By Rochester falcon watcher MAK

Wow was traffic ever heavy on 490 this morning going downtown! School buses in all 3 lanes making for a difficult time getting into the lane I needed to get to. Then after no sightings in the Times Square/Broad St. area I drove over to the east side where I was met with road crews at every turn!!! Ok, enough complaining…I found Beauty on the south side of HSBC and all was right with the world again! lol She took off before I could get settled anywhere and while I was in transit through the maze of road work she went straight over to the nestbox and met up with Archer as reported to me by Donna. By the time I got over there the party was over. Beauty was nowhere to be found and Archer was on the base of Mercury. Before I could get a pic he flew up to the head touched down and then was off going into a stoop on the other side of the Thompson Reuters building where I lost sight of him. The elusive one ended up on the OCSR building 2nd ibeam down at the south corner. Finally I had a minute to catch my breath and take a pic.

It was a short break of 5 minutes or so and then Archer took off again heading southwest which said to me he’s going to the jail tower. WRONG! I checked there and the FCT and the Kodak tower and the north side of OCSR to no avail. I then went to  the Broad St. bridge and got out to look for the Great Egrets I had seen in the river over the weekend. There was one down there sooo… at the end of my report you will find the link for a video I taped of it fishing! After I finished up with that I drove reluctantly to the east side where all the road work is being done and found Archer on the southside of the HSBC building with Beauty perched at the southeast corner about 20 ft. away from each other.

You must click on the middle pic to see both Beauty and Archer.

The next pics are all Archer. Beauty had her back to me the whole time so…

I had 10 minutes to view them and then they flew off, Archer first, followed by the Beautyful one!

Click on pics for full view

I left the scene searching for them without any luck and called it a watch. Phew what a rush todays watch turned out to be and I loved every minute of it… well maybe not the traffic !  🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOdZbbJ5hyk

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