By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Nice morning with a starting temperature of 71 (F) 22 (C)

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I was sidetracked at St. Paul St. and Andrews St. by road work which took to the east side of town to start as I came in from the back side of HSBC, Xerox and Bausch & Lomb (&L). Worked out to my advantage as I spotted Beauty up on one of the northeast corners of B&L-unfortunately, the road work near Broad,Chestnut,Court , Woodbury streets and South Ave. were making my choices to view her very limited. By the time I found a spot to pull over she was gone. I made my way to the Broad St. Bridge where I saw Beauty on the north side of B&L same level as before. I finally ended up at Clinton and Broad St. right below the Beautyful one.

At first I thought she was picking at food and then she feaked on the edge-so I guess I caught her finishing up breakfast. She looked around quite a bit, then around 7:30am she pooped, turned, looked north, waved goodbye and flew northwest.

I left and get caught up in backed up traffic from St. Pauk St. getting torn up by workers. When I finally got thru to the Andrews St. bridge I found Beauty right where I thought she was going-the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT).  Drove to Fitzhugh St. to watch her perched on the northeast cube preening away and looking just Beautyful.

I left her to check the OCSR elevator shaft for Dot.Ca (DC) since that’s where he’s been spending his mornings of late-he wasn’t there! I spotted him under the northeast wing of Times Square from the Broad St. bridge. I went down to the hole to check him out a little closer. It was nice to see  a front view of him and his bright whiteness.

DC  had his head in constant motion looking around the area with some scratching and preening mixed in. Then DC turned his back on me for a bit and turned around with a look of bewilderment before returning to watching the skies.

DC shared space with me for over an hour then spread his wings and flew off to the southeast about 9:10am.

A short time later I received a tweet from Jersey girl, cam watcher Donna that DC had joined Beauty on FCT. So he doubled back on me and flew north-sneaky little guy! I drove over to the City Hall parking lot  on Fitzhugh St. to find Beauty and her mate in the white section of FCT below the platform. He was on the east side and she was on the west and they had their back to me.

Figuring they’d just hang out there for a good long while, I left them. On my way home I checked Hawkeye, Kodak Park research building and Seneca Towers before heading up to my 16th floor apartment at 10am. No sightings for me, but another one of the local watchers Pat, saw a falcon which was most likely Billie on the southeast railing of my building on her way to work. Billie and Veteran have been scarce around here in the last week or two so that made me smile! 🙂

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