By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Good day to everyone!

Dan was on the Broad St. bridge when I arrived at 6:05am this morning. I had spotted Beauty on the base of Mercury as I drove through the intersection at Exchange and Broad streets. Just as I got out of the truck to join Dan she flew off to the east and out of sight. Dan left at 7:00am and I decided to go look for the Beautyful one. I found her on the southeast corner of the HSBC building looking lovely in the morning sunlight.

She was in hunt mode looking around for prey. She flew off in a half stoop toward Xerox and I followed to find her on the base of Mercury eating.

Beauty flew off as soon as she was done eating headed northwest and ended up landing under the northeast wing of the Times Square building.

BrianH and LarryO with his dog Cleo showed up to join me as Beauty and Archer switched on the eggs. Archer flew to the base of Mercury very briefly and took off heading north. Larry left and I gave Brian a ride home before heading home for a breakfast break.

Bobbie from Ireland called to say she would be on the Broad St. bridge at 11:30am to say goodbye as she will be leaving Rochester on Monday to go to her nieces’ in New Jersey until Thursday when she leaves for her home in Ireland. I got there about 11:00am with Dan coming shortly thereafter. Less than 5 minutes after Bobbie arrived we had 2 falcons flying over the river. Beauty was kakking up a storm at Archer. She flew to the nestbox and he went after 2 crows around the back of the Thomson Reuters building. He came to rest under the southeast wing of the Times Square building.

KathyO arrived in time to see Archer go after a Turkey Vulture that was flying over the river quite non-chalantly as TVs do. He didn’t come in contact but just escorted it out of his territory. I told Kathy and Bobbie it was Dans’ birthday and we broke into singing the birthday song to him. He probably wished he had a chance to turn his hearing aids off! lol  As Bobbie was leaving Archer flew back under the southeast wing on Times Square. BrianH joined the watch as Dan left. Archer stayed on Times Square for an hour before flying straight down the face of the building after something we couldn’t see. Brian walked down to the stairs where we call falcon watcher central to find Archer on the fire escape ladder of the Wilder building. We all decided to go home ending this watch.  🙂

For more pics of the day here’s the link to my album.  http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/sharing/shareRedirectSwitchBoard.jsp?token=782091822213%3A50732737&sourceId=533754321803&cm_mmc=eMail-_-Share-_-Photos-_-Sharee

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