By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

I took my time getting around this morning and made my way down to the Broad St. bridge(BSB) about 8:30am. To my delight I found both Beauty and Dot.Ca(DC) on the Times Square building(TSB). She was on deck and he was under the southeast wing.

Larry stopped long enough to say hi and then he was on his way. About half hour later Donna texted that a couple gulls were reported injured and seen at Charlotte Beach. I decided to leave our lovely pair of Peregrines to search for and perhaps rescue these 2 gulls. I knew it was a long shot but I had to try. There were gulls everywhere as I made my way thru the parking lots  by the Port of Rochester and eventually over to the pier and beach area. The clouds over Lake Ontario were awesomely cool including one that was hooking up with the water to create lake effect rain.

When I got out on the pier far enough to see the beach I thought, boy there’s a lot of gulls out there. I checked,checked and re-checked with my binocs and didn’t see any obvious injured gulls.

I made my way out to the end of the pier asking people along the way if they’d seen a gull with a missing foot or leg and a gull with fishing line coming out its mouth. The first couple I asked said they had seen the footless one with a little fishing line hanging from its leg so I’m thinking the line severed the poor things foot off. They saw it a couple days ago but everyone else I spoke to hadn’t seen either one of them. I watched one fisherman catch a Rainbow trout and bring it up out of the lake onto the pier.

I chatted with him as he retrieved the hook from the fish and I asked him to please be responsible with his hooks and fishing line as they threaten wildlife. He said no problem as I resumed my search. I spent almost 2 hours looking without finding either one of these gulls. There were lots of pumpkins at a pavillion in the park and it looked like they were setting up for some kind of  Halloween event.  I left Charlotte to check at KP before returning to the downtown area. No pefa at KP but when I returned to the BSB I found Beauty on the top ibeam southeast side of the OCSR building.

My camera was acting up  when Dawn joined me by Falcon Watcher Central. 20 minutes later Bobbie Ireland joined the watch and we walked up on the BSB to check the river. Bobbie asked me where the Green Heron hangs out and I pointed to the rivers edge below the Thomson Reuters building when suddenly she said what just moved down there? It was the Green Heron and she and Dawn were just thrilled to see it.  Bobbie had to leave and then it started to sprinkle so Dawn and I left as well.

My first trip to Charlotte in my Angel Car made me smile as I drove off ending a very busy watch on this seventh day of October!

There are a couple surprise pics at the end of my photo album-click the links below to see it along with 2 videos

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWrKcg

http://youtu.be/Rf7qjtKHNaY
http://youtu.be/5e97D69gcQo

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