By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Brrr what a chilly morning out there today but no worries I had a sweatshirt and my warm Wolf  hooded pullover to keep me warm! And yes Donna, I wore my gloves! lol A cool 46 degrees isn’t going to keep me from watching our beloved falcons! After checking everything in view from the Broad St. Bridge(BSB) I continued on to the east side where Beauty roosts at night on Xerox and hunts first thing in the morning off the HSBC building. Sure enough when I arrived at the intersection of  Broad and Clinton where HSBC comes into view I spotted a falcon on the northwest corner. I was certain it was Beauty but I walked to the intersection of Broad and Chestnut for a closer look and pic to ID her as the one for sure and she had breakfast up there with her.

Notice the very salmony color of her with the sun in front of me but not quite breaking thru the horizon yet. Now look at her color when I walked down further to the east to get the sun behind me near the newly constructed traffic circle.

It just amazes me what the lighting does to the front shots of these falcons! She spent quite some time plucking and eating before she suddenly flew off with absolutely no warning right up Broad St. heading toward the river. I packed up and headed that way after her. As soon as the Times Square building came into view I grabbed my binocs to take a look and could see Beauty toward the back of the ledge under the southeast wing.

She was sleeping a lot of the time and half sleeping too keeping one eye open and the other closed. What a goof ball! lol I first was watching her from the Blue Cross Arena landing which is on the BSB side. I decided she wasn’t going anywhere for a while so I went to Tim Hortons on Main St.  for a nice hot cup of coffee. When I returned I sat down on the planter box by He’s Chinese restaurant to be up close and personal with my favorite feathered friend.

I swear she was looking at me in that last pic. After a while she pooped and I thought she might be getting ready to leave.

My camera battery was flashing that it was about to go dead so I replaced it and as is my luck Beauty left the building without saying a word to me. So I had no idea where to look for her as I didn’t see what direction she flew off to. I went up on the BSB and looked around, stopping for a few minutes to take a couple pics and a video of the river residents below. When I didn’t find Beauty anywhere I figured she was on the north side of OCSR so I walked down South Ave. to Main St. and to the Radisson Hotel. From there I spotted her on the top ibeam northeast side. I felt that she would probably just sit there idol for a few hours so I started to walk to my bus stop on Main St. in front of OCSR. As I walked across the Main St. bridge I looked up at OCSR just for the heck of it and there on the top ibeam tucked in the corner by the elevator shaft was Dot.Ca with his back facing out.

I didn’t see a whole lot of action today but I did spend some quality time with Beauty and a bonus of seeing DC just before I left on the bus which surely made me leave the city smiling! 🙂

Click the links below for my pics and videos of the day

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWrI-A

http://youtu.be/syNZ7M2tdNI
http://youtu.be/rXTK8kcBqSw
http://youtu.be/2w04-22Wq4c
http://youtu.be/6hKO_dIYAGY
http://youtu.be/p35_dfFFWqM

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