Dawn and Bullet joined me for a Falcon Watch today. When I arrived a little after 1:00 pm, dark clouds were moving in. We were sitting in our cars on Broad St, next to HSBC. From 1:30 till about 2:10, it was pouring rain and the winds were gusting. During that time, Archer flew around Midtown a couple of times, finally settling on top of Xerox.

Approximately 2:10 pm, it finally stopped raining, so we were able to get out for a bit. We walked over to the other side of Broad St, where we had a nice view of Archer on Xerox and a view of the east side ledge of Midtown Plaza.

At 2:20 pm, Archer flew down to the Midtown ledge and Beauty finally popped up. 

Archer took Beauty’s place, incubating the eggs which must surely be up behind that ledge. Beauty flew over us, swooped down the east side of HSBC, back over us and finally settled on the NE corner of the Columbus Bldg. It started to rain again, so we ducked inside one of the bus shelters.

This was the first changing of the guard that I’ve witnessed. I do believe that other Watchers have witnessed this also.

So, will we have hatches at the end of May or later? It’s going to be an interesting year.

Beauty was still on the NE corner of the Columbus Bldg when I left around 3 pm.

Carol P.

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