By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Well folks there isn’t a whole lot of  falcon news to report this morning but I thought I’d touch base with everyone anyway. As I approached the Broad St. bridge today the road crew was  hard  at work  paving  the intersection of Exchange and Broad streets directly below the Times Square building. They had very bright lights on the scene that were blasting me as I passed through. It was no surprise that I saw no falcons anywhere near this area so I drove directly to the east side. I found Beauty on the northwest corner of  HSBC.

Unfortunately I had just the one pic that was good enough to post due to dark conditions and my inability to find a suitable place to observe the Beautyful one. She remained there for my entire watch.

I want to voice my opinion about the fact that Archer has been practically non-existent  over at KP lately. In the last week there has been only 1 or 2 sightings reported of him being there. I believe he may be spending his nights downtown near Beauty these days perhaps strengthening their bond before he sets off on migration in a month or so. I say this because he has been downtown so much lately not only first thing in the morning when I get there but at other times during the day too! We continue to learn as we go from our Rochester falcons.

Tomorrow morning I won’t be out for a watch as I am going on a transmitter retrieving trip with Joyce,KathyO,Dana,Lisa McK and CarolP.  If you’ll recall last winter a gull with a transmitter was spotted in Charlotte. Carol received  an e-mail from the professor in Montreal that another gull of his is showing no movement and requested help in retrieving the transmitter. He has given the co-ordinates of where it may be near and so being the adventurous bunch that we are will be going on a road trip about 80 miles southeast of Rochester to hopefully help him out with this matter. Wish us luck and have a great Friday everyone!  🙂

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