By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was dark and sprinkling when I left for my watch this morning. As I made my way onto the Broad St. Bridge I got a tweet from Donna(TY) that Beauty was on Mercury. I pulled over by the Blue Cross Arena and spotted her just as she flew off the money bag hand to chase pigeons to the east side. Beauty flew behind Bausch&Lomb out of sight. After looking for her I took a spin over to the Brighton location(BS) and could see Pigott on the northwest corner from the road.

She’s really much prettier than my pics show today as it was not the best conditions for picture taking. Miss Pigott preened a bit had a poop for herself stretched and brought up a pellet while I shared space with her.

As always click on the pics for full version

I had to leave for a while to visit with fellow falcon watcher Jeanne and her 2 dogs Bentley and Mariah as I will be dog sitting while she goes on vacation between Christmas and New Years.  2 and a half hours later I returned to BS where I found sweet sunshine but no falcons. I then went back downtown to find Beauty. I found her on the Frontier Communications Tower(FCT)-she was perched on the northeast cube.

Parked in front of City Hall I just didn’t have a good angle of her as her back was facing out so I found a spot in the parking lot by the Hochstein School of Music on Church St. where I could see her thru the support beams. She stayed there for 15 minutes and then she flew off to the north,doubled back and landed on the northeast corner of the platform. She went to the corner grabbed cached food and hopped across the beam a bit to where she started to eat .

It took her a little over 30 minutes to finish her tasty treat and then she flew up to perch on the east platform railing.

The Beautyful one stayed only long enough to clean up her beak on the railing then flew off to the east and out of my field of vision.

It was at this point I ended my watch. It was an all girl morning with our Rochester Peregrine Falcons for this smiling watcher!  🙂

I have provided links for a photo album and 5 videos from my watch below

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWrQ4A

http://youtu.be/_myjVxHloLk
http://youtu.be/hAiQgWY5dyQ
http://youtu.be/8jKnf7GlaPU
http://youtu.be/yBVnTiQ1zoQ
http://youtu.be/Ofa2dTBRn-g

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