Morning watch 10-5-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
A cold start this morning with clouds and sun and a starting temperature of 39 (F) 4 (C)
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Well, for the first time in many days I say no falcons on my Seneca Towers building when I left for my morning watch. I arrived downtown around 7:20am finding Beauty under the northeast wing of the Times Square building (TSB). I parked on Exchange Blvd. in front of the Blue Cross Arena for the best view of her.
10 minutes later Dot.Ca (DC) flew in and buzzed by Beauty like a flash, making her duck-he flew over to the southeast wing ledge and landed. My best guess is that he went by her so close like that to see if she had food.
Unfortunately, his back was to me and if I had moved to another location they both would have had their backs to me so I stayed put-it worked out good because he left after a few minutes while I was changing the battery in my camera. The Beautyful one moved over showing herself better and did a little preening and feather plucking-she’s still not quite done molting.
I left her just before 8am and came across his whiteness, DC, on the northeast corner of the Kodak Office launchpad. He was looking hard for breakfast-there was something below him he was especially intrigued with and I thought he was going to go after it but didn’t.
DC started preening and plucking feathers as he is still not done molting either. I was parked on State St. right below the tower instead of on Mill St. where I usually go. It got me that much closer to him.
At just about 8:15am DC pooped and got set to fly off very fast to the south toward Times Square and I followed right behind him.
When I caught up with DC he was on the Mercury money bag and Beauty was below on the base. My guess is that she flew from Times Square and he thought she was going after food and just had to check it out. lol I parked in the hole parking lot to see both of them-unfortunately the back lighting was not good making for dark photos.
Around 8:45am DC flew over to the northeast wing ledge on Times Square and Beauty followed right behind him. As she came up to land he flew off and she took his place as he ended up on the top ibeam of OCSR near the south corner.
I went to get coffee and DC left while I was gone-I left Beauty on Times Square and found DC back on the northeast corner of the Kodak Office launchpad.
I didn’t stay too long before leaving for home-I checked Hawkeye and Seneca Towers but came up empty! I ended my watch at 10am after sharing space with Beauty and DC, who left a smile on my face as they always do! 🙂
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October 5th, 2014 at 5:44 PM
DC, that lil stinker!! FOOD, FOOD, is all he thinks about!! 🙂
October 5th, 2014 at 5:48 PM
Isn’t he hysterical!? He’s so obvious!! lol 🙂