By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Roads were greasy this morning as we got a couple inches of snow over nite. With a temperature of 23 (F) -5 (C) and calm overcast conditions and light snow to start-the wind picked up during my watch and as I made my way home the snow picked up as well

My first sighting of a falcon was around 7:20am when I spotted one flying near Bausch & Lomb from the Broad St. bridge. I drove over to the east side of the river and from Woodbury St. near the Geva Theater I could see a falcon  on the southeast corner of HSBC.

For a closer view I parked on Court St. below HSBC and took a couple pics and judging by the salmon color I saw, this was Beauty.

I then drove out further for a better angle, parking on Chestnut St. in front of Martin Luther King Park (formerly known as Manhattan Square Park).

I stayed with the Beautyful one until she flew off around 7:45am. She circled above HSBC then drifted to the east out of sight in the murky sky. I took a ride around downtown but didn’t find any falcons so I struck out for the Brighton Site (BS). The traffic was backed up along the whole route, so it took me 20 minutes instead of 5 to get there. Arriving at 8:30am I found a falcon on an east facing window 2nd level down on the northeast extension.

Due to the very white neck I believe this is Dot.Ca but I couldn’t be certain. I never got a good enough look at the malar stripe area to make a determination.

It was obvious it was hunkered down and wasn’t going to show me anything but its back so I didn’t stay long.  When I returned to downtown I wasn’t able to locate any falcons so I called it a watch as the snow was starting to intensify at 9:30am. I wish I had found all 3 Rochester Peregrine Falcons to know they’re all safe but you can’t always get what you want eh?! Keep smiling everyone! 🙂

Click on the links below to see a couple videos of Beauty

http://youtu.be/_7b5O2-JvdY

http://youtu.be/TebWlFjXw_0

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