Morning watch 3-14-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
What blizzard-we had a blizzard here? Mostly clear main roads this morning with a starting temperature of 25 (F) -4 (C) overcast with a southerly breeze-forecast says a high in the 40’s today
I found Dot.Ca (DC) on the top ibeam southeast side of OCSR at 7:10am as he was eating his breakfast. I didn’t see Beauty in the near vicinity.
I left him to it as I went searching for Beauty. As I returned to the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) DC was gone from OCSR. I found Beauty under the northeast wing of the Times Square building (TSB) with her back to me, but at the time I thought it was DC. Once again her salmon color helps in identifying her.
I stayed a while then left to check the Brighton site (BS). Arriving there about 8:15am I found a Canadian Goose on the southeast corner of the east extension-not exactly the falcon I was hoping to find. A minute later a crow came by landing below the goose, who had a lot to say to the crow. The crow moved in on the ledge out of view and came back out with some cached food that most likely belonged to Pigott and flew off with it. He dropped it just before landing on a pine tree and had to go to the ground for it, he took one bite and left it in the snow.
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So that was my entertainment at BS today. Upon returning downtown I found the Beautyful one still under the northeast wing of Times Square with her back to the world so I continued on to look for DC. From the Andrews St. bridge I spotted him on the northeast corner of the Kodak Office launchpad. I drove to State St. and checked him out. His crop was full from the meal he had eaten earlier on OCSR.
I made one last check of Beauty on Times Square before calling it a watch just before the 9 o’clock hour-she still had her back to me.
Keep smiling everyone! 🙂
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March 15th, 2014 at 9:12 AM
Nice pictures and narrative! So glad the blizzard has passed.
March 15th, 2014 at 9:39 AM
Thanks for commenting Nora. I liked the blizzard but I’m ready for the snow to melt get and out of the way on the roads downtown. 🙂