By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Beauty was in the nestbox on the eggs when I checked the cams before leaving home. I arrived downtown to see Dan in his lawn chair on the south side of the Broad St. bridge with a few drops of rain falling from the sky. I got my chair out and he said you have to put that big blue umbrella of yours back in the truck! I pulled it out and got a big smile out of him. It didn’t spritz for long and about an hour  into our watch Archer came streaking across the river from the east. While we watched him we didn’t notice Beauty had come out of the nestbox to join him and when they started flying together circling the Times Square building we wondered what was going on. Beauty landed under the northeast wing and Archer landed on the ring at the very top of the west wing on the Times Square building.

I’ve never seen ANY bird land up there before today. They suddenly stooped in tandem down the back of  Times Square and we couldn’t see what they were after but we were sure it wasn’t a meal. It was probably a crow or hawk come too close to their precious eggs. They re-surfaced from behind Times Square with Beauty chasing Archer over the Democrat and Chronicle and Hall of Justice buildings only to break it off and return to the nestbox. We don’t know where Archer went off to at that time. 10 minutes later Beauty flew out behind the OCSR over the river back behind the Radisson Hotel and back to the nestbox. Not sure why, probably chasing off a hawk or something. Soon after Archer relieved Beauty on the eggs and she flew over to the heel of Mercury to preen for awhile.

Beauty flew off to the northwest and Dan left so I went for a ride to find her. Quite awhile later I spotted the Beautyful one on the top ibeam OCSR at the west corner.

Beauty preened there for a good 15 minutes then flew over to the Times Square building landing under the northeast wing.

She eventually flew down to the nestbox to switch with Archer on the eggs. He flew east leaving the area and I decided it was time to get home for some breakfast ending my watch. 🙂

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