By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

I got a later start today.  It was another beautiful fall day with temps going up into the 50’s and sunshine.

Earlier in the day, Joyce had reported seeing Beauty on the Jail Communication Tower (JCT).  So after doing a quick check at KP and not finding any falcons there, I headed downtown. I checked the whole downtown area and could not find Beauty anywhere.  So I decided to check the BS location to see if I could fine any falcons there.  Nope!  No falcons their either.  Besides the Crows and Pigeons, I saw what may have been a feral cat or maybe it lived at one of the houses nearby.  All I know is that I interrupted a cat nap and the napping cat was not very happy with me.  It kind of reminded me of the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland and then it was gone!  Poof!   Hopefully this little one had a nice home nearby to go to.  I really wish people would not let their cats loose outside.  I know it’s not a falcon, but I had to include a couple pics of the BS cat.

After not finding a falcon at the BS location, I headed back downtown to look for Beauty and finally found her at 3:10 pm within the framework of the Frontier Communication Tower (FCT).  She was really hard to find  where she was.

Beauty took off heading southeast and I followed.  At 4:10 pm, I found her on the top Ibeam of the OCSR at the west end.

While I was watching Beauty, Joyce and Brian H had taken a trip to Buffalo and found Diamante (M&Ks son) and Glieg (Pigott’s sister) at home at the Central Terminal.  🙂

It was a nice ending to this weekend before Thanksgiving.

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Although it started out really cold and frosty this morning with temps in the high 20’s, it ended up being a very nice day, with lots of sunshine and temps in the 50’s.

Last night (Friday) Beauty was not seen.  While I was downtown watching the flock of Starlings that had taken over the Mercury statue, Joyce was at the BS location with Pigott.

This morning (Saturday), I arrived downtown around 7:30 am.  For a 1/2 hour I searched for Beauty with no luck.  I ended up at the Strong Museum of Play, and watched for awhile from that location.  Here are some pics I took while over there.

Moving on, I returned to the Broad St Bridge and was happy to see that Beauty had arrived (8:00 am).  She was on the money bag hand of the Mercury Statue.

From 8 – 10:30 am, I watched Beauty do what Peregrines do.  She was in hunt mode, chasing pigeons all over the city.  Larry O joined me for awhile, but couldn’t stay long.  After Larry left,  I found Beauty up on top of the Xerox Bldg on the NW corner.  I then followed her over to the Jail Comm Tower for the 2nd time.  She had gone over there earlier after hunting over mid-town.

At 10:30 am, Beauty took off heading north.  I followed, but was unable to find her.

I ended up back on the Broad St Bridge and Dana joined me there.  Neither of us were able to find out where Beauty had gone to.  At noon I checked out the BS location, but could not find Pigott there.  Kathy O and Joyce joined me there.

At 2:00 pm, I decided to head home, stopping at KP on the way.  The juvie Red-tailed Hawk was hunting there, but I did not see any falcons.

Earlier at 1:30 pm, Joyce texted that she and Brian H had located Beauty on the Frontier Communication Tower.

So, yesterday evening we had Pigott and no Beauty and today (Saturday) we had Beauty and no Pigott.  Hopefully we’ll see both of them on Sunday!  🙂

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Temps started at 27 degrees this morning, but it got up into the mid-40’s during the day.  The big difference?  Sun!  Glorious Sun!

Beauty was reported being seen first by Debbie H.  Here is her tweet sent at 8:20 am – “Good Morning. Beauty on Jail Tower. Saw her chasing pigeons!”

Here is Brian H’s report from 2:40 pm – “B is standing regally atop Mercury’s raised hand. Coop was chasing pigeons around Monroe and Alexander.”

I was able to start my Watch at 3:45 pm, first checking out the KP area, where I found no Peregrine Falcons.  But I did find a hunting juvenile Red-tailed Hawk.  I could tell it was a juvenile because the tail had not turned the beautiful red that they get when they are adults.  This young hawk was on top of one of the telephone poles near the road.  As I was texting, the RTH took off and dropped into the field in front of me.  It wasn’t long before he launched himself out of the field and flew right towards me holding a small rodent, mouse, mole vole?  I couldn’t believe it when the hawk landed on a light pole very close to where I was parked!  He very quickly ate his meal and then stood up straight and immediately went back into hunt mode. I zoomed way in on the last pic to check the hawks legs.   This one was not banded.  It was an adult I saw that had a band on one leg.  This may have been her kid.  🙂

I arrived downtown at around 4:15 pm.  I looked all over and finally found Beauty on the back side of the Jail Comm Tower.  I could not see her from the Broad St Bridge.  For some reason my tweet reporting this did not make it to the forum.  In this picture, she had her back to me.

