Morning Falcon Watch 10-16-15
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
We had changeable weather this morning-sun, rain and sun while raining. It was mostly cloudy at first, then the skies cleared, only to be inundated with clouds again. The starting temperature was 46 (F) 8 (C)
Surprisingly, there were no falcons at Seneca Towers when I started my watch. Just as I was making my way downtown, watcher Pat reported a falcon flying east from the southeast wing of Times Square (TSB) past the Chase building at 7:40am. As I was stopped on the Court St. bridge after checking the east side, I spotted Beauty on the east railing across from the Powers nest box. I drove down to the end of Aqueduct St. as she flew off toward the Frontier Communications tower (FCT). I found her on the northeast cube.
Beauty did a little preening and worked hard on extracting a pellet from her pretty much empty crop. She flew over to Kodak Office (KO) at 7:55am.
I found not only the Beautyful one but Dot.ca (DC) as well on KO. She was on the southeast corner of the 17th floor and he was on the southeast corner of the launchpad. I stopped at State and Platt St. but they weren’t facing me so I drove up to State and Brown St.
They were looking over their territory and looking up and down at each other occasionally.
I left them around 8:15am-as I was crossing the Veteran’s Memorial Bridge on my way to the Medley Centre I noticed a falcon on the north end roof of Seneca Towers. I pulled into the Northridge Church parking lot real quick and took a couple pics but couldn’t say for sure who it was-I think Seth.
No luck seeing Big Frank at the mall again-I hope she comes back to grace us with her awesome presence. I ended my watch at 9 am. In my travels I took a few pics of the fall colors-I hope they put a smile on your face as they did on mine!
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