By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was overcast at the start today with a temperature of 30 (F) -1 (C) but by the end of my watch the sun was shining brightly

I didn’t find any falcons home at Seneca Towers as I left for downtown today. It took me a half hour before I came upon Beauty on the southeast corner of the Kodak Office launchpad. She had her back to me where I first pulled over at State and Platt St.

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As you can see in the last pic it was so dark out at 7:30am that the Kodak red lights were still on. So I went down another block to State and Brown St. where I had a front view of the Beautyful one.

I took many pictures of her in the half hour I spent watching as she preened, but the distance and darkness made them pretty blurry. I had to leave to get some blood work done and when I returned downtown I noticed a white spot on the 3rd ibeam northwest side of OCSR as I approached from the north on State St. It was gone when I got close enough to see that it was a falcon. I stopped across from the Federal building on Andrews St. to check out some trees that still had some nice color on them.

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I made a trip around downtown looking for falcons and ended up on Bragdon Place by the Radisson Hotel to check the OCSR elevator shaft. I’m pretty sure it was Dot.Ca that I found up on the south side ledge.

I didn’t stay long as watching a falcon up in the elevator shaft is similar to watching paint dry! lol One more check of downtown for Beauty proved fruitless so I left for home. Once again there were no falcons at Seneca Towers as I ended my watch at 9:40am. It was an uneventful falcon watch this morning but still, any time I see a falcon is enough reason to make me smile! 🙂

Click on the links below to see videos

http://youtu.be/PDUI-nnpeVM

http://youtu.be/kyYkq1psC_g

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