While I was trying to find Beauty, I noticed that her friends the Starlings were back on the Widows Walk.  I couldn’t help but think how cool it would be if they were all different colors.  Like birdy Christmas lights decorating the WW.  lol   I watched her for awhile, but because I was quickly losing light, I decided to check on the BS location to see if Pigott was home.

The Crows were in full force, swarming in from the south and heading towards downtown Rochester.  I could not find Pigott, but I noticed that some of the Crows bee-lined for the BS building and kind of dove down towards the roof of the building at the west end.  Quite a few Crows repeated this little maneuver.  I think I had my answer when finally, on my 3rd trip around the building, I found Pigott up on a corner on the west side (5:10 pm).  Most of the Crows were gone and she finally felt secure enough to show herself.  Or she came in after they left.  I couldn’t be sure.

Here is a picture of a very small sliver of a moon, from the BS location.  The second picture is one from the Ford St Bridge, on my trip back downtown to check on Beauty one more time.  If you look carefully, you can see lots of Crows in the sky beyond the bridge.

By the time I arrived back downtown it was totally dark (5:30 pm).  Beauty was gone from the Jail Comm Tower.  I checked the best I could, but could not find her anywhere.  Had she gone up into the OCSR elevator shaft?  Way too dark to tell.  After checking the Rfalconcam pics, I discovered that after I left Beauty on the Jail Comm Tower, she went to the Mercury statue and landed on the money bag hand.  She was there from 4:39 to 5:07 pm.

Before I headed home, I took a few pics of Rochester at night that I’ll leave you with.  I was very happy to see both Beauty and Pigott doing well.

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Oh!  One more thing!  I finally got an ok video showing just a little bit of the Crows we are seeing going into the city.  Quite amazing!  Just click on this link.

http://youtu.be/H1qtw-8KgNA

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Another cold day with temps in the 40’s during the day and cloudy.

My first stop KP (3:45 pm).  I checked out the area and found a Kestrel diving on something in a tree in the field in front of me.  Not sure what it was, maybe the Red-tail Hawk that hangs out there?  Oh, and by the way, I do believe that one of the Red-tail Hawks has a band on one leg.  Might be interesting to find out where s/he was banded if we can get the #’s and report them.

Next stop downtown (4:15 pm).  From the Andrews St Bridge, I saw no falcons on KO, FCT or the north side of OCSR, but there were a whole lot of Starlings on the Mercury statue.  My first clue that Beauty wasn’t nearby.  lol

After checking out the whole downtown area and having no luck finding any falcons, I parked on the Broad St Bridge and saw that Beauty had replaced the Starlings on the Mercury statue.  She was on the money bag hand.

From down at Aqueduct St, I had a better view of Beauty who, as usual was facing NW, checking everything out.  The light was already fading and it was cold, but she didn’t seem to be as poofy as she had been last night.  I had to play around with the brightness/contrast on my picture due to the lack of lighting.

So, where did all the Starlings go you ask?  As I was pulling out of the parking lot to check out the BS location that question was answered.  They had all moved over to the Widows Walk after Beauty chased them off!

OK, on to the BS location to check on Pigott.  She was really easy to find.  There was a falcon on the front of the building, north side, that I believe was Pigott.  It was impossible to get a positive ID.  It was getting dark and again the sky was full of large, cawing black birds aka Crows heading north towards the city.  She was watching them intently.

Again, I had no sighting of either Dot.ca or KPF today.  I will continue to watch out for them and report if I see them.

Beauty and Pigott continue to remain in their own territories.

