By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was a nasty morning-49 degrees (F) 9 (C) pouring rain, foggy and dark

I checked the livestream before leaving for my watch at 6am and thought Beauty was on the eggs although I couldn’t tell for sure since all I saw was a back. When I got downtown I was looking for Dot.Ca (DC) and having a hard time of it. Cam watcher Annette tweeted a switch on the eggs-Beauty out and DC in at 6:48am. This was incorrect as Donna (thanks) let me know that DC had been on the eggs since 5:40am and I checked the archives to confirm. It wasn’t until 7:20am that Beauty showed up-as I watched from Aqueduct and Basin St. in the hole she flew in from the east and landed on the deck next to the main cam.

I started taping her and DC came flying out almost immediately heading northeast. Beauty stayed perched where she was momentarily then hopped into the nest box to cover those precious eggs. One of them and possibly 2 started pipping yesterday so a hatch will be very soon.

I left to look for DC and found him around 7:35am from State St. across from the Rochester Plaza Hotel-he was on the 2nd ibeam near the west corner of OCSR.

DC had his back to me trying to seek shelter from the rain that was falling. I watched him for nearly an hour and when I wasn’t looking he left the building. I drove up to the Broad St. Bridge to look for him and found the apparatus set up on the southeast side of OCSR for people to rappel down. I thought maybe he sensed people up on the roof  and that’s why DC left. I ended my watch at this point around 8:30am.

Earlier I had been on the Court St. Bridge and got out to check the river since it sounded so loud. The water level was half way up the open arches under the Broad St. Bridge and it was rolling along at a good clip. I took video of it so all could see-I apologize for yelling on it as I thought you wouldn’t be able to hear me over the raging river. lol And after I ended my watch I stopped by the High Falls to shoot a video as well.

I’ve added a bonus video of STJ  the female banded 67/AR on the Veterans Bridge last night and I took a pic of a pic off the LCD screen of Joyces’ camera of STT giving STJ a food gift.

I hope it makes you smile as much as it did me! 🙂

Click on the links below to view 5 videos from my watch

http://youtu.be/cP_6w3KgkF8

http://youtu.be/HFCkT3u1PU8

http://youtu.be/qBEi_DgtUvw

http://youtu.be/157HxX9R830

http://youtu.be/ZPzNI5A9T8k

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