By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Good golly Miss Molly, Beauty laid her 3rd egg at 2:07am with temps around the freezing mark.

It was 29 (F) -2 (C) when I left for my watch with virtually no wind for a change and partly cloudy skies. I arrived on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) at 5:58am and could see no falcons although I was pretty sure Beauty was on the eggs cuz I checked the cams before I left. I waited and watched until6:40am and decided to check the Brighton site (BS) to see if  Dot.Ca (DC) was over there since he was so late showing up downtown today. I found Pigott all by herself  on the southeast corner.

I left her after a few minutes for downtown and found DC under the northeast wing of the Times Square building (TSB) when I arrived.

He looked to be in hunt mode and soon after he took off to the west after stopping by the deck near the well wall for a few seconds.

I drove to the Andrews St bridge to look for DC and found him on the top arm north side of the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT). I went to Plymouth Ave to get a closer look and make sure it was him and not UT. He flew off to the north a minute or two after I got there. I went back to the BSB where the parking wa filling up for a cheerleading competition so I went down to the hole. At 7:15am DC came flying in with food and went to the back of the northeast wing ledge to have a few bites as he started  plucking feathers to prepare it for Beauty.

5 minutes later Beauty flew up and landed at the end of the ledge and DC took off with the prey and went to the top ibeam southeast side of OCSR to finish preparing it. Beauty flew to the south corner to watch him and then they both took off.

<B> <Beauty

There was a food exchange where I couldn’t see because Beauty ended up on the east end corner of the Wilder green strip with food.

DC had naturally gone to the nest box to sit on his eggs and when Beauty finished her small meal she just kinda rested.

Larry came by for a few minutes and while he was there we watched a brave starling land like 6 feet from Beauty. We got a big chuckle out of that.

Click the pic to see full version

Larry left and I decided to end my watch at 8:30am figuring all was quiet and having seen all 3 Rochester Peregrine Falcons safe and sound. 3 eggs is so much a great reason to smile don’t you think?! 🙂

Click the links below for more pics and videos

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWreIg

http://youtu.be/iSjKId49jGU
http://youtu.be/zBsKm8rnxQI
http://youtu.be/iWDEXfleG6A
http://youtu.be/g0SCZ36IYYY

---

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 21st, 2013 at 11:28 AM and is filed under Falcon Watch. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.