By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Hooray for the weekend! It’s Saturday, my most favorite day.  A bit warmer today and only a tiny bit of sunshine.  Most of the day was cloudy, but it was so nice seeing the falcons and my fellow Falcon Watchers in the daylight.  lol

Tweets from Today, mine and other Watchers that do not post their own reports:

11:20 am (Larry O) – “Taking Harold to BS to look for Falcons.”

11:40 am (Carol P) – ” At KP with a beautiful adult RTH. No falcons.”

12:50 pm (Carol P) – “DT. I have checked everywhere including the elevator shaft. No sign of Ms Beauty. She has gone to her hiding spot.”

12:50 pm (Dana) – “BS falcon rpt- BST is in tree south of bldg”

3:10 pm (Carol P) – “BS. BST back on the bldg and Pigott just flew in. Lots of ee-chupping. Dana Kathy O Brian and Carol P here.”

3:11 pm (Carol P) – “BS.  P flew to a window on south side and is eating leftovers.”

3:20 pm (Carol P) – “BS. P carried her meal to the SE corner and is eating there.”

3:50 pm (Carol P) – “BS. Everyone leaving BS to look for Ms Beauty. P is on the SE corner preening and BST is on the west end south facing windows preening. lol”

4:00 pm (Carol P) – “DT. Ms Beauty is on Mercurys moneybag preening.”

5:20 pm (Carol P) – “DT. B left Mercury and flew up into the OCSR elevator shaft. Night Beauty!”

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My first stop this morning was KP to see if I could find a falcon (11:30 am).  Well I didn’t find any Peregrines, but I did find two gorgeous Red-tailed Hawks hunting the field in front of where we park.  I’ve started calling the large adult female, Big Momma.  She has a USFW silver band on her right leg.  The other hawk is a bit smaller and I think it was the juvie I’ve seen hanging out with the adult.  Possibly her young from last year?  I spent some time watching Big Momma and her companion for awhile before heading downtown to find Beauty.

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I checked all over downtown and could not find Beauty anywhere.  I even checked the OCSR elevator shaft.  She was not there.  While I was downtown, I received a tweet from fellow Falcon Watcher Dana.  She was at the BS location and she reported that BST was in a tree on the south side of the building.  This is the same tree we saw Pigott a while back.  Definitely a falcon tree.  lol  That was at 12:50 pm.  Next stop the BS location.

I joined Dana on the south side of the building a little after 1:00 pm.  BST was in the same tree that Pigott had been in a few weeks ago when the Crows surrounded her.  Seems they like this tree.  He remained there for almost two hours and only one Crow landed near him and CAWED.  BST gave him a look and the Crow left.  🙂  Kathy O and Brian H joined us and we all enjoyed our time with the very handsome BST.  Most of the time he was preening, but he was a very interested in everything happening around him.  When flocks of small birds flew over his head would turn totally upside down.  How do they do that!  Here are some pics of BST in the Pefa tree.

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At 3:00 pm, BST took off and flew towards the BS bldg, landing on a window at the west end, facing south (near the cubby).  Of course we all followed.  Just as we arrived, ee-chupping filled the air and Pigott arrived landing on the SW extension.  She didn’t stay long. She flew around the corner of the extension and landed on a window where she had cached prey.  She settled in to enjoy her meal.  After about 15 minutes, she flew with the remainder of her meal to the SE corner, where she finished it.

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At 3:50 pm, we all decided it was time to head downtown to look for Ms. Beauty.  I stayed a bit longer at BS to send the tweet and check on them one more time.  I left P&BST in their spots and went downtown.  I missed the other Watchers, but I did find Beauty on Mercury’s moneybag hand.

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I remained parked on the Broad St Bridge until it was dark and Beauty finally took off from the Mercury statue and flew directly up into the OCSR elevator shaft.  Goodnight Beauty!

It was a wonderful day of Falcon Watching.  I’ll leave you with a few pics from my travels today.

REMEMBER TO CLICK ON ANY PICS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN A LARGER VERSION.  THANKS!

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