By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

When I left my house at 6:40am it was cold and windy but clear. As I arrived downtown it started snowing so instead of going to the Broad St. bridge I parked by Aqueduct Park and Main St. to have a better view up into the elevator shaft of the Old Changing Scenes Restaurant (OCSR) building. Beauty and Mr. T have been spending their nights there out of the elements. I pointed my trusty spotting scope and although it was too dark and snowing too hard to see up in there I did see one of them fly out to the top ibeam of the OCSR on the southeast side. I drove around the corner to Aqueduct St. to get a better angle for pics but the snowy and dark conditions made for very bad pics. Soon after both Beauty and Mr. T were on the top ibeam about 6 ft. apart. I could barely see them through the heavy snow that was coming down.

I decided to walk over to Subway to get breakfast and when I returned they were gone. I drove up and parked on the Broad St. bridge to have a look around while I ate. As I finished Dana came along to join the watch. I gave her the low down on things and said I’d drive to City Hall to check out the Frontier Communications Tower. Nobody there but before leaving I checked Kodak and lo and behold there I spotted the Beautyful one! I tweeted it out so Dana would know enough to join me and then headed over for a closer look and pics.

The snow ebbed and flowed and I finally called it quits after it started coming down too hard to see Beauty anymore. I said goodbye to Dana and left. Another watch in the books! 🙂

Here are a couple pics from yesterday.

Beauty on Mercury 2-18-11

The Beautyful one

Red-tailed Hawk at Kodak Park 2-18-11

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