By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Well folks I thought I’d fool Beauty and Archer this morning by getting downtown earlier at 5:15am so I could catch them up in the nestbox. WRONG! I swear they are messing with me cuz they were later than usual to show up in there.

Anyway, here is the scoop. ‘Twas very dark this morning because of cloud cover from some rain coming into our area. I drove around checking all the usual spots without finding a falcon and so I just parked it on the Broad St. bridge. Finally about 5:50am a falcon appeared on the base of Mercury. Being so dark out with the street lights still on and showing only it’s back I wasn’t sure who it was.

Just before it took off it turned and then I knew it was the Beautyful one!

I didn’t see where she went so I took off to check the FCT because that has been the routine lately. As per usual she and Archer met in the nestbox while I was gone as reported to me by Donna.  I was on my way back to the Times Square area when I got her tweet and as I drove through the intersection at Broad and Exchange streets I spotted Archer on top of the fire escape ladder on the Wilder building. Well wasn’t that a quick bonding encounter? Probably sensed that MAK was on her way!  lol I quickly turned around on the bridge and looked to see if Beauty was visible in the nestbox(she wasn’t) before driving down to Aqueduct St. for a closer view of Archer.

Again, it was really dark this morning so please forgive the quality of my pics. I got to spend about 10 minutes with him before I had to head for home. Oh, the games falcons play! Have a great day! 🙂

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