5:00 pm, I noticed a shadow up on the 3rd window down.  I checked with my binoculars and saw one of the falcons had flown in.  I believe that this was BST (the BS Tiercel), but couldn’t be sure.  I kept watching for Pigott.

At 5:10 pm, the air filled with the delightful sounds of ee-chupping. Two falcons were definitely up there, but I could still only see one in the darkness.  I decided to move to for a different angle and saw that Pigott was now up on the 2nd window down (just above BST), but she was tucked into the left side of the window where I couldn’t see her from where I had been originally parked.  Sorry, no pictures of Pigott & BST.  My camera is just about useless in low light.  Oh, and I agree with Joyce’s last tweet.  I believe these two are getting quite comfortable with each other.  For now we have to assume that Dot.ca has migrated.  We’ll be watching to see what happens.

So, another day with all three Rochester Falcons seen.  Another good day!  It’s the weekend and I’m sure a lot of the Rochester Falcon Watchers will be out and about looking for our favorite falcons!

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