By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was 14 degrees fahrenheit (-10 celcius) when I left for my watch this morning with light snow in the forecast for later today thru Tuesday.

I arrived downtown at 7:05am and found Beauty immediately on the south corner top ibeam of OCSR. It was still somewhat dark out so I left the Broad St. Bridge to get closer parking on Graves St. which is next to Aqueduct Park and across Main St. from the OCSR building.

After a few minutes Beauty moved over off the corner to the east and had to spread her wings to keep from slipping off the edge as she mis-stepped. I guess she wasn’t quite awake yet. lol

20 minutes later she flew across the river over the Radisson Hotel and quickly out of view.  10 minutes later she showed up on the Times Square building under the northeast wing.

I parked by the stairs on the Broad St. Bridge which we call Falcon Watcher Central. The Beautyful one and I spent the next 2 hours together as she preened and preened and then preened some more. I guess she was dirty! 🙂 Lately Beauty has been on the move a lot so this was a nice change of pace.

I left her to go check the Brighton Site(BS) as it was getting near the time for me to call it a watch. I didn’t find any falcons at BS initially so I went to Tim Hortons quick. As I was pulling into the driveway I noticed CarolP behind me. She stopped on the west side to have a look around and I went to the east side finding BST on his favorite south facing top window ledge on the east extension.

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BST was walking and moving around – a nice change from the sleepy state he’s usually in when I visit him.

Carol came around to the east side we chatted a little bit and then I was off. Another morning watch in the books and it actually included sweet glorious sunshine which painted a smile on this watchers face!  🙂

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