By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

What a blur when I left my apartment this morning as there was heavy fog surrounding Seneca Towers. The temperature was 60 (F) 16 (C) with no wind to speak of

Click on the pics to see the full version

I parked in my spot on Seth Green Drive and was surprised that I could see the roof as well as I did-there were no falcons on it.

I left for downtown and as I made my way down Lake Ave. I noticed fog engulfing the top of the Kodak Office Tower.

So I arrived in downtown about 8am finding it to be less foggy than home with only the tallest building roof tops (Xerox, Bausch&Lomb)covered by fog and Beauty on the base of Mercury. I pulled over on Broad St. next to the Blue Cross Arena.

10 minutes later she stooped down toward the river out of view. While looking for her to resurface I spotted Dot.Ca (DC) fly to the top ibeam south corner of OCSR and land on it.

I decided to go up on the Broad St. bridge to look for the Beautyful one and found her on the other side of the base of Mercury where I couldn’t see her from my prior location.

DC then flew over to the Mercury money bag right above his mate and Beauty started to stretch and preen while he kept watch.

I then went down to the hole where the back lighting was terrible since there backs were to me on the bridge-just look at the difference in the pics-literally, like night and day.

DC did a little preening, pooped a couple times and roused before flying off at 9:26am heading south. I quickly looked down to the base where Beauty had been-she was gone so I don’t know who left first, but I now had no falcons in sight.

When they didn’t return I left for home checking the sites along the way with no sightings downtown, Hawkeye or Seneca Towers. I ended my watch at 9:50am as the fog was lifting and the sun was breaking thru. As I was preparing this report I heard a falcon outside my window alarm call a couple times but didn’t see one. Keep smiling people-it doesn’t cost a thing! 🙂

Click on the links below to see todays videos-with a special fog video as I left my apartment for my watch
http://youtu.be/DrQRgNb3RHs
http://youtu.be/zeKHqK8CnXo
http://youtu.be/qRCOvbWkWNs
http://youtu.be/ECqRlypcQ4U

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