By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

What a beautiful morning with a starting temperature of 60 (F) 16 (C)-more like summer than spring.

As I made my way down Broad St. to begin my watch at 5:42am I came across a sign where Main St. meets Broad St. reminding me of the encounters I would have trying to watch our beloved falcons.

When I got to Exchange St. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Exchange Blvd. was not blocked off like yesterday so I could go down in the hole if I wanted to as they were shooting scenes down near East Ave. and Main St. today. I opted for parking on Exchange Blvd. in front of the Blue Cross Arena so I could see Dot.Ca (DC) arrive to relieve Beauty of her egg sitting duties.  As Beauty and I waited for him I watched our city cops hang out at every corner,2 camera trucks went speeding thru followed by various cars on flatbeds being hauled to Main St. including several NYPD cars and the sunrise shine on half of the Times Square building.

Finally at 6:47am I caught a glimpse of DC fly to the north side of the deck seeing only parts of his wings and then Beauty flew out and over to the base of Mercury.

I tweeted it out and then Ei reported the switch as well. Thanks! I then turned right onto Broad St. where I could see Mercury better. I watched the Beautyful one stretch and scratch for 15 minutes when she suddenly stooped off the back of Mercury down to the river and that would be the last I saw of her on this watch.

I went for a drive to see if I could find her but I had no luck and had quite a frustrating time of getting around all the road blocks and traffic. As I approached the corner of Broad and Exchange Blvd. I spotted DebbieH and so I pulled down Bank Place next to the Philipone building and got out to chat with her. We walked down to Main and State St. to check out Spiderman movie stuff but they were all up on the east side of the river. It was just before 8am and Deb had to get to work so I left for the Brighton site. 3 trips around the building and I didn’t see or hear any falcons. Back to downtown and still no sign of Beauty so I ended my watch at about 8:40am as I had to be somewhere. Not one of my better watches but I still left downtown with a smile on my face! 🙂

Just one link for a video today-click it to view

http://youtu.be/PJEcyFopmhs

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