Morning watch 11-23-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
We’re having a warm spell as the temperature this morning was 21 degrees higher than yesterday at 46 (F) 8 (C). It was overcast and dreary with a light breeze
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I didn’t find any falcons at Seneca Towers as I left for my watch this morning but I did see one fly over Hawkeye as I made my way down St. Paul St. I received a message from Donna that Beauty had flown off Mercury so when I reached the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) I looked there first and found Beauty on the green part of the base. 2 minutes later Dot.Ca (DC) flew in to join her landing on the cement part of the base. I believe he was checking to see if she had food.
Beauty and DC flew east at the same time-he went toward Xerox and she toward Chase-both disappeared behind the buildings. 10 minutes later at 7:35am after checking the east side I returned to the BSB to find Beauty on the Mercury money bag (MMB) and DC way up on the northwest wing ring of Times Square (TSB).
I decided to go down to the hole so I could be in between them-while I was taping Beauty, DC left the wing ring . From down in the hole the back lighting on the Beautyful one was bad, making for dark photos so I played around with them in Picassa.
Beauty kept looking down at something, bobbing her head many times and finally she flew off down toward the river and out of view at 8:17am.
I made my way up to the BSB where I spotted Beauty flying and hovering above Xerox. I drove to Court St. across from the Court St. garage where I had a close view of her flight show. Beauty flew south and when she didn’t return I went back to the BSB where I spotted her under the northeast wing of Times Square. I went down to the hole and noticed DC on the back part of TSB on the north side eating, at which time I crossed over to the parking lot by TSB.
Beauty was keeping an eye on her mate and as I was taping him she flew over his head which stirred him up. He msut have been afraid she was going to take his food for he took off with his small package. Beauty landed a couple columns away from where DC had been eating (most likely looking to see if he left any behind) then she flew over to the Widows Walk railing, east side. She didn’t stay but a moment then flew south behind TSB out of sight.
A few minutes later I spotted Beauty soaring above Xerox again-once more I parked on Court St. to watch her. She stooped behind me toward the river after 5 minutes of entertaining me with her winged prowess. I stopped on the Court St. bridge to check out the river on my way thru.
I ended up on Bragdon St. to check the elevator shaft after having no luck finding anybody around 9am. From there I could just barely make out the white of DC across the river on the green strip of the Ellwanger & Barry building on State St. across from the Rochester Plaza Hotel.
By the time I got over to State St. DC was gone-I found him right around the corner on the south side of the platform railing of the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT). He didn’t stay there for long as he flew over to the northeast cube. He was watching something below him then he looked up and flew down to the north side of the tower.
I couldn’t see him so I went down to the City Hall parking lot where I found out what had his attention-Beauty. She was on a north side beam under the platform and he was on an east side beam same level as Beauty, covering up leftover food. After a couple minutes he flew off with the goods and a minute later Beauty flew off too.
I didn’t follow as I had to be somewhere but I had a good time following them today as I ended my watch at 9:30am with a smile! 🙂
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