By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Two days to catch up on my evening Falcon Watches.  First I’ll start with the tweets from the Falcon Watchers.

12/11/12 Tweets (Mine plus other Watchers that do not report)

7:22 am – Donna – RFalconcamNow – “Beauty on Mercury’s moneybag & gone at 7:27 am” – Seen on Camera #1

10:01 am – Donna – RFalconcamNow – “Beauty on Mercury’s moneybag & gone at 10:20 am” – Seen on Camera #1

9:50 am – Lisa McK. – “At BS, so far found 1 falcon on south side.  Still looking for other.”

10:00 am – Lisa McK. – “BS falcon watch.  Found both falcons enjoying the sun on the south side.”

3:50 pm – Carol P. – “DT. Beauty is on Mercury’s moneybag.”

12/12/12 Tweets (Mine plus other Watchers that do not report)

7:17 am – Donna – RFalconcamNow – “Beauty has just landed on Mercury.” – Seen on Camera #1

12:00 pm – Lisa McK. – “No sign of B downtown.”

12:10 pm – Lisa McK. – “At BS, 2 falcons found. 1 on NE corner of east extension.”

12:11 pm – Lisa McK. – “Other falcon on window ledge on  south side of east extension.”

3:12 pm – Brian H. – “I had a Merlin hunting pigeons right over my head and it stooped down 30 feet away just missing pigeon!”

4:00 pm – Carol P. – “DT. B is on Mercury’s money bag.”

4:01 pm – Carol P. – “DT B just flew up into the elevator shaft after I took me pic.”

4:01 pm – Lisa McK. – “At BS, both falcons found.  P just did some soaring as some crows flew by.”

4:50 pm – Joyce – “Both P and BST in the same roosting area NE side. Backs to us. One is 3 windows down and the other 2 down. Joyce, Carol, Lisa”

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OK, now for my reports.

12/11/12 – Tuesday

I arrived downtown at about 3:45 pm and immediately spotted Beauty on Mercury’s money bag.  As usual, she was facing west, looking towards the Times Square Bldg.  It was very cold and overcast, so as usual my evening pics are not the best.  I couldn’t stay long because I was meeting a friend for dinner.  I stayed long enough to freeze my fingers and get a few pictures of Beauty so that I could share them with you.  🙂  I left Beauty on Mercury just as I was losing light.

12/12/12 – Wednesday (love that date!  : )

Today I arrived downtown at about 3:50 pm.  The sun was actually shining and it didn’t seem quite as cold as it had been the last couple days.  I spotted Beauty on Mercury from the Andrews St Bridge.  I drove over to the Broad St Bridge and parked at Falcon Watch Central.  From there I would have the sun behind me, giving me better lighting than I was used to at this time of day.  I got out of my car and walked to my normal spot to get that perfect picture.  I put my camera up, looked through the view finder and ………… Beauty’s wings were up!  I clicked one picture and she was off!  Hahaha!  I quickly backed up enough to see the OCSR.  I was just in time to see Beauty fly up into the OCSR elevator shaft.  Well, that’s my luck.  lol

I drove over to the OCSR building and looked up into the elevator shaft.  Yep, there she was.  Last time she was on the south ledge, this time she was on the north ledge.  I took a couple pics, but it was too dark up there to get any kind of decent picture.

Just after I arrived downtown, Lisa McK had tweeted that she had both Pigott and BST over at the BS location, so that’s where I headed, knowing that it would be dark soon.  I joined Lisa and we watched Pigott on the south side of the building.  BST was on the north side.  Joyce joined us, but we were losing light quick.  Pigott & BST ended up very close to each other on the north east side of the building.

So, all three Rochester Falcons were seen today making it a very good day!

Here are a few pictures from today’s Watch.

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