Morning watch 3-1-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
The sun rose and shone bright for about 20 minutes and then the sky went overcast with a temperature of 16 (F) -9 (C) and very little wind
It was a half hour into my watch before Beauty showed herself this morning. On my second trip to the east side I spotted her eating on the north side of Bausch & Lomb (B&L).
About 5 minutes later she stopped eating and was looking around-I thought perhaps she saw Dot.Ca (DC). I was parked in my spot on Broad St. between Midtown and Xerox and could see the Times Square building (TSB) so I grabbed my binocs and sure enough DC was under the northeast wing.
After a couple minutes Beauty got back to work on her breakfast, and let me tell you the feathers were a flying everywhere!
I expected DC to fly over and join her but he never did while I was watching. I left them to it and headed to the Brighton site (BS) arriving there around 8:10am to find 8 wild turkeys picking at the grass and running around.
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Next I found Pigott who was also letting the feathers fly as she was eating too up on the northeast corner of the northeast extension.
I stayed with her only a brief time as I had to make it another quick watch. I returned to downtown to find that DC was gone from the TSB. Beauty was on the base of Mercury as Shaky (TY) had tweeted and she was eating.
The Beautyful one decided she had enough and took her leftovers up on the green base of Mercury for safe keeping.
She then proceeded to do some feaking and cleaned herself up. She turned around and back, had a look to make sure the coast was clear before flying off to the north.
I drove over to the Radisson Hotel at Main St. to check the OCSR elevator shaft and found DC on the south side ledge and Beauty on the top ibeam north corner of OCSR.
It was a short but sweet watch as I saw all 3 Rochester Peregrine Falcons and the 2 girls had a nice meal too! Left downtown at 8:44am ending my watch with a smile! 🙂
Click on the links below to see my photo album and 4 videos from todays watch
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http://youtu.be/o84vNvUdErc
http://youtu.be/5CaJwPEFpfo
http://youtu.be/z04qW6_iPOw
http://youtu.be/4QIvf2G5NPc
