By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Arriving on the Broad St. Bridge(BSB) this morning I was greeted by a gorgeous eastern sky and as I looked over at OCSR a falcon flew off the west corner top ibeam. This is one of Beautys’  favorite spots so I assume it was her.

I checked HSBC area on the east side with no luck and so I went to the BSB and parked myself on a picnic table by the Rundell Library. As I sat there looking around I spotted a big huge spider in its web attached to a light pole and there was plenty of little bugs caught in that web.

Finally about 7:15am Beauty showed up on the west corner top ibeam of OCSR. I left for the hole so I could observe our Beautyful resident downtown female Peregrine Falcon at closer proximity.

I set up my chair by the corner of the Keybank and looking down Aqueduct St. to Main St. I noticed a very large crowd of kids in their school uniforms at my bus stop and then 3 cop cars pulled up. The crowd thinned out real quick and then a cop drove up through the alley to ask me if I saw the fight. I missed the main event but that’s perfectly fine with me.

After that Mike one of the parking lot attendants stopped by to ask about the falcons. He witnessed Jemison fly into a window on the backside of the Telesca building in 2010 thus injuring himself. Then a visit from DebbieH on her way to work and right after she left Beauty was gone from OCSR but Dot.Ca(DC) was on the top ibeam south corner and then he too flew off. 5 minutes later a woman named Chris who works in the building that Subway resides in came up to me and said I’ve been dying to ask what everyone is always looking at and she thought it was Hawks. I straightened her out on that and told her a few things about our soap opera here and then I gave her a rfalconcam business card. She thanked me and said it was a wonderful thing that people volunteered their time to look out for the falcons. I agreed! lol

Boy what a difference a day makes. Yesterday I saw very little in the way of  falcons and today I’d seen both Beauty and DC plus had some good chit chats with my friends and met a new one. Donna gave me the heads up that Beauty had been to the nest box very briefly(probably while Chris and I were gabbing) at 8:01. Thanks so much to her for all the help she is always giving me while I’m downtown by myself. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up on your own and when people watching the cams can help it’s much appreciated even if I don’t always acknowledge their efforts.

I left the hole to head up to the BSB and when I got to the intersection of Exchange and Broad st. I looked to the east with my binocs spotting a falcon looking  bump on Bausch&Lomb(B&L). I then proceeded to the South Ave. garage for a birds eye view of what turned out to be Beauty on the north side upper roof.

Suddenly I heard very loud vocalization from close by. I looked up to see a falcon chasing pigeons above me and around the back of Midtown where I lost sight of it. There were many more pigeons scattering everywhere and Beauty turned around to watch showing the front of her. About 15 minutes later she took off  flying right above me on the garage past the Radisson, across the river and going behind the OCSR where I couldn’ t see her. I then spotted DC on the OCSR perched on his south corner top ibeam spot. I came down from the garage and when I had a view of the OCSR DC had gone down to the 2nd ibeam.

After 5 minutes passed DC flew off after a larger bird(probably a hawk) behind the Crossroads building and that would be the last I saw of our pefas. I went to catch the next bus home with a big old smile on my face for having an active morning watch! 🙂

Click the links below to veiw pics and videos from my watch

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http://youtu.be/ygk0BpCWElc
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http://youtu.be/nRXyT40QFiw
http://youtu.be/-QsfVWvv1Zs

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