Morning watch 10-1-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Well, our streak of nice days came to an end today as we had foggy, dark conditions with a fine mist of rain falling most of the time on my watch. It was a bit warmer at 61 (F) 16 (C) degrees
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I started my watch in my own back yard so to speak, at Seneca Towers with both Billie and Mr. Yellow Tape (MYT) on the west side roof railing.
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They just hung out waiting for breakfast to appear while they woke up. MYT flew off and joined Buffalo Billie landing very close to her, before taking off again with her following right behind.
A woman in a wheel chair came whizzing by and backed up to talk to me after seeing my camera. Her name is Janice and she was quite thrilled to hear about falcons. When I told her about Luzerne, she said she thought she had seen her all flattened out on the sidewalk-thought she was probably run over by a car. After I showed her a pic she was certain it was a falcon because she remembered the “black and white stripes” as she out it. We spoke for quite a while until she had to get going and so did I. Billie returned for a few moments landing on the northwest corner then flew northwest.
I left for downtown a little after 8am and ran into a traffic back up because the police had St. Paul St. closed for an accident. After being re-routed to Conkey Ave. (a very rough part of the city) I made my way back on track. A drive that should only take a little over 5 minutes took 25! As I was glancing at Mercury I spotted a falcon on the base as I drove by, so I pulled onto Bank Place and parked where it meets Aqueduct St. in the hole. I determined it was Dot.Ca (DC).
I then proceeded to go up to the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) and while I was waiting in the intersection to turn left I noticed how foggy it was on the east side near Xerox and Bausch & Lomb.
DC was gone when I got up on the BSB so I went in search of-finding not DC, but Beauty on the southwest cube of the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT) as I was on Bragdon Place by the Radisson Hotel to check the OCSR elevator shaft for him.
It looked a lot foggier from a distance-when I arrived on Fitzhugh St. out in front of the Sister Cities garage I could see her much better.
The Beautyful one was very alert keeping track of the areas’ pigeons while I was watching road crews move curbing into place as they continue to improve the area roads. I left her around 8:30am and found DC on the 4th column from the northwest corner of Xerox. Waves of fog kept coming in and out of my view as DC wasn’t moving much.
I left him to it as I watched a worker planting some bright mums to break up the dull weather conditions before leaving downtown.
When I got home to Seneca Towers there were no falcons to be seen. I ended my watch at 10am with a smile after seeing all 4 Rochester Peregrine Falcons! 🙂
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October 1st, 2014 at 9:12 PM
I really enjoyed the pictures you took today and the videos as well.You sure have a good eye spotting Beauty and DC,especially in the fog.Thanks for that. Diane
October 1st, 2014 at 9:36 PM
My pleasure Diane, and thanks for going on watch with me-even if it’s just through my pics and videos! 🙂