Morning watch 12-21-12
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Well it looks like the first day of winter will be looking the part with snow flurries already this morning and more to come tonight and tomorrow. YAY! Bring it on cuz I love it and especially since it means we’ll have a white Christmas! 🙂 I had barely gotten parked on the Broad St. Bridge when a few panic stricken pigeons came flying up from the river south bound crossing in front of me followed by you guessed it-Beauty. They continued to the Cornhill area and vanished. 20 minutes later I spotted Beauty on the top ibeam of OCSR just to the right of the south corner. Due to the dark conditions I drove down to the hole (Aqueduct St.) for closer viewing and pics.
The Beautyful one was in serious hunt mode bobbing and weaving her head as they do when they are zeroing in on their prey. She stayed up there for half hour looking, looking, looking for breakfast. I moved closer still, parking by Aqueduct Park and started taping her. She pooped at one point and I thought for sure she would take off but she made me wait a bit longer. Finally around 8:30am she was off heading south and I quickly lost sight of her behind buildings.
10 minutes later I found her under the northeast wing eating. After trying a couple different spots to get a good look at her I settled in by Falcon Watcher Central.
There was no plucking of feathers and it appeared to be a meager sample of cached food plus Beauty didn’t spend more than 15 minutes picking at it before flying off. She returned to the top ibeam of the OCSR and that’s where I left her to go check the Brighton site(BS). As I made my way over there snow started to mix in with the rain that was coming down. I found no falcons to be at home on this watch as I waited about 30 minutes to see if either Miss Pigott or BST would show up. No such luck so I left BS. I checked downtown on my way thru to find Beauty was still in the same spot I left her on the top ibeam of OCSR. I’m looking forward to seeing more of the white stuff over the next couple days as it tends to make me smile. 🙂
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