Morning watch 12-12-12
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Todays watch started off with some action. As I made my way down Broad St. toward the bridge I got a tweet from Donna(thank you) that Beauty was on Mercury. As I passed Fitzhugh St. with the Times Square building to my left I looked toward Mercury. Passing thru the intersection of Exchange and Broad I spotted pigeons over Thomson Reuters and then there was another small group of pigeons over the Broad St. Bridge- that one had Beauty on its tail! As I pulled over to watch she chased them up river toward Cornhill then I lost them. Great start to my day tho!! The Manhattan Square Park ice skating ring was open for business with the freezing temps the last couple days.
I ran around looking for the Beautyful one to no avail so I drove to Brighton(BS) to have a look/see. I went in from the back of BS and saw a falcon on the south side vent at the east end of it with prey. I drove up closer to the property and pulled over to check it out. Pigott was the falcon and she had a pigeon that she was de-feathering.
Miss Pigott was really going to town pulling lots of feathers out at a time and then she stopped suddenly took a look around and started moving her meal away from the corner.
She hopped,jumped and skipped her way toward the middle of the vent and then she rested while taking in the airspace around her. A plane flew by real low startling her and then she started to eat.
I observed Pigott about 45 minutes- took a spin around the property to see if BST was present which he wasn’t and left her to eat her meal and returned to downtown to find Beauty. I spotted her from the Andrews St. Bridge-she was on the northeast side of OCSR top ibeam. For closer viewing I drove to Bragdon St. and parked right next to the Radisson Hotel across the river from her.
She had her back to me but she was turning her head my way occasionally to look around the area. I hung out with Beauty about an hour and then I had to end my watch. I wish I had seen BST but it was a nice little watch just the same-beginning and ending with the Beautyful one and Miss Pigott in between. What more could you need to put a smile on your face! 🙂
Click on the links below for todays videos
http://youtu.be/XvtoaxI6twc
http://youtu.be/NekQySqBiBU
http://youtu.be/5OjkPPrmLg8
http://youtu.be/VbCmYuYLbdc
