By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Well we were forecast to get lake effect snow on and off starting last night thru Tuesday. I haven’t seen any snow yet but it was  a cool 16 degrees fahrenheit(-9 celcius) when I left the house at 7:00am and the sun shone bright once it rose up out of its slumbers.

This morning I found Beauty right away again but she wasn’t on the OCSR building like yesterday-today she was under the northeast wing of the Times Square building and she had breakfast up there.

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I was parked on the Broad St. Bridge next to Falcon Watcher Central until Beauty decided to move back closer to the wing where I couldn’t really see her too well so I went to the hole to observe her.

Still, it wasn’t the best spot as you can see in the photo above so I went around to Irving Place which is the alley that runs from Main St. to Broad St. behind the Times Square building. Unfortunately Beauty had left while I was enroute so I drove on and while stopped on Main St. by the Radisson found her on the northeast side of OCSR. She was on the top ibeam looking north with her Beautyful back to me.

Deciding to check the Brighton Site(BS) I left her after 15 minutes figuring she would be there for a while as her meal digested. On my way driving down the Court St. Bridge I noticed the locks were closed on the Genesee River forcing the water to spill quite forcefully on the opposite side.

Locks on the left-spillway on the right

Arriving at BS around 8:35am I found BST on the east extension preening away while perched on his favorite top floor south facing window.

In the next hour and a half I observed BST do lots of preening having a feather float down and stick to his head. When a crow flew overhead he had something to say about it and eventually he settled in for some napping.

I left him around 10:00am to check downtown for Beauty before ending my watch. Pigott did not join us today while I was there. I found Beauty on the southeast side of OCSR top ibeam basking in the sun-2 things that make me smile! 🙂

Click on the links below for more pics and videos from todays watch

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWrUxg

http://youtu.be/KzSCnzdENLo
http://youtu.be/XnI5RNCVk8U
http://youtu.be/4MGX0IVOXGc
http://youtu.be/zp6MgB_ECkg

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