By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Well it’s back to reality here in Rochester as the temperature was 31 (F) -1 (C) breezy and overcast when I left for my watch. The highs for the rest of the week will be in the 30’s.

Donna informed me as I arrived downtown that both Beauty and UT (unbanded tiercel) were in the nest box. I parked down in the hole(Aqueduct St.) and waited for them to show themselves to me. 10 minutes later UT flew out from the nest box and I would find out that Beauty had left as well. Keeping track of UT is hard enough-I don’t need Beauty being sneaky too! lol  No worries-it’s challenging and fun!

I went up to the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) in time to catch a glimpse of one of them stooping  near the Thomson Reuters building vanishing toward the Wilder building. Soo I drove back to the hole and watched Beauty and UT tandem hunting by Widows Walk (WW). They were swooping down at something going in and out of view.  I drove over to Broad St. near the Ebenezer Watts building for a better view as they kept up their aerial show circling above WW and the Times Square building (TSB) before flying out of my field of vision. I drove back to the BSB and saw Beauty fly to the deck near the nest box.

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Beauty went into the nest box and UT came flying in to join her. I missed both of them leave but UT came back to the nest box a few minutes later at 8:00am. He shot back out after a few minutes and flew south. UT then landed under the southeast wing for less than half a minute and took off heading south again.

It was at this time I found out why UT kept going south-the jail tower is in that direction and Beauty was on it according to DebbieH who texted me with this information. I drove to Troup St. but she was gone when I got there so I drove to the BSB to take a look around. I spotted Beauty as she flew to the jail tower and landed on the top arm west side.

She didn’t stay for long as I followed her fly to the east side,soaring above Xerox at 8:30am then she came across the river and landed on the Mercury money bag.

10 minutes later I saw UT at the nest box.

Beauty seemed to be looking for a meal below her as UT watched her from the nest box. At approximately 9:00am Beauty flew off after pigeons in the river with UT joining her before they both went to the nest box for another bowing session.

I left at this point to check the Brighton location. Pigott wasn’t there and after waiting half hour or so I returned to the downtown area. I could see a falcon on the Kodak Office launchpad so I drove over there to find Beauty on the southeast corner.

The Beautyful one and I shared space for more than 30 minutes when she flew off to the south. I followed and could see UT on the column above the nest box as I waited for the traffic light at Main and State. I parked by He’s Chinese to observe. UT dropped down to the nest box and Beauty flew in to join him around 10:40am. When they were down bonding UT flew out landing on the fledge ledge across from the nest box and Beauty made her way out to the deck next to cam 4.

Just before 11:00am UT flew up under the southeast wing of the Times Square building and when Beauty flew off to the south he followed her. I ended my watch smiling after having another fun filled time with this very busy pair of Peregrine Falcons! 🙂

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

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http://youtu.be/3SyeV1Jpp5I

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http://youtu.be/S1mgSwh6dS8

http://youtu.be/1jrZxFJg2qQ

http://youtu.be/2y2HB3iraEM

http://youtu.be/9CyECZLtVZA

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