Morning watch 10-11-13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
It wasn’t quite as sunny this morning as it has been but the rest of the day was filled with sunshine. The temperature as I stepped out the house was 44 degrees (F) 7 (C)
As I stopped on Woodbury St. to check Xerox and HSBC I spotted a falcon on the southwest corner of HSBC with its back to me so I drove to my spot on Chestnut St. for a front view-it was Beauty peeking out from the corner.
10 minutes later Beauty flew to the northwest corner giving me a few shots in succession of her flight toward me.
After she landed on the corner she took a few steps to the south nibbled on some cached food and returned to the corner with a chunk of it.
The Beautyful one had a few looks around, scarfed down the last bit of food and took flight at 7:33am heading northwest.
I drove straight away to the Broad St. Bridge stopping to check around-I spotted a falcon on the top arm east side of the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT). I drove over to Fitzhugh St. and parked in front of City Hall finding that it was Beauty. She was all foofed up to keep warm in the chilly morning air and she preened off and on while keeping an eye on her territory.
I left Beauty to look for Dot.Ca (DC) but didn’t find him so I went over to the Brighton Site (BS). There was no sign of Pigott or UT (unbanded tiercel) and I started to wonder if maybe DC was running UT out of town. Fellow falcon watcher and friend DebbieH called me saying she would like to meet me at BS so I could give her a tour of the site. She arrived around 9:30am and after I showed her around we took a trip to downtown finding Beauty and DC on the FCT. She was on the northeast cube and he was above her on a beam below the platform.
So I breathed a sigh of relief that DC wasn’t off doing battle with UT. We stayed with the downtown dynamic duo for a few minutes and then left at about 10:15am to check out Hawkeye and Seneca Towers where we found no PEFAs. Making our way back to BS to get my car there still was no sign of Pigott or UT so we called it a watch at 11:00am. I liked the color of this tree so I thought I should share.
It was nice to pal around with Debbie on my watch today and share some smiles! 🙂
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