By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P

Here are the tweets from today:

1:34 pm – Donna C – RFalconcamNow – “Beauty back on Mercury.” – Seen from Camera #1

4:00 pm – Carol P – “DT. Beauty is on top of the Hyatt on the west side.”

4:50 pm – Carol P – “DT. Beauty just flew from the Hyatt directly up into the OCSR elevator shaft. Nite Beauty!”

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My day started out in the 20’s (F) and went up into the 40’s.  Even with the sun shining, it was bitter cold when I arrived downtown at 3:45 pm.  I ended up parking on the Broad St Bridge and found Beauty on top of the Hyatt on the west side (river side).   I stayed on the bridge for  close to an hour keeping an eye on Beauty and watching 4 separate flocks of Pigeons whirling around the sky above.  They did this for the whole hour I was there, never resting.

About a 1/2 hour into my watch, I was joined by Pat for a short while.  She told me that she had checked for Beauty at lunch time, but had no luck finding her. After Pat left, a Coopers Hawk flew through heading south over the library.  Again Beauty didn’t seem to mind another hunter in her territory.

At 4:45 it was getting dark and Beauty took off and flew directly up into the OCSR elevator shaft.  More than likely, she was spending her evenings up there, out of the worse of the weather.  From there she could see everything below her.  Night Beauty!

Right now, I only have about an hour of daylight to look for falcons during the week.  Can’t wait for the days to get longer!

I’ll leave you with some pictures from my watch.  If you would like to see a larger version of the picture, just click on it.  Thanks!

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