By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Hi gang! Yesterday I had nothing to report other than I did catch a glimpse of a falcon going into the nestbox. The little sneaks! This morning it was half hour into my watch before I found Beauty on the southeast corner of the HSBC building. The sun was shining quite nicely on her and I could tell she was in hunting mode because she was looking all around and down.

Notice the color difference, the first pic with the sun to my right and the second with the sun behind me. Isn’t that amazing?!  Anyway, I got to spend all of maybe 10 minutes with her before she was off and stooping!

Boy she was fast streaking through to behind the Columbus building and out of sight. Only to resurface for some height so she could stoop again. The Beautyful one did this 3 more times diving down in a stoop and coming back up for some altitude. I tell ya these birds are just so exciting to watch. I don’t think I could ever tire of seeing them! Sooo now the hunt is on to find a falcon.  I spotted Mr. Great Blue Heron and filled a few minutes of my watch checking out the river.

It would be close to 2 hours later that I caught one more brief glimpse of the elusive one Beauty. I was getting ready to call it a watch when I spotted her on the west corner of the OCSR building 2nd ibeam down. I tweeted it out and drove down to Aqueduct St. but she had left while I was in transit. There was lots of foot and car traffic near the Blue Cross Arena and Times Square area this morning because the Jehovahs Witnesses are in town again. They’ll be here through the weekend. Keep your eyes to the sky! 🙂

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