By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Today I first found Beauty on the 2nd arm of the Frontier Communications Tower. She was looking where else…north toward Kodak Park.

Soon after she flew off  to the Times Square building when I arrived she was on top of the main camera.

Beauty didn’t stay there for long and flew off giving me a nice show high above Times Square. When she was through she landed under the northeast wing . I had mistakenly tweeted southeast. OOPS!

Next Beauty made a flight  around the area and went to the nestbox. I could hear echupping and the next thing I knew Archer flew into view and very fast departed flying north behind the Crossroads building. He returned a couple minutes later with prey landed under the southeast wing and started plucking the feathers away. I could see the top part of Beauty up on the deck as she waited for her breakfast to be prepared.

I took video of him at this point and then somehow I hit the button and it stopped taping. When I resumed Beauty had already flown up there and the next video was of her after she grabbed it from him. Links will be at the end of this report as they are uploading right now. After Beauty took the prey Archer flew left and flew north. She began eating.

A fan of our falcons named Mary whom I met one other morning stopped by to chat and she had 2 other people with her that also watch on the forum. Forgive me for not remembering their names but they all work in the Thomson Reuters building. When the Beautyful one was done eating she flew down to the nestbox once again making quite a racket. Archer flew into view and circled Times Square before exiting once more. Beauty left and returned giving me another great aerial display high above the Wilder building out over the river and above the Times Square building before she landed under the southeast wing again.

DebbieH stopped by to get the scoop and after she left for work I stayed with Beauty until it was time to go home for breakfast. What a fantastic watch I had this morning . 🙂

More photos here:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/sharing/shareRedirectSwitchBoard.jsp?token=500719442213%3A1562781309&sourceId=533754321803&cm_mmc=eMail-_-Share-_-Photos-_-Sharer

Video link 1 here:

http://youtu.be/NDw4B9rJjAc

Video link 2 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEDeJE-uPn8

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