By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Arriving downtown about 5;15am there were no falcons around but there was plenty of trash on the Broad St. bridge from the fireworks last night. I was in attendance and they were spectacular! The street cleaner kept chasing me around the Times Square area. lol So I drove over to the east side and checked out Xerox and HSBC with no sightings. As I arrived back on the Broad St. bridge I could see Beauty on the perch in the nestbox.

She was only there long enough for a pic and off she went to land on the base of Mercury grab a bit of cached food and fly over to  OCSR 2nd ibeam on the southeast side(riverside).

She quickly ate what she had and flew over to the Times Square building and landed under the northeast wing.

The Beautyful one was not letting any moss grow under her talons this morning for 5 minutes later she flew down to the ledge that is located directly above the nestbox. I had to smile when a robin came swooping down on Beauty as she was preening. She stopped momentarily, probably to figure out what happened and then went right back to preening. Meanwhile the robin had flown up to under the southeast wing of the Times Square building and was giving her the business, squawking up a storm!

Each place Beauty went to she stayed less than 5 minutes. She has a white feather on her right wing which is ready to come out anytime for it was blowing in the breeze yesterday. It’s giving me a bit of a problem identifying her because Archer has one on the right wing too. Hers is located lower than his but it still throws me off sometimes and so I try to get a look at her from the front to be sure.

This is the view from Aqueduct St. parked by the Wilder building

After reading the forum I see that Donna had both Beauty and Archer in the nestbox at 5:36am. That would be when I was on the east side searching and I didn’t see Archer at all this morning little sneak that he is! lol I had a short watch this morning and will for the remainder of the week due to transportation reasons but next week I will be back to my usual 3 hour watches. I ended this watch with Beauty on the ledge above the nestbox. Have a great day everyone and keep your eyes to the sky! 🙂

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