By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was 72 (F) 22 (C) when I started my watch today and we are forecast to go down from there and not see it again for a while. Rain was coming down on and off at varying degrees throughout my watch with overcast, windy, dark and foggy conditions

Click on the pics to see the full version

NEVER FORGET

9-11

Wow-2 days in a row Billie has graced me with her presence to start my watch. She was on the south side of Seneca Towers on the top (22nd floor) window ledge looking quite wet in the rain. She didn’t stay for long as she hopped off and flew down  the ledge and flew straight down toward the river.

I made my way downtown and had a look around, finding no falcons to be out and about-who could blame them with the lousy weather. I went over to the Radisson Hotel to check the OCSR elevator shaft but the wind driven rain, fog and darkness made it hard to see anything up there. I could barely make out the shape of a falcon and the white of Dot.Ca (DC) on the south side ledge until the rain let up.

DC stretched his wings  and turned around to show me his back . I left him to look for the Beautyful one exiting out on Bangdon Place and up to St. Paul St. where road construction mess was going on.

I did find Beauty on the base of Mercury as I drove down Main St. ending up on Broad St. next to the Blue Cross Arena around 8:15am.  About 10 minutes later she stooped down toward the river and returned without breakfast. I then went up on the Broad St. Bridge on the north side to observe.

Beauty did some preening-pulling out feathers as she continues to molt. She was mostly interested in looking for breakfast as she watched pigeons come out from under the bridge. She had her eyes fixed on them but opted to stay put as I watched dark skies to the north and west.

Around 9am Beauty looked to the north toward OCSR and flew off-I quickly saw why. DC had come out of hiding in the elevator shaft and was flying near the Radisson Hotel over the river. Beauty joined him in flight and then they both went to the top ibeam southeast side of OCSR. DC was chirping and he even bowed once or twice as they faced each other at the start.

<Click it

Soon after, Beauty turned around and walked away from DC a few feet then stopped with her back to him. I went to the Radisson Hotel by Main St. which has now been milled as well, from the west end of the Main St. bridge to Clinton Ave.

<Click it   <DC>

Beauty wouldn’t look our way as I decided to take off for home. I checked the Kodak Hawkeye plant and Seneca Towers but saw no falcons thus ending my watch at 10am. I love it when DC chirps-that was one highlight of my watch that made me smile! 🙂

Click on the links below to view todays videos

http://youtu.be/9jWcDRQItFI

http://youtu.be/ZRIemTjH9Uc

http://youtu.be/ZjEYoHx_CFA

http://youtu.be/2ztjSFNPluU

http://youtu.be/jER-fp7PsDY

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 11th, 2014 at 1:03 PM and is filed under Falcon Watch. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.