Morning watch 9-4-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
A perfect weather morning for a falcon watch-blue sky with some fair weather clouds, sun and a temperature of 64 (F) 18 (C)
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I dedicate this watch report to the City of Rochester Police Dept. and one of their brothers who was shot and killed while on duty last night. My thoughts and prayers to his family and friends. I stopped at Main and State St. this morning to offer my condolences to the traffic cops that I see there every morning on my watches as 4 of them were gathered to console each other. This tragedy occurred just a mile from where I live.
I checked everywhere before heading across the river to the east side where I found Beauty on the north side of HSBC eating. I spotted her from the back lot of the Inn on Broadway and moved over to Chestnut St. by the Hotel Cadillac for better viewing.
Beauty finished eating shortly after-and as I was taping her she turned around, feaked a couple times on the edge then flew off toward the northwest. I thought she may be going to the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT) to rest while her food digests as that’s the direction she was headed and that’s her pattern lately. That’s exactly where I found her-she was on the northeast cube (one of her favorite spots to perch).
I pulled over on Fitzhugh St. in front of the Sister Cities parking garage to share space with the Beautyful one. She cleaned herself up a bit more before walking down to the end of the beam to preen and pose before closing her eyes for a short nap.
I left to do a Dot.Ca (DC) search but didn’t find him-I returned to the same spot to find Beauty in the same spot doing the same thing. A little more preening then back to sleep. I left her to do another search for DC, stopping by the Radisson Hotel at Main St. to check the OCSR elevator shaft. This time I found Mr. Antisocial up on the north side instead of the south where he’s been every other time I’ve found him up there.
Well, he had his back to me and was most likely asleep as he didn’t move at all so I left him too. On my way out of downtown I checked to see that Beauty was still on FCT then I proceeded to check the Kodak Hawkeye Plant, Kodak Park research building and last Seneca Towers for Veteran and/or Billie. No luck again and I’m thinking maybe they are spending time under the Veterans Bridge out of the sun and heat much like DC in the elevator shaft. Hopefully, they’ll be seen soon. I ended my watch at 9:15am. Keep smiling everyone-I will if you will! 🙂
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September 4th, 2014 at 9:11 PM
Nice dedication MAK. I am one that respects the tough job that the police have to do on a daily basis. The stuff that is going on out in the world today and on the streets is quite frightening and I respect any man or woman that dedicates their live to ensuring our safety. Very sad to hear that a police officer has lost his life doing his duty.
September 4th, 2014 at 11:31 PM
Thanks for your comment Kathy-he deserves all the kind words and thoughts that can be said. 🙂