By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Up and down,up and down that’s how spring temperatures go-today when I started my watch it was 36 (F) 2 (C) some 20 degrees colder than yesterday. No matter, because the sun was out!

As I made my way to the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) a tweet from Annette came in saying that Beauty was out of the nest box and Dot.Ca (DC) was on their eggs. Thank you Annette and Donna too who helped me this morning! I found Beauty on the base of Mercury her favorite perch lately.

15 minutes later as I watched from the hole (Aqueduct St.) my favorite  watching spot lately lol,  Beauty flew west out of view.

She returned to Mercury a minute or 2 later , staying 5 minutes then stooping down to the river toward the Court St. bridge. I drove up to the BSB but couldn’t see Beauty anywhere so I took a ride around downtown twice. As I was stopped on the BSB at 7am I spotted her on the 3rd arm down of the jail tower.

I quickly drove over to Troup St. for closer viewing but just as I got there Beauty took off very fast flying north. I  went  searching stopping at the Pont De Rennes pedestrian bridge at High Falls which is right next to the Genesee brewery to check out the city from there.

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I ended up on the Andrews St. Bridge (ASB) at 7:35am and could barely see a falcon on the base of Mercury. Bet you can’t guess who! lol Of course it was the Beautyful one!!

I made it to the BSB just in time to see Beauty stick her tail up in the air for DC who flew in to mate with her.

Click them!

DC flew to the northeast wing of the Times Square building (TSB) and Beauty went to the nest box when they were done.

DC did some preening in the 10 minutes that he was up there. Just before he took off he launched a great big poop and then flew northwest.

I went to the Brighton site (BS) when DC didn’t return right away. For the 3rd or 4th day in a row I had no luck in seeing or hearing Pigott and DC wasn’t there either. I returned to downtown about 8:45am and from the hole I found DC on the well wall.

He walked from the north end over to the end next to the deck and back before flying over to the southeast corner of the deck to stare at Beauty in the nest box.

DC got his point across to Beauty as she flew over to the base of Mercury and he sat down on their eggs.  His favorite spot lately! lol  10 minutes later just before 9am Beauty flew over to the top ibeam southeast side of OCSR.

She hung out there as I watched from the hole for the next 25 minutes and then she went to-yes that’s right, the base of Mercury!  It was around this time that I observed city workers placing many garbage cans on both sides of the BSB-YAY maybe there won’t be so much garbage all over it now. Anyway, Beauty stayed 20 minutes then stooped down to the river toward the Court St. Bridge once again.

I drove up to the BSB and saw Beauty fly  above the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and circle a couple times. She had nothing in her talons so I knew she missed whatever she had stooped on. I lost sight of her behind the Rundell library and that would be the last time I saw her as I ended my watch at 10:20am. I had a real nice watch this morning which sent me home smiling!! 🙂

I have included links below to view more pics and videos if you so desire

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http://youtu.be/KECOlh-pn3g
http://youtu.be/FE47Pu0DB8Q
http://youtu.be/5SJo-aI1gAQ
http://youtu.be/knzzuHsJTqo
http://youtu.be/nXXZf3yKbTQ
http://youtu.be/fUx8HPjE2Go
http://youtu.be/-7zjR2anmQU

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