Morning watch 9-7-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
It was a chilly, sunny, bright blue sky start to the day with a temperature of 53 (F) 12 (C)
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When I arrived on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) Beauty was picking at scraps on the base of Mercury. She soon jumped down off the green part to the northeast corner then back up to the green.
She did some preening, tried to extract a pellet, roused and pooped in the next 20 minutes or so.
Beauty settled down for a bit watching for breakfast to present itself and then she stood at attention and stooped off the back of the base.
While she was gone I checked the river and found a Great Blue Heron hunting for his breakfast. Beauty returned to the base until a group of pigeons appeared from under the bridge.
She took off after them, as they scattered, she pinpointed 2 of them and chased them over the north side of the river. She hit one right in front of me but it descended down under the bridge uninjured. Next she set her sights on the other one and chased it around Thomson Reuters hitting it as they reached the roof line on the south side. It too, escaped her clutches and she made a sweep over the river before returning to the base of Mercury. A few minutes later the Beautyful one flew east and met Dot.Ca (DC) by Chase.
They flew around Chase then behind Bausch & Lomb out of sight. I drove over to the east side to find Beauty on a northwest corner of B&L but no DC.
Beauty preened pretty much the whole time she was up there and at 8:19am she spread her wings and launched herself off the building and flew east, turned around by HSBC returned to B&L for a second or two then off to the east again out of sight. I noticed flags on all sides of the Midtown which is being renovated as I looked for her. And had to stop and check out the fountains in Martin Luther King Jr. park.
I caught up with Beauty on the base of Mercury where she had a fresh catch and was plucking away at the feathers. I stayed only briefly then went over to the Radisson Hotel to check the OCSR elevator shaft for DC-he was on the south side.
I left downtown and checked Hawkeye, Kodak research and Seneca Towers but again saw no PEFAs-I ended my watch at 9:35am. However, while putting my report together, Veteran has flown past my window here at Seneca Towers 3 times and you know that’s got me smiling! 🙂
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September 7th, 2014 at 1:19 PM
Yea! You got to see Veteran! Nice shots of the Beautyful one! 🙂
September 7th, 2014 at 7:14 PM
Thanks Patricia! Yea, I was excited to see Veteran for sure!! 🙂