Morning watch 3-16-15
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Today’s starting temperature was 32(F) o(C) with partly to mostly cloudy skies and light winds
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After stopping on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) for a look/see I made the U-turn to check the east side and when I did I spotted Beauty on a southwest corner of Legacy Tower (LT). She had her back to me so I drove over to Elm St.
She wasn’t there for long as she flew off while I was tweeting. I went back to the BSB where I saw the Beautyful one at the nest box. I tweeted it out and then I got reports from Donna, who said both Beauty and Dot.ca (DC) had been to the nest box and Shaky saying Beauty was there. Thanks!
I no sooner tweeted that and looked back up to see that Beauty was now on cam 1 so I headed down to the hole to watch her.
I’m sure she was looking for DC as she was very alert looking around at everything that moved. The sun came out for a few minutes and made her look that much more pretty and at 7:43am Beauty turned, spread her wings and flew north.
I caught up with Beauty on Kodak Office (KO) as I made my way down State St. She was on the northeast corner of the launchpad facing north.
Beauty turned to the south, so I moved to the south side of KO. She flew south at 8:09am.
When I reached Times Square (TSB) I found Beauty on the column above the nest box-I parked in front of the Blue Cross Arena on Exchange Blvd. for the best view of her.
5 minutes later Beauty turned around so I went over to Basin St. in the hole to see why she turned-DC was on a north side ledge at the back of TSB with fresh prey.
Beauty watched DC as he prepared the food-feathers were flying and I guess she got impatient for she vocalized something to him then flew east. I had to leave to get ready for an appointment but when I got to Seneca Towers and saw Billie and 99 on the west side of the building I had to stop for a few moments to watch them. He was on the railing and she was on the roof below him.
I was on my way at just before 9am ending my watch after seeing all 4 Rochester Peregrine Falcons doing their thing and making me smile! 🙂
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March 16th, 2015 at 6:16 PM
O my gosh, MAK, that pic of Beauty spreading her wings on cam 1 is just SPECTACULAR! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
March 16th, 2015 at 8:47 PM
No problem Patty-glad ya liked it. I had a spectacular subject! 🙂
March 16th, 2015 at 10:15 PM
Great pic of Beauty on Cam 1!
March 17th, 2015 at 12:20 AM
Thanks Joycie-I consider that a great compliment coming from you. 🙂
March 17th, 2015 at 10:53 AM
Prize winning photography, for sure! Wish I could send you a pic of the red tailed hawk that entertained us at breakfast sitting on the tupelo tree out side our window.. Also did a slow opening of his wings to fly over the sea marsh. Lordy, these birds do entertain when you have time to just observe. Thanks for being our “Daily Observer”.!! J.
March 17th, 2015 at 3:41 PM
Glad to do it and thankful that I can June! 🙂