By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was an ugly morning-very dark and overcast with fog and a persistent misty rain falling. Temperature was 40 (F) 4 (C)

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I found Dot.ca on the top ibeam north corner of OCSR around 7:30am while I was checking the elevator shaft from Bragdon Place.

DC has his back to me so I drove over to State St. across from the Rochester Plaza Hotel to view him from the front. He didn’t stay for long as he dropped off and headed straight down int a stoop. I lost him behind the hotel and he never re-surfaced.

I left for the Times Square area and spotted Beauty from the hole on Aqueduct St.-I left for the Radisson Hotel near Main St. for the closest view of her. She was on the southeast side of OCSR top ibeam with her back to me. There’s a pedestrian bridge that goes above Main St. connecting the Radisson with the Rochester Convention center-every year the city puts snowflakes on it for the holiday season.

The Beautyful one spent just about the whole 20 minutes that I watched her preening-not really in hunt mode as you would expect first thing in the morning. She flew northeast at 8am.

I caught up with Beauty around 8:30am on the south side arch of the Kodak Office tower after searching downtown for half hour-she was on the south side arch of the Kodak Office tower. Again she had her back to me and spent time preening.

I left to look for DC and when I returned to State St. and Beauty on the south side arch of Kodak Office I spotted DC on the east side arch. They both had their backs to me now.

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I didn’t stay long thus heading home to Seneca Towers where I found Billie on the south end antenna. I was just about to start taping her when a loud bang from a garbage truck emptying the dumpsters scared her off to the south.

I ended my watch at 9:50am with a smile, happy to have seen Buffalo Billie for the short minute or two that she was in my sights! 🙂

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