Before heading home, I decided to go over to the Strong Museum to watch the Crows come in.  Brian H, who was interviewed today for the news suggested this spot as a good place to watch from.  He was right!  From there, I could see waves of Crows fly in from all over, swirling in large groups before settling in trees all over the city.  Because it was dark, I set my camera to full automatic and this is the picture that came out.  Looks like the sky is blue, but believe me, it was full dark.  Crazy what your camera will do.  🙂

These trees are full of cawing and rattling Crows.  It sounded and looked like they were all having a great time.  lol

The weather people say we will get some sun over the next few days.  I hope they’re right!  Sun would be really nice right now.  🙂

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By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

It was a cold and cloudy day today in Rochester, NY.  The temperature never made it out of the 30’s.  Brrrrr.  Since the end of Daylight Savings Time, my evening Watches have been very short.  By 5:00 pm, it gets dark and I head home.  I wanted to check all 3 Peregrine locations, so I had to be quick.

I arrived at Kodak Park to check on KPF at 3:45 pm.  I looked everywhere and was unable to find any falcons.  It has been awhile since she has been seen, so I’m starting to believe that she may have migrated.  If she has, I truly hope she returns next year.  But, I haven’t given up hope of seeing her, so I’ll keep looking.

At 4:10 pm, I was downtown and from the Andrew St Bridge I could see a falcon on the money bag hand of the Mercury statue.  I drove over to the Broad St Bridge and then down to Aqueduct St., where I parked in my normal spot.  From here I could see that it was Beauty.  She was all poofed up from the cold, looking everywhere.  There was a large flock of Starlings flying in tandem and landing below her.  She watched them intently as they all flew into the vines on the building and then off again.  It looked like they were maybe getting food of some sort out of the vines?  They flew off and Beauty remained, continuing to look everywhere.

I checked out the downtown area and could not find Dot.ca.  This is his first year here in Rochester, so we don’t know what he normally does during the Winter months.  Our Tiercels (males) have all migrated, does Dot.ca also migrate?  We’ll keep looking for him.

It was starting to get dark, so I had to get going.  One more location to check out, the BS location.  I arrived there at about 4:50 pm.  I found a falcon on the south side of the building.  A falcon surrounded on all sides by 1,000’s of Crows and they weren’t being quiet about it.  I parked my car and checked out the falcon, trying to determine if it was Pigott or maybe DC.  But, it was too dark to be sure.  I assumed it was Pigott, since Dot.ca has not been seen for a few days.

Seeing and hearing all of these Crows is amazing.  We believe that this is one of their staging areas, where they gather before heading downtown.  By 5:10 pm, 90% of them were gone, flying north towards the city.  An incredible sight!

During all of this, Pigott remained quietly on the building, just watching.  By this time it was dark and just as I was getting ready to leave, Pigott flew off, stooping towards the east.  She then flew back to the building and landed on the west side, near the cubby hole.

Just one more thing before I sign off.  Here is a video of Beauty I took on Sunday morning as she prepped her breakfast on the base of Mercury.  This is what we mean by “Feathers Flying!”  Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/UUuMlcQmLBI

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

I want to start my report by saying thanks to all the Veterans for their service.  While downtown this morning, I was able to attend the Veteran’s Day Ceremony at the War Memorial.  I’m  really glad that I was there to see it.

Yesterday, I could not find Beauty, but I did find Pigott at the BS location.  I spent a couple hours watching her.  No sign of Dot.ca.  Pigott only flew once during the time I was there.  I could tell she had eaten before I got there, she had a very large crop.  Kathy O reported seeing Beauty on the Frontier Communication Tower later that evening.

Today (11/11/12), was a gorgeous  day, with temperatures close to 70 degrees (F).  I decided to get out early.  Sun was promised for most of the day, but it turned out to be mostly cloudy on this Veteran’s day.  No way was I going to complain.  The warm temperatures were very welcome!

Just after I arrived on the Broad St. Bridge, a little after 8 am, Beauty brought in breakfast, landing on the base of the Mercury statue.  She sat there for awhile, just looking around, before she finally started to prep her meal.  Feathers rained down everywhere.  After checking out some of the feathers that landed near me, I decided that her meal this morning was Pigeon.  She remained on Mercury’s base eating for an hour and 4o mins.  At 9:40 am, she tucked what remained of the meal under Mercury’s foot at the base of the statue.  Beauty then flew to the west end of the top IBeam on the OCSR, south side.  She then walked around to the north side.

While she was eating, I walked over to Aqueduct Park, which is on the north side of the Mercury statue.  From there I could see that there was a very large pile of wood up against the Main St Bridge.  Looks like the city will have to do another clean-up.

Here are some pictures of the area I took while walking around this morning.

