Morning watch 5-11-11
By Rochester falcon watcher MAK
I had checked the cams before leaving to find Archer on the eggs. When I arrived on the Broad St. bridge Dan was there and said that one of them had flown from the nestbox area to Mercury and then headed northwest. Donna informed me that Archer was still on the eggs so we knew it was Beauty out and about. No action until after Dan left at 7:00am. I took a ride around the city without finding Beauty and came back to the bridge to wait. I saw a falcon fly to the nestbox and again I needed help. It was Archer who had briefly left and returned while I was out searching. Thank you Donna,Eileen and Bird Crazy for clueing me in on that tidbit of information! Half hour later I spotted Beauty up on the top ibeam west corner of the OCSR building. 10 minutes later she stooped down behind the Thomson Reuters building where I lost her only to see her re-surface and land on the base of Mercury with prey.
The Beautyful one worked on her meal for about 5 minutes and flew off. She circled around the top of the Times Square building a couple times then went over to OCSR parking on the rooftop west corner. She was facing north with her back to me as usual!
Beauty stayed there for 15 minutes looking around her territory and preening a bit. I was down on Aqueduct St. when she flew off and went to the nestbox to switch with Archer. I missed it as the Phillipone building blocked my view but as I was stepping backwards to get a look at the nestbox area Archer came into view right above me and flew over to Mercury landing on the heel.
In my first pic of him it seemed like he was waving to me with his foot up to scratch. lol Archer preened himself for 10 minutes before taking off heading north.
I figured he was going to Kodak so I left to ending my watch. 🙂
For more pics of Beauty and Archer follow this link.
