By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Todays starting temp was 49 (F) 9 (C) with partly to mostly cloudy skies-a heavy misty rain started toward the end of my watch

I started my watch with  Beauty on HSBC right off the bat at 6:35am on her favorite corner the southeast one. I parked below her on Court St. until she flew around to the northwest corner. The takeoff shot was out of focus so I gave it some pizazz. She took off to the west from the northwest corner seconds after I got parked on Chestnut St. near the Hotel Cadillac.

I spotted the Beautyful one over on the 2nd arm of the Frontier Communications Tower from the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) so I drove over to City Hall. She was facing west so I drove behind the church and parked next to the Open Door Mission at the end of Montgomery Alley to face her.

Beauty was in hunt mode and after a while she fly/hopped to the inside of the arm most likely trying to not be seen by prey birds.

After only a few minutes she flew southwest out of view. The next sequence of pics are of Beauty flying off and away from the FCT arm.

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I drove down to Hawkeye arriving around 7:30am after Beauty left but the juvie wasn’t around. I hung out about 10 minutes or so then returned to downtown. As I was checking out FCT I got  a tweet from fellow falcon watcher and forum member Pat-she saw a falcon on the base of Mercury. I left immediately and as I pulled onto Bank Place I could see a PEFA peeking up from the base of Mercury.

It was Dot.Ca (DC) and after a few minutes I went up to the BSB to observe him. To my surprise Beauty was up there on the base of Mercury too on the northeast corner where she couldn’t be seen from the hole. DC was on the green part of the base by the foot and blending in very well-so well that I almost didn’t notice him. As I found out later Pat had seen Beauty from Graves St. near Aqueduct Park but she couldn’t see DC from there.

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It was a good thing I went up on the bridge or I would have never known Beauty was up there with her mate. They were both facing the nest box and I thought they might fly over to the Times Square building and do some bonding on camera for all you folks at home to see but they had other things on their minds. Beauty flew off to the east over the river and when I looked back DC was gone as well, but a few seconds later I spotted DC flying from the east across the river and over the Thomson Reuters building west out of view. I found him on the southwest corner of the Wilder building. DC was whining about something and flew off soon after I found him flying around the OCSR and vanishing to the north.

I checked at the Brighton site (BS)and found nothing around 9am. As I was driving down Mt. Hope I came across these 2 building murals. The 2nd one says-Let peace and peace and peace be everywhere! I’m all for that!!!

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My return trip downtown and a 2nd visit to Hawkeye were both unsuccessful as a heavy misty rain started to fall when I left BS. I called it a watch around 9:30am smiling from ear to ear for having seen our dynamic duo on Mercury as just earlier in my watch I had thought to myself-I sure would like to see a falcon on Mercury again!  🙂

Click on the links below to see my pics and videos from todays watch

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWqip2

http://youtu.be/JVBY-CYZlHo
http://youtu.be/V4wU_JEF67A
http://youtu.be/DA_3lT2yJFk
http://youtu.be/zg6vbD0063Y

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