I drove over to the Andrew St Bridge and found Beauty on the top IBeam, where she had walked around the corner.  After watching her doze for a while, I decided to go check on Pigott at the BS location.  I had no luck finding her, so I headed back downtown.  On the way, I stopped at the Cornhill area along the river to view the city from the south.  Here is a picture I took.  Gives you a whole different perspective.

I went in search of Beauty again and found her on the Frontier Communication Tower (FCT).  She was on the NE box below the platform.  That’s where she remained most of the day.  Both Brian and Joyce reported seeing her there after I left.

As I left the downtown area, I decided to stop at the pedestrian bridge to check things out.  Here are a few pictures I took at High Falls and the Genesee Brewery.

I do love the High Falls area.  It was nice to see the old and the new sights.  During the day, I checked at KP twice with no luck finding KPF.  Later today, Joyce & Kathy O saw Pigott over at the BS location.  No sightings of Dot.ca by any of the Watchers.

I thoroughly enjoyed being out and about today.  It was like a breath of fresh air being able to roll down my windows while driving around.  I went on other adventures today, but that’s for another time.  🙂  With Winter coming, I just had to get out and enjoy the day and Watch the Rochester Falcons!

This last picture is for my very good friend Dale.  When I saw these little sparrows taking a bath in a puddle over at city hall I just couldn’t resist taking their picture.  This one I just knew Dale would love.   There was so much sadness after losing our friend Anne, I decided we needed a laugh.  🙂  REMEMBER TO CLICK ON A PICTURE FOR A LARGER VIEW.

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Still no KPF at KP.  The Watchers will be keeping an eye out for her.  Maybe she has migrated.

I only stayed downtown for about an hour tonight.  It was very cloudy and by 5:00 pm, it was already getting dark.  My first stop was the Andrews St Bridge.  From there, I could see a falcon on Mercury’s money bag hand.  That was 3 nights in a row.  I thought it might be Beauty again, but after checking out the area, I found a 2nd falcon on the Frontier Communication Tower (FCT) underneath the platform on the SE corner box.  I took a quick pic of this falcon and then went to take a picture of the one on Mercury.  Of course that falcon was gone.

I am fairly certain that the falcon I saw on Mercury was Dot.ca and the falcon on the FCT was Beauty.

First I drove all over the downtown area and could not find where Dot.ca went and since I didn’t see him take off, I don’t know what direction he headed in.  Having no luck finding Dot.ca, I drove over to City Hall for a closer look at Beauty on FCT.

At a little after 4:00 pm Joyce had texted that she was over at the BS location and reported the following “At BS again.  No falcons here, but trees filling up with Crows before they continue to their roost.”

Crows were streaming into the downtown area, but they seemed to be staying west of the FCT.  There were 1,000s of them.  None came in to investigate Beauty while I was there.

She remained in the same spot until about 5 pm, when I was getting ready to leave.  Of course.  lol  Beauty took off, stooping to the west.  I lost sight of her pretty quickly, but she returned to the FCT and landed on the SE corner of the platform.  Again she settled down, so I decided to head home.

Here are some pictures from my evening watch.  Remember to click on the picture if you’d like to see a larger version.

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

For the 2nd evening in a row, Beauty was up on the upthrust money bag hand of the Mercury statue.  I spotted her from the Andrew St Bridge.  Next stop Aqueduct St. aka the hole.  That vantage point would give me a good view with what was left of the sun behind me.  I parked in the same spot I parked in last night.  While I was taking pictures, I heard a familiar voice yelling my name.  Joyce had joined me.  We chatted for a little while, before Joyce decided to check out the BS location, while I remained downtown with Beauty.  We didn’t have long before dark and this way we could cover both locations.  I had checked Kodak Park a couple times today with no luck finding KPF.

After awhile, Joyce texted that she had spotted Pigott, but not Dot.ca.  Wonder where he was tonight.  Probably somewhere nearby.  We were just missing seeing him.

There was one thing missing this evening, well 1,000’s actually.  Not one Crow passed overhead while I was there.  Joyce reported that there were lots of Crows out at the BS location heading towards downtown from the south.  Where were the Crows I saw last night that came in from the West.  Maybe they were late and I missed seeing them.  Interesting.

