Morning watch 1-30-13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Not much to report on this balmy January morning. It was 59 degrees fahrenheit(15 celcius)when I left for downtown today. It will be short-lived for tomorrow it’s forecast to be 30 degrees colder with wind and snow.
I arrived on the Broad St. bridge at exactly 7:00am hoping to catch Beauty before she went to her secret place where we can’t find her. No such luck! At about 7:25am I spotted Beautyflying thru from the southwest. She was eastbound going over the Thomson Reuters building then the river and I eventually lost her when she passed over the Radisson Hotel. I immediately drove over to the east side but couldn’t find her on any buildings. While stopped for a red light at Broad and Chestnut St. I spotted her hovering in the wind above Xerox. I pulled over to try and get a video of her but she kept going back and forth in and out of view. I then decided to go to the bridge to get out farther away so I could see more. I did see her for a brief second or two then she was gone. After driving around and not finding Beauty I opted for a run over to the Brighton site.
I arrived in Brighton around 8:15am and made 3 trips around the building and found nobody home. I checked the trees for a falcon but was unsuccessful so I figured on such a nice morning Miss Pigott and BST were out enjoying the warm winds. Back downtown to check quick (I had to be somewhere at 9:00am)for Beauty but I was unable to find her. And that’s all she wrote-I ended my watch with the memory of seeing our Beautyful girl in the sky above Xerox which most definitely brought a smile to my face! 🙂
