By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

This mornings weather was a carbon copy of yesterday with very fine light snow for a short time and a temperature of 25 degrees (F) -4 (C). Overcast skies and no wind to speak of.

Starting my watch on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) at 6:25am I didn’t see Beauty on any buildings in that area so as per usual I drove to the east side. As I stopped on Woodbury St. near Washington Square Park so I can check Xerox, Bausch & Lomb (B&L) and HSBC on their south and west sides I spotted Beauty. She was on the southwest corner of HSBC so I drove over to Chestnut St. and parked by Manhattan Square Park for closer viewing.

Beauty flew off to the northwest 15 minutes later and I found her 5 minutes later on the south side of B&L. I parked on Court St. to observe her as she was filling the air with feathers from the catch she had made or the cached food she had up there.

Beauty spent less than 10 minutes on the southwest corner preparing and eating when she sprang up and looked around in an alarmed way. She then flew off going around to the northwest corner of B&L where I spotted her from the Court St. Bridge. I drove around to Broad St. and parked by Tim Hortons at the Central Library. This is where Unity was run over by a car last year on Good Friday. I think of her fondly whenever I am near this spot.

I don’t know if the Beautyful one cached her leftovers up there or somewhere else when I couldn’ t see her but when she flew off 10 minutes later she was empty taloned. She went straight to the west corner top ibeam of OCSR. I drove down to State St. across from the Rochester Plaza Hotel for the best view of her. It was 7:20am so Beauty had kept me pretty busy in the first hour of my watch.

Beauty turned her back to me after a bit so I left to check the Lake Tower site for a PEFA-again no sighting of one there. It’s over a week since one has been spotted there so perhaps it has moved on or it is the Kodak Park falcon that was seen a couple days ago. Returning to see that Beauty was still on OCSR I left for the Brighton Site (BS) to see if Miss Pigott was home. On the way I saw a Merlin chasing after a couple pigeons in the Cornhill area near the Ford St. Bridge as I sat waiting for a red light. Upon arriving at BS about 8:30am I found Pigott was indeed home in hunt mode on the southwest corner of the west extension.

15 minutes later she got restless and flew out and landed on the northwest corner where she started eating cached food. I guess she couldn’t wait any longer for a fresh kill!

It took Pigott less than 5 minutes to eat her little snack. She wiped her beak off on the edge of the roof,shook herself,spread her gorgeous wings and flew back over to the southwest corner.

I consider that northwest corner her dining room for she caches and eats food there a lot and I guess she didn’t want to clean up from her meal there thus flying back to the southwest corner. Pigott pooped,preened,stretched and cleaned her talons in the next half hour.

I left Pigott just before the 10 o’clock hour and as I passed thru downtown saw that Beauty was still on the west corner of OCSR. I ended my watch with a smile for having seen both of our resident female Peregrine Falcons had eaten and were safe! 🙂

Click and view the links below for more pics and videos from my watch

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http://youtu.be/kXmMee5qaWg

http://youtu.be/nh9utZW1eko

http://youtu.be/nQtevI929IM

http://youtu.be/L87S0R5L3Hg

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