There isn’t much more to report.  The whole time I was there, Beauty remained on the Mercury statue, preening, stretching and pooping.  Doing what Peregrines do.  🙂

I wanted to see where she went after dark and I wasn’t disappointed.  It was already dark at 5:2o pm.  That’s when she took off heading north.  I watched her as she flew towards the OCSR and directly up into the elevator shaft on the east side of the building.  I had wondered if that was where she went last night too.  I’m not sure if she is staying in there overnight or if she’s caching food up there like Mariah and Kaver used to do.  This was the 3rd time I’ve seen Beauty go up there in the past week.  Note to Watchers:  If you can’t find Beauty, check the elevator shaft.

Here area a few pictures from this evening.  Remember to click on the picture if you’d like to see it in a larger format.

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Now that Daylight Savings Time has ended, it’s lighter earlier in the morning, but gets dark muck quicker at night.  I used to have until between 6 and 6:30pm before it got dark.  Now it’s getting dark between 5 and 5:30 pm.  Oh, well, I have to make due with the time I have.  I first checked out Kodak Park to see if I could find KPF.  I looked at both sides of the building and could not find her anywhere.  I had checked early this morning and during the afternoon and did not see any falcons.  Just a Red-tail Hawk and a bunch of panicky pigeons.  I decided to check on Beauty and the downtown area next.

Nothing at Kodak Office or the Frontier Communication Tower (FCT) or the OCSR or Times Square Bldg (TSB) or Jail Comm Tower.  Where could the falcons be.  Just I settled on the Broad St Bridge (BSB), I saw a falcon fly out from behind the TSB, heading very quickly towards the Cornhill area, south of the TSB.  I lost sight of that falcon and started looking around the area.  A falcon flew towards the FCT and looked like it was going to land on the OCSR.  At the last second the falcon veered off and headed towards the Mercury statue, landing on the money bag hand of the outstretched arm.  I quickly texted that out just in case other Watchers were out and about.

I wasn’t at the best angle, so I drove down to Aqueduct St (aka the hole) and parked my car where I had a decent view of Beauty and the Mercury statue.  She had her back to me, but this would have to do.  I was already losing light and it was very, very cold.  I wasn’t dressed properly for the conditions, having come straight from work.  I took turns getting out of my car for a few moments of picture taking and then jumping back in to warm up.  For the hour or so I was there, Beauty remained on Mercury, until I left at 5:15 pm.

During that time, 1,000’s of Crows were streaming into the downtown area from the west.  They passed over the TSB and Beauty and I.  Cawing loudly to announce their arrival, as Crows do.  They are not shy.  Interestingly, I noticed that about a half dozen of them broke ranks and bee-lined for a closer look at Beauty who just watched them from her perch.  They didn’t come too close (smart Crows), just a bit of a look see.  Now if Beauty had been a Red-tail Hawk, they would have probably swarmed her.

I have rarely seen Crows outright attack an adult Peregrine Falcon.  Once when I was watching Mariah, who was up on the Kodak Tower, about 6 Crows decided it would be fun to mouth off to her.  They landed on the catwalk of the north stack and looked up at her.  CAW CAW CAW!  Mariah would just give them her trade mark fierce look.  They would look a bit nervous and then start CAWING at her again.  This went on for about 5-10 minutes before Mariah had enough.  She took off from the top of the tower and stooped directly at the Crows who all took off in different directions.  She chased them out of the area and then resumed her spot on her tower where it was now quiet.  I had a good chuckle after witnessing that.  🙂

I have also witnessed them going after a young, newly fledged Peregrine and watched the adults chase the Crows away.

So, was it curiosity on the part of the Crows that they checked Beauty out?  Realizing that she was a Peregrine, did they decide it was better to just leave her alone?  More interesting behavior to consider.

For the remainder of the hour, as it got darker, Beauty remained on the Mercury statue.  I decided to leave at 5:15 pm and just as I was pulling out of the parking lot, Beauty took off and flew towards OCSR.  I looked on the south side and could not find her.  It almost looked like she either flew over to the south side or up into the elevator shaft.  I am starting to think that she might be spending more time up there.  It is a very sheltered spot that has been used by most of the Rochester Falcons over the years.

This was my view tonight.  Please click on the pictures if you would like to see a larger version.

