By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

I thought I’d combine my watches from yesterday and today. I haven’t seen too much action nor have I seen Archer but I have spent a little time with the Beautyful one. Yesterday after making my rounds looking for our fine feathered friends I parked on the Broad St. bridge. As I was watching the nestbox suddenly a falcon flew up and landed next to the main camera. I found out later that it was Beauty and she left soon after flying to the OCSR building. She preened and occasionally looked to the north I assume in anticipation of Archers’ arrival for their morning bonding ritual.

She stayed there for the remainder of my watch.

This morning after checking around town I parked on the Broad St. bridge waiting and watching for a falcon to show up with no success. My time was getting short so I decided to drive over to city hall and have a close look at the Frontier Communications tower. It turned out to be a good call for I found Beauty under the platform on the northeast side. The next 2 pics were taken from Fitzhugh St. in front of the sister cities parking garage.

I then drove over to the city hall parking lot and spent the rest of my watch with Beauty until I had to leave for home.

TGIF for tomorrow and Sunday I  can stay out longer and hopefully have some more action to report. Have a great day everyone! 🙂

By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Well folks I thought I’d fool Beauty and Archer this morning by getting downtown earlier at 5:15am so I could catch them up in the nestbox. WRONG! I swear they are messing with me cuz they were later than usual to show up in there.

Anyway, here is the scoop. ‘Twas very dark this morning because of cloud cover from some rain coming into our area. I drove around checking all the usual spots without finding a falcon and so I just parked it on the Broad St. bridge. Finally about 5:50am a falcon appeared on the base of Mercury. Being so dark out with the street lights still on and showing only it’s back I wasn’t sure who it was.

Just before it took off it turned and then I knew it was the Beautyful one!

I didn’t see where she went so I took off to check the FCT because that has been the routine lately. As per usual she and Archer met in the nestbox while I was gone as reported to me by Donna.  I was on my way back to the Times Square area when I got her tweet and as I drove through the intersection at Broad and Exchange streets I spotted Archer on top of the fire escape ladder on the Wilder building. Well wasn’t that a quick bonding encounter? Probably sensed that MAK was on her way!  lol I quickly turned around on the bridge and looked to see if Beauty was visible in the nestbox(she wasn’t) before driving down to Aqueduct St. for a closer view of Archer.

Again, it was really dark this morning so please forgive the quality of my pics. I got to spend about 10 minutes with him before I had to head for home. Oh, the games falcons play! Have a great day! 🙂

By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

So I checked the cams at 5:25am before leaving the house for my watch…nobody in the nestbox. It takes 7 or 8 minutes to get downtown from my house. I check the nestbox upon arriving on the Broad St. bridge, no falcons. I check the archive viewer after I get home from my watch to find out both Beauty and Archer were in there while I was in transit! They are such little sneaks and are messing with old MAK almost on a daily basis now.  I do hope they’re enjoying themselves!!! lol

Anyway, I drove around the east side searching in the semi-darkness with no success until I came back to the bridge and spotted a falcon on the FCT. I barely got over there before she was off and flying south in the general direction of Times Square.  I waited half a minute to see if she came back and when she didn’t I drove back to the bridge where again I spotted a falcon on the FCT! She had sent me on a wild falcon chase!!! Back to the city hall parking lot I went where she sat still for maybe 4 minutes. The Beautyful one then half flew/half jumped  up to the bottom arm.

Notice the white feather spot on the right wing…yet another way for her and Archer to fool me. As a matter of  fact maybe this is Archer, oh I’m so confused!  They don’t play fair especially since I don’t have any coffee  until I get home from my watches!!  After 10 minutes she/he moved over to the platform railing near the northwest corner(Plymouth Ave. side).

Leaving the city hall parking lot to go over to park on Plymouth Ave. and be closer I barely got a shot off when it flew off to the north. I lost sight of it and with just a couple minutes before I had to leave I drove over to see if it went to Kodak Office. No such luck and so I ended my watch and went home. Until next time keep your eyes to the sky everyone!  🙂

By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

We start a new month today as the summer continues to fly by with some pretty crazy looking skies in Rochester this morning.

Beauty and Archer were up in the nestbox just a couple of minutes before I arrived this morning for my watch.  As the days get shorter and I go downtown later my watches too are getting shorter. After driving around our fair city for about 30 minutes Beauty finally showed herself. She was on the east side railing of the platform on the Frontier Communications Tower when I spotted her from the Broad St. bridge.  I drove over to City Hall to get up close and personal.

I spent 15-20 minutes with the Beautyful one before I had to end my watch and get the truck home. I’ll end this report with some more pics of the morning. Have a great day and remember to keep your eyes to the sky, you never know what you’ll see!  🙂