By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was pretty much overcast and foggy with a starting temperature of 47 (F) 8 (C) and a short glimpse of the sun

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As I made my way to the visitor parking at Seneca Towers to turn around and face the building, I noticed big girl Billie on the northwest corner roof railing.

I started to tape her and didn’t even notice that Veteran was up on the railing as well-he wasn’t there when I first saw Billie. He started feaking, so I believe he might have been down on the roof eating prior to perching on  the railing.

Buffalo Billie flew off first around 7am followed a split second later by her beau, Veteran-they were headed south when I lost them behind the trees. I left for downtown and ran into some issues with road work being done on the east side. They were paving Woodbury St. so that was closed and so were parts of Court St. I ended up over on the west side on Fitzhugh St. where I found Beauty on the northeast cube of the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT) around 7:30am.

Only one pic came out well enough to post due to the lack of light this morning. She was all foofed up to stay warm.  I left the Beautyful one after 5 minutes to check the OCSR elevator shaft for Dot.Ca (DC). Parked on Bragdon Place, I could only see the south side and he wasn’t there. I checked FCT and saw that Beauty had left the cube and was now on the south side platform railing. She flew off and appeared to be going down on the platform. After checking the north side of the elevator shaft from Main St. I headed back to FCT and found Beauty on the west side railing. I pulled over on Plymouth Ave. to observe.

Besides the low light issue I had to wait for the exhaust smoke from the Frontier roof which would cover Beauty completely when it was  exiting the pipe. Needless to say I played with my pics a lot in Picassa today.

I decided to try a different spot where I didn’t have to deal with the smoke-soon after she flew northwest and I didn’t see her again until I returned at 8:20am from a trip around downtown. Now, she was on the beam that connects the north and southeast cubes with her back to me as she preened.

I left Beauty to look one more time for DC-I had no such luck but I found the Great Egret perched on a branch down in the same area of the river where I saw it yesterday. Then I crossed the Broad St. bridge and found a Black-crowned Night Heron on the north side of the bridge.

Before I left downtown I checked from the Andrews St. bridge-Beauty was still on FCT but I had no DC sightings this morning. I couldn’t help but notice the pretty bed of green and purple behind the Federal building.

This sight sent me on my way with a smile and I ended my watch at 9:30am! 🙂

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