By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was a cool 12 degrees when I left the house this morning and the pigeons were late in coming out from under the Broad St. Bridge(BSB). I do wonder how wildlife can survive with such temperatures but I’m glad that they do. I find that in the dead of winter nothing cheers me more than seeing a falcon or cardinal doing their thing. And speaking of a falcon- Beauty was on the OCSR building top ibeam southeast side when the pigeons were making their daily flight from their Aqueduct roost.

She was definitely watching the activity as was I from my perch on the BSB.  About 20 minutes later she stooped on a few flying behind Thomson Reuters out of view. Beauty then reappeared empty taloned and flew up under the northeast wing of the Times Square building.

Now parked down in the hole I spent around 30 minutes with the Beautyful one before she took off very fast flying over the river to the east and out of my field of vision. So the search was on and I found her 15 minutes later as I parked on the Andrews St. bridge. Beauty was on the top ibeam northeast side of OCSR.

I drove over to Bragdon St. and spent an hour watching Beauty checking her surroundings for a meal to grab as the lake effect snow came down. There were gulls flying over the river between she and I and as one of them flew too close to her personal space she had something to say about it.

I left for the Brighton site arriving there at 9:35am and as I drove down the entrance road I spotted the back of a pefa on the northeast corner of the east extension. Driving around to the east side as the road is one way around the building I came up to see the front of this falcon and discovered it was Pigott.

Miss Pigott had a nice full crop so I knew she wasn’t looking for prey-she was looking for BST to come flying in. She is one gorgeous gal and even in the dark overcast conditions she was looking great. I stayed with her for a half hour  before ending my watch. As I drove thru downtown on my way home I didn’t see Beauty in my travels. So our resident female falcons were the reason for my smiling face today. 🙂

Click on the 4 links below to view videos of  Beauty and Pigott

http://youtu.be/l_2aF0yrcJU
http://youtu.be/NKuOuWDqRJU
http://youtu.be/jAvp9NFTLeU
http://youtu.be/K_p6kUiOLWg

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