By Rochester Falcon Watcher Joyce (wnyfalconfan)

When Steve asked if I would like to go for another watch today (2 days in a row), I never thought we would be out for 4 hours from 2-6pm. The ankle is healing well, but I’m still not getting around by myself yet. I think the tweets going off on my phone all morning got his curiosity up. He enjoyed the adventure and hunt to find our area peregrines.

There were lots of watchers covering many places around Rochester today. A total of 7 falcons (6 peregrines, 1 merlin) and 1 northern screech-owl were sighted in Brighton (BS), Downtown (DT), Lake Ave Tower (LT), Kodak Park (KP), and Irondequoit Bay Bridge area (IBB).

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We started at BS. Carol, Dana & Lou were watching Pigott, hoping the tiercel (that was spotted earlier) would return.

We headed DT, parked on BSB (Broad Street Bridge) and found Beauty under the SE wing of Times Square Building (TSB).  She had prey or leftovers. She moved closer to the wing and then wiped her beak on the ledge.

She took off heading NE, and then came back to TSB flying around the south side landing on the ledge under SW wing.  We parked on Main across the street from the south side of TSB.  A bit close, but we had to take what we could get…parking spaces were scarce. NOTE – in the first photo with Beauty’s back to camera, it looks like a raptor wing feather against the base of the wing to her left. Wonder if this is where the missing raptor from Crossroads ended up.

Since Beauty didn’t look like she was going to move for awhile, we headed to check out the LT peregrine falcon. Nothing in sight. Carol tweeted that she had a falcon at KP. I called her to see how long she was planning on watching it. I was thinking that we might be seeing the same peregrine, and Steve and I would wait to see if that falcon leaves KP and how soon one arrives at LT for night roosting. Carol had a long day and already headed home, so we went for a cup of Dunkin’s coffee and returned to wait it out anyway.

At 4:30 I pointed…we’ve got a falcon flying around the back of the building chasing starlings from the trees. Then it was quiet. I asked Steve to check out the other side of the building, and sure enough there she was sitting 2 floors down from the roof. We are calling this LT falcon a female (LTF) because she is big. I clicked and clicked, but no confirmation of bands yet.

Steve and I headed back to BS to see if BST had come back to roost. Pigott was close to the same location on the west extension where we left her earlier. We circled the building a few times, but it was getting dark. Pigott remained by herself.

The bonus of the day was our sighting of a sleeping eastern screech-owl in Highland Park.

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