By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Happy Labor Day to all! It is a very dark and gloomy day in the flower city and when you’re looking for falcons without any success it just seems that much worse. But when you do finally make that discovery it brightens things up ALOT!  After several trips around the city I opted to check out the river to occupy my time until Beauty decided to show herself. She hasn’t played hide and seek with me in awhile. lol To my surprise there were 2 Great Egrets fishing on the rocks between the Broad and Court St. bridges.

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Finally an hour into my watch as I was walking back to the truck I noticed a falcon on the ledge right above the nestbox and snapped off this pic before going to a location with a better view.

Parking next to the Times Square building I had a better angle and could ID it as the Beautyful one!

She was off  and flying before I knew it and I had to wait another 30 minutes before I was able to find her again. Beauty was perched on the FCT northeast corner of the platform railing.

I really didn’t feel like watching her back so I drove around behind the church and parked in the Open Door Mission parking lot.

She preened a little, watched some birds down below in a tree and spread out her wings to catch her balance at one point. For 20 minutes I shared her space and then she was off flying fast to the north. I thought she was going over to the Kodak tower when she suddenly went into a stoop and vanished.

I gave it another go around without any more sightings and called it a watch. Below is the link to a small album of the Great Egrets I saw in the river, Enjoy!  🙂

http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/sharing/shareRedirectSwitchBoard.jsp?token=870005903213%3A144900560&sourceId=533754321803&cm_mmc=Share-_-Personal-_-Email-_-Sharer-_-Top

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