Morning watch 3-8-11
By Rochester falcon watcher MAK
What a Beautyful sunny morning in Rochester,NY. My watch started at 6:15am and 10 minutes into it I witnessed Beauty flying in from the south. She landed on the money bag hand of Mercury.
I checked the sky to the south since that’s the general direction Beauty flew in from and sure enough I spotted Mr. T on the jail tower in the same spot as last Friday.
After about 10 minutes Beauty flew off Mercury stooping on pigeons over the river and Mr. T flew in from the jail tower to join her in the hunt. Neither one of them was successful and they flew to Mercury. Beauty landed on the outstretched money bag hand and Mr. T on the head.
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They stayed there for a few minutes and at the same time both stooped once again over the Broad St. Bridge and river near the Blue Cross Arena. Pigeons were scattering everywhere as they navigated back and forth flying up a bit only to gain speed to go down on their prey. At the flick of a wing they can pour on the speed. I truly am a lucky girl to witness these amazing creatures! As quickly as this took place it was over and they split up with one going to the jail tower and the other flying southeast and out of sight. I drove over to Troup St. closer to the jail tower to confirm that it was Mr. T.
He left as I looked away and so the search was on. LarryO and his dog Cleo stopped by on the Broad St. bridge for a minute to get the scoop on my watch and informed me that he hasn’t seen the Brighton pair in a week. After a couple trips around downtown I spotted Beauty on the Times Square building under the northeast wing.
It was time to get the truck home to Sue ending my watch. 🙂
