Morning watch 8-18-11
By Rochester falcon watcher MAK
There wasn’t any reason to write a report yesterday morning for I saw Beauty when it was still dark out on the railing of HSBC for a brief moment and then she was gone.There were no more sightings for the remainder of my watch.
I kept the truck to go to a doctor appointment yesterday and after I dropped Sue off at work I checked KP with no sightings there. I decided to go check out the Osprey nest site in Hilton after the doctor and talked my friend Tesa into joining me. We saw only the male adult and one other in the nest and they both left within an hour but we saw a little bit of flying from them first. They are just gorgeous in flight!
Fast forward to this morning…seeing no falcons around the Broad St. bridge area I drove to the east side as is my usual routine. No sightings over there either but as I made my way back to the bridge I spotted someone up on the base of Mercury.
Due to the darkness at that time I was having trouble getting a positive ID but I could clearly see that this falcon was looking for some breakfast after a little preening first! Looking down at some birdies below Mercury and then eye-balling some pigeons flying over the river.
It wasn’t until 5 minutes before I had to leave that I found out it was Archer that I was observing. I got a text message from Donna telling me that Beauty was at the nestbox.
I immediately looked up at Times Square and sure enough there she was the Beautyful one! I was so intent on watching him that I totally missed her sneak in. Once again MAK gets to play games with these two! lol I soo love it!!! That’s all there is and there ain’t no more! 🙂