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

It actually snowed in Rochester this morning!  It was cold, windy and snowing on and off, with just a little bit of sunshine mixed in.  I arrived at KP at 12:45 pm.  After searching the area, I couldn’t find any falcons.  It has been awhile since anyone has seen KPF and I’m starting to wonder if she might have migrated.  Only time will tell.  It’s hit or miss seeing her anyway, so my timing might just be off.  I’ll keep looking.  I was greeted by two Crows, a Kestrel, a Red-tail Hawk and a beautiful, Mockingbird.  He was in one of the trees near the parking lot we are allowed to use while checking out the KP area.  I do love Mockingbirds.  🙂  It was snowing and sleeting like crazy, when I first arrived, but finally stopped by the time left.

This morning I read Larry O’s texts that between 8:40 – 9:10 am he had both Beauty and Dot.ca downtown.  My next stop was downtown Rochester to look for our resident Pefas (Peregrine Falcons) Beauty and Dot.ca.  I checked all over the downtown area, but was unable to find any falcons.  At 2:00 pm, I decided to head over to the BS location to see if I could find Pigott.

I did find Pigott pretty quickly.  She was on the vent on the south side of the building and her crop was huge, evidence of a recent meal.  After about 1o minutes, I heard kakking and it wasn’t coming from Pigott.  Suddenly, Dot.ca arrived, landing on the SE corner of the building.  Kak kak kak kak!  Caw caw caw caw!  Crows were everywhere and they weren’t happy with Dot.ca.  We all know that DC does not like Crows, well evidently they do not like him either.  Have you ever heard the ratchety call a crow makes?  Not the normal CAW!  Well, I was hearing a lot of that as they flew over DC’s position.  Larry O joined me for awhile and then he left to check out the downtown area.

The woods to the south of  the building were filled with Crows and they made sure that everyone withing a 50 mile radius knew they were there.  Ok, maybe not 50 miles, but they sure were loud.  🙂

There are two apple trees just south of where I had parked my car, with a few apples left on them.  One tree had red apples and one had yellow apples.  The Crows decided that these remaining apples would make a nice late afternoon treat.  Several dozen Crows flew into the trees and started jumping on the branches, shaking them until quite a few of the apples dropped to the ground.  Other Crows had landed under the trees and looked up expectantly.  When an apple fell to the ground, 2 or 3 Crows would share it, taking turns taking bites of apple and swallowing it.  If the apple wouldn’t drop, the Crows in the tree would stand either on it or under it and eat the apple right there.  It was quite amazing to watch.

After awhile, the Crows got louder (if that was possible) and started to fly back towards the wooded area.  It was like something scared them.  I looked up at the building to see if either Pigott or Dot.ca had taken off, but they were still there, watching the activity below them.  Then I finally saw what was causing the mass exodus.  An absolutely gorgeous deer came strutting out of the woods towards the apple trees.  His antlered head held high, watching the 100’s of large black birds flying around him.  He made his way over to the dropped apples and one by one picked them up and chewed until he was able to swallow them.  I watched him eat about 5 or 6 apples before he turned around and went back into the woods.  Wow!  this was all new behavior to me.  I loved seeing this.

While I was watching the Crows and the deer, Pigott had taken off, flew past Dot.ca and back to the opposite end of the vent.  That was the only flying I got to see today.  It was then that I noticed that her whole lower front was covered in blood, more evidence of her recent meal.  Don’t worry, it was the prey’s blood, not hers.  She was fine.  I’ve seen my share of this kind of thing.  Bibs would be good.  🙂  At 3:2o pm, Larry texted that he had Beauty on the Mercury statue downtown.  Well, I really wanted to see Beauty, so I decided to leave Pigott & Dot.ca to check on her.

So off to downtown I went.  My first stop was the Broad St Bridge to see if Beauty was still on the Mercury statue.  Well there were birds on the statue, but they weren’t Peregrine Falcons.  Mercury was covered by a dozen Starlings!  Could Larry have mistaken them for Beauty?  Hmmmm! (This is meant to be humorous.)

I drove further out onto the bridge and turned my car around so I was facing the Times Square Bldg.  There she was!  Up on the base of the SE wing with her back to me.  I went down to Aqueduct St where I would have a better view.  Beauty was all poofed out against the very cold air and her head was tucked under her wing.  She was dozing up there.

I stayed for a little while, watching the sleeping Beauty.  All was peaceful here, so I decided to call it a day.

On my way home, I drove through KP one last time and again had no luck finding any falcons.

It was time to go home and warm up!

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