By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

When I arrived downtown this morning I parked on the Broad St. bridge in my usual spot facing the Times Square building and situated so that I have a view of OCSR,Kodak Office,FCT,Mercury,Times Square and the jail tower. I caught a glimpse of a dark figure at the nestbox…it was Beauty with her back to me as usual. The time was 5:27am.

I didn’t know it at the time but this would be my only look at her for the rest of my watch. As I pushed the send button for my tweet a text message came in from Donna and wiped out my tweet so some 10 minutes later I realized it hadn’t gone out yet. I re-tweeted but by this time Beauty had left the nestbox without me noticing.I searched for the Beautyful one for 45 minutes without any luck so I took a few pics of the river birds.

I then decided to go over to KP and try my luck there. When I arrived, Unity was laying down in the scrape looking as if she were incubating.

I didn’t see Archer anywhere so I stood outside the truck for a few minutes soaking up the nice morning sunshine on these old arthritic bones. Dana and CarolP dropped by on their way to Buffalo and we chit-chatted for a few minutes. As they were leaving I spotted Archer up on the black stripe of the blue building near the nook and above the scrape.

There’s just no mistaking that white feather on his right wing! Unity remained in the scrape but she moved out closer to the front where she could keep an eye on her wandering tiercel. With Archer dozing off to sleep and Unity hunkered down in the scrape I decided to return to the downtown area. As I made my way down State St. I noticed the Jehovahs’ Witnesses were back in town for another revival at the Blue Cross Arena. Lots of traffic on foot and in cars. There were no parking spots to be had on the bridge so I went down to Aqueduct St. and found 2 workers in the bucket of the crane working on Mercury.

I checked all the usual spots for Beauty without finding her and decided to call it a watch.  I stopped for gas on the way home and spotted this Mockingbird on a light pole.

Actually, I heard him first.Have a great day everyone! 🙂

For more pics of my watch follow this link:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/sharing/shareRedirectSwitchBoard.jsp?token=943218072213%3A1457980996&sourceId=533754321803&cm_mmc=Share-_-Personal-_-Email-_-Sharee-_-Top

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