By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

With a winter storm heading towards Rochester, NY and the northeast, a Nor’easter, I wanted to find all three of our falcons just in case I was unable to go out on a watch tomorrow afternoon.

As usual my first stop was downtown.  I found no falcons on the Kodak Tower, so I headed over to the Andrews St Bridge (ASB), where I noticed the river was very low.  You can see concrete structures jutting out from the river that you normally couldn’t see when the river was at its usual level.  I’ll include a few pictures of the river at the end of my report.

From the Andrews St Bridge, I found Beauty up on top of the Hyatt on the SW corner.  I tweeted that I had found her and headed over to the Broad St Bridge.

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After finding Beauty, I headed over to the BS location where I found both Pigott and BST on the west end of the building.  Pigott was on the NW corner of the west extension and BST was on a south facing window of the west extension.

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Soon after I arrived, BST took off and flew around to the north (front) side of the building landing on a window on the north side of the west extension below the scrape.  All was peaceful here and downtown, so it was time for me to head home.

To all of you in the path of the winter storm that will hit the northeast US, please be safe.  Sounds like some places will be getting a couple feet of snow or more.  Rochester is under a Winter Storm Warning starting at 1 am Friday morning to 5 am (EST) Saturday morning.  Storm total 6 to 12 inches of snow.

I’ll leave you with a few pictures of the Genesee River from the Andrews St and Broad St Bridges.

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