Morning watch 11-5-13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Today the starting temperature for my watch was 38 (F) 3 (C) with a bit of a breeze and sunny
I started the day my favorite way-with Beauty and she was under the northeast wing of the Times Square Building (TSB). I was parked by He’s Chinese facing the TSB with Mercury at my back, so when cam watcher Annette tweeted a few minutes later that a falcon was on the money bag, I simply turned my head to see Dot.Ca (DC). Thank you Annette!
A few minutes later I missed Beauty fly off TSB and when I turned to check on DC he was gone too-that’s how it goes sometimes. As I was driving down Broad St. near Fitzhugh St. I happened to notice Beauty on the northwest corner of the lower roof in the back of the TSB. I got one pic of her and started taping when she flew off around 7:10am.
10 minutes after that I saw the Beautyful one fly to the northeast corner of Widows Walk (WW) but all I could see was her tail from Fitzhugh St.-she was eating, so I drove to Broad St. by the Democrat and Chronicle where I could see the front of her.
Beauty spent less than 5 minutes eating which told me it was cached food. She flew off and 10 minutes later as I was on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) I watched her fly in from the east and come to rest under the northeast wing of the TSB. She had more cached food and polished it off quickly then she turned around showing me her back.
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I left and checked the Brighton site around 8:10am with no luck finding Pigott, but I did see her later this afternoon when I was there just like yesterday. Upon returning downtown, I found DC on the north corner top ibeam of OCSR and Beauty was a few feet away from him.
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They seemed content and settled so I thought I would try my luck elsewhere, since I had some extra gas in the tank. Starting at Hawkeye-there was no falcon sighting but I did check the river foliage from the Driving Park Bridge-the colors are fading and the trees are quickly becoming bare now.
After I left there I drove straight down St. Paul Blvd. checking Seneca Towers on my way to Summerville to check out the coast guard station but no PEFA at either location or across the river in Charlotte. Next stop was Russell Station with the same result but I found a huge burning bush on Beach Ave. and some mute swans on Round Pond off Dewey Ave.
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As I left the swans the sun got taken over by clouds but I wasn’t done yet-I also checked the North Greece fire department antenna for the Latta Rd. falcon but again I found nothing and this would end my watch at 9:45am. So even tho I struck out, it was a nice change of pace to take a drive near Lake Ontario and see the sights that go along with it which put a smile on my face! 🙂
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