By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

My Tweets from Tonight:

4:10 pm – “DT. Found Ms Beauty on the north side of the FCT platform.”

4:20 pm – “DT. B took of heading towards TSB. Now on mercury.”

4:30 pm – “DT. B went after the pigeons over the river then headed east behind Xerox.”

5:00 pm – “BS. BST was on the NW corner then flew to a window on the north side of the west ext.”

5:30 pm – “BS. Pigott is home. She is 6 windows down at the nighttime roost east ext north side.BST still where he was. All 3 seen.” – Forgot to mention that Larry O stopped by for a few moments before he headed home.

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As usual, my falcon watch started downtown, a little before 4:00 pm.  My first stop was the Andrews St Bridge.  From there, I spotted Beauty on the Frontier Communication Tower (FCT).  She was on the north side of the platform.  I drove over to the City Hall parking lot and watched Beauty from there.

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I was happy to find her, since I hadn’t seen Beauty for the last two evenings.  At 4:20 pm, Beauty took off, heading south towards the Times Square Bldg.  That’s where I headed and parked on the Broad St. Bridge.  I could not find Beauty, but I knew she wasn’t on the Mercury statue, but many of her friends were!

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All of a sudden, the Blue Cross Arena pigeons took flight.  They were in fright flight, dipping and diving and right on their tails was a rocket named Beauty.  I got this one picture of the pigeons flying with Beauty in the background, coming in fast!

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She flew past the pigeons and headed for the Mercury statue, landing on the moneybag hand.  Starlings scattered every which way.

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She only stayed a moment before heading east and flying behind Xerox.  I did not see her come out either end, so I followed.  I looked for her, but couldn’t find her.  So, before I lost daylight, I decided to head to the BS location.

At 5:00 pm, I found BST on the NW corner of the building.  I circled the building looking for Pigott, but couldn’t find her, so I parked where I could watch BST.  It wasn’t long before he dropped off of the building, wings tight to his body and feet hanging down.  Then his wings flipped up and out and he did a perfect U-turn, landing on a north facing window on the west extention.  He scooted over to the right side of the window and I’m pretty sure he was going to settle there for the evening.  Now where was Pigott?

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I again circled the building.  Once, twice  and there she was!  Pigott had snuck in as it got dark.  She was on the north facing 6th window down on the east extension.  This was where I was used to seeing them roost at night.  Larry O stopped for a few moments on his way home.  Well, I was very happy to see her, since this made 3 current Rochester Falcons seen this evening, making it a very good day!

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I circled one more time to check to make sure that BST was still where I left him and he was.  It was time for me to head home.

As I came around the back of the building I noticed three shapes scampering on the lawn close to the building.  I parked my car to watch the joyful play of three deer.  It looked like a momma deer with two young ones.  Not fawns, they had no spots and they were slightly smaller than the adult and boy did they want to play.  Maybe yearlings, last years’ young?  While mom was contentedly chewing on grass, which is now showing thanks to the thaw we are going through, while the two rambunctious youngsters were running at high speeds and leaping into the air!  I couldn’t help but laugh out loud at their antics.  Mom was being very patient with them as they charged her and ran away again.  Hahaha!  I wish it hadn’t been so dark, I would have loved to have shared a video of their play.  I just sat there laughing until it finally got too dark to see them.  What a wonderful way to end my falcon watch!

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