Morning watch 9-14-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
It was mostly cloudy mixed with some sun this morning and starting temperature of 45 (F) 7 (C)
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I started my watch at Seneca Towers where I had Veteran on the west side roof railing at 6:45am. He turned, vocalized and flew southwest a couple minutes later.
While checking the east side of downtown I spotted Beauty on a southwest corner of Bausch & Lomb (B&L) from Broad and Chestnut St. I drove over to Clinton Ave. across from Washington Square Park to watch her. She flew off when I wasn’t looking-I drove to the Broad St. Bridge where I found her on a southwest corner on the Hyatt Hotel. She wasn’t there for long after she pooped.
Beauty flew back to B&L landing on Archer’s southwest corner.
I then drove to Court St. across from the Court St. garage for closer look. There were pigeons between Beauty and I on the garage roof but she was looking elsewhere. Beauty flew off into a stoop over the river toward Cornhill at break neck speed.
I decided to go to the Radisson Hotel near Main St. to check the OCSR elevator shaft for Dot.Ca (DC)-he wasn’t in there but I found Beauty up on the top ibeam south corner.
The sun peeked out from the clouds and a blue sky appeared behind the Beautyful one making her look much lighter.
Around 8am Beauty turned around and dropped off into a stoop straight down the southwest side of OCSR.
I spotted Beauty on the middle arm of the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT) as I was driving down State St. I went to the parking lot by the Hochstein School of Music to observe her. She was preening and pulling more feathers out as she continues to molt.
DC came flying in from the southeast around 8:15am and landed on the northeast cube. He had his back to me and was in a bad spot to see the front of him.
I went to the City Hall parking lot to get a side view while DC preened. Still couldn’t see him that great but I was glad to see him at all.
Beauty flew south just before the 9 o’clock hour. I stayed a it with DC then I left-I checked the Brighton site and returned to downtown. I never found Beauty again but DC was on the FCT platform railing south side as I made my way back over there. He turned his back on me so I left.
I checked Hawkeye and found a red-tail Hawk on the west side roof and no sightings at Seneca Towers as I ended my watch at 11am.
I was smiling as I parked the car and headed up to my 16th floor apartment after a peaceful Sunday morning falcon watch! 🙂
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