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Snowy morning watch 3-30-14

By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Well folks March is going out like a lion here in Rochester, NY with a snow storm that brought 8 inches of wet heavy snow last night, strong winds that produced drifting which made for a mess first thing this morning on area roads. The temperature when I left for my watch was 30 (F) -1 (C) with a fine light snow still falling throughout my watch

Arriving downtown just before 7am I didn’t find a falcon right away but saw lots of activity from road crews clearing snow on the roads and sidewalks.    Make sure to click on my pics to see the full version

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Finally about 7:30am Beauty showed up on the Wilder green strip-Aqueduct St. aka the hole had not been plowed as well as the parking lanes on the bridges so I parked down on Exchange Blvd. in front of the Philipone building across from Times Square.

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I shared space with the Beautyful one for 25 minutes before she spotted something and flew off heading south.

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I decided to take a chance that the Brighton site (BS) was plowed and headed over there at this time. It was a bad call for when I got there I couldn’t get past the plowed snow bank across the front of the entrance road and it hadn’t been plowed anyway. So I turned around and started back to downtown. Found this fool stuck in the medium-not a good choice to try a u-turn there.

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While I was gone Donna, Campgee and Annette reported Beauty and Dot.Ca (DC) had been to the nest box and a food exchange had been made. Thank you one and all! When I arrived on the Broad St. bridge at 8:30am I found  DC on the top ibeam of OCSR near the south corner.

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On my way over to the Radisson Hotel by Main St. to get closer to DC I came across Beauty on the Wilder green strip again.

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DC had turned around while I was en route so I had his back to me. He didn’t stay long before he flew over to the Wilder building.

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I drove back to Exchange Blvd. to watch our downtown duo. DC was on the back of the Wilder fire escape on a support rod and Beauty was still at the southeast end of the green strip.

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DC napped a little but Beauty seemed like she wanted some action so at 8:48am she flew over to the nest box while DC stayed put, chirping at her as she flew off. Thanks to Donna for letting me know Beauty went to the nest box, and as she put it, was plowing her scrape! lol

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5 minutes later Beauty must have decided DC wasn’t coming (I don’t think he likes the snow) and returned to the Wilder building, landing a few feet behind DC on the green strip.

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10 minutes passed as Beauty and DC didn’t seem like they were going anywhere and I wanted to get out of the way of a plow that was coming I decided to leave them and check BS again before ending my watch.

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When I arrived at BS the front driveway was plowed to the front of the building and mounded up into a tall snow bank-there was no way to get around it and the rest of the place wasn’t plowed anyway. The geese weren’t very happy about all the snow either. I passed a car on the way that was cleaned off but snow bound on the side of the street.

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I called it a watch at 9:30am happy to have been able to get out to see Beauty and DC which definitely put a smile on this falcon flakes face! 🙂

Click on the links below to view todays videos

http://youtu.be/NacWMDnU60o

http://youtu.be/JaXnJX57KLw

http://youtu.be/A4QC9thuH2I

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