Morning watch 1-13-15
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Back to brr-ish temps for one day with a temperature of 7 (F) -14 (C) overcast sky and snow falling
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There was nobody around at Seneca Towers as I set out on my morning falcon watch today. I fully expected to find falcons in the OCSR elevator shaft due to the weather but Beauty and Dot.ca (DC) fooled me- I was hard pressed to find them at first. Finally, around 8:15am I came across DC on the south side arch of Kodak Office (KO). This was a surprise to me because that is a favorite spot of the Beautyful one-maybe he was waiting for her. He had his back to me as I was pulled over on State St.
It was so cold that my camera was having trouble focusing, of course the dark lighting, snow falling and distance didn’t help either. Around 8:35am I drove over to Verona St. on the west side of KO for a front view of DC and just as I got there he flew south in a big hurry. I thought perhaps he saw Beauty but he returned about 5 minutes later to the same spot on the arch.
I left his whiteness around 9am to look for Beauty to no avail, stopped for coffee and returned to see that DC hadn’t left his spot on the KO south side arch. Left him again to search for Beauty and this time I was successful-while stopped at the traffic light at South Ave. and Broad St. I spotted her up on a southwest corner of Bausch & Lomb (B&L). I drove to Court St. across from the Court St. garage to observe her-she too had her back to me.
I decided to g0 around the block to Clinton Ave. where I could at least get a side view of Beauty before ending my watch.
Now that I had seen both of our downtown pair of Rochester Peregrine Falcons I could leave smiling at 10:25am! 🙂
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January 13th, 2015 at 11:52 AM
Beauty is a brave one,out in the open in this frigid weather. Thanks for the views and videos today. Keep warm and safe now.Diane
January 13th, 2015 at 3:22 PM
Beauty is a tough girl and a survivor Diane. She has been dealing with our winters since 2009. Thanks for your kind words. 🙂
January 13th, 2015 at 7:02 PM
I always love to see Beauty be it front, side or back 🙂
Thank you MAK!
January 13th, 2015 at 7:35 PM
Right on Ginny! 🙂
January 14th, 2015 at 10:43 AM
I’m with all of you! I’m just glad to see they are both still there and well (though VERY cold) as are you presumably.. Thanks for being there MAK! J.
January 14th, 2015 at 2:51 PM
Glad to do it June. 🙂