Morning watch 3-4-15
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Yay, a temperature above freezing to start my watch at 33(F) 1(C) degrees-it was overcast but I’ll take small victories at this point
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I started this mornings watch with Beauty on the base of Mercury-she had her back to me from the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) so I went down to Bank Place in the hole where it meets Aqueduct St. She took off heading south over the river right after I got there.
Back up to the bridge where I spotted Dot.Ca (DC) on a southwest corner 0f Legacy Tower (LT) (formerly Bausch&Lomb) eating and Beauty was just flying off of Archer’s corner down to a northwest corner. She landed and took off again around the back where I lost track of her.
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I decided to go over to Court St. across from the Court St. garage to get a closer look and once there I spotted the Beautyful one on a southeast corner of LT opposite end of where DC was eating. I could only see his tail feathers at this time
DC finished eating, turned around to do some feaking as Beauty remained on her corner watching.
DC started walking away from the corner, pooped and was feaking as he walked further away from the corner. Beauty ended up flying over to finish off the scraps he left behind from his meal.
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Around 7:19am they both flew west. I ended up on State St. below Kodak Office (KO) watching DC on the southeast corner of the launchpad with a very full crop.
I left him to look for Beauty and I didn’t have to go too far as I found her eating on the Elwanger Barry building on State St. across from the Rochester Plaza Hotel. She took off to the east with her package soon after I stopped to watch.
I drove to the BSB and spotted Beauty come out from behind OCSR still carrying her leftovers-she flew over the Wilder building and then I spotted DC flying after her near the Times Square building (TSB). She landed under the northeast wing and went to the back of the ledge to start eating and DC landed under the southeast wing. I stopped by the Thomson Reuters building to take one pic.
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It was at this time Donna reported DC being at the nest box so he probably saw Beauty and flew out to meet her. I then went down to the hole and parked on Basin St.-I didn’t have a great angle on Beauty but could see her head every now and then.
At around 8:15am I went to get coffee and when I got back DC was under the northeast wing with Beauty at the back of it still eating. He had his back to me so I thought I would go park on Exchange Blvd. in front of the Blue Cross Arena for a better angle.
Beauty finished eating and DC flew off to the north. She disappeared from my view so I assumed she snuck off as well so I went north to KO and found them both on the south side arch about 8:40am.
DC was awake and alert watching the territory and picking at his talons while Beauty slept on and off and picked at her talons as well. They both had blood on their feet from breakfast and nice full crops-just the way I like it!
I figured they weren’t going to do much so I left for home. I got to Seneca Towers just in time to see a falcon fly from the northwest corner heading south. I waited a little while but it didn’t return so I ended my watch at 9:05am. So our downtown pair are doing well and I got a glimpse of one of the ST birds too-they’re keeping me smiling! 🙂
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