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| DAILY CHAT, Sunday, May 1, 2011; GOOD MORNING CRUZERS AND HAPPY MAY DAY ! | |
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| circlescribe | May 1 2011, 10:31 AM Post #16 |
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Penny, thanks for the info on Norfolk Mom's memorial today. I hope they post a video of it on YT.  I forgot how many pics I had of Norfolk Mom, Dad and their chicks, until I started looking through my folders.    Tomorrow is yet another Bank Holiday here, for May Day this time. They really take it seriously here. I found this timely video on YT from Camelot, one of my favorite Arthurian films. It's Vanessa Redgrave at her most dewy and beautiful singing The Lusty Month of May.  We took a bike ride today to an arboretum and a wood a few miles away. It was so green and lush with Bluebells, and sprouting Bracken Ferns. A perfect way to spend May Day. Queen Anne's Lace is blooming everywhere! Ed's been trying to recover since we got back. This is one pic of many.  Penny, I just saw your comment. Thanks for the cheers!  Yes, an Eagle too! 
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| Artsy Mom | May 1 2011, 10:45 AM Post #17 |
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Ma Hornby just arrived with a    They are both chortling eagle calls to announce the impending arrival of their newest  The fish is still flip flopping around 
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| Artsy Mom | May 1 2011, 11:02 AM Post #18 |
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Another quick feeding and egg roll and back to incubating...boy this is taking a long time  That egg has two large pips and a long crack in it already....the shell must be super thick  
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| fancycatnip | May 1 2011, 11:21 AM Post #19 |
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 OH, COME ON ! I know you are in there! Come with me to :http://s11.zetaboards.com/IWS_Eagle_Forum/index/ scroll down to the Daily Chat and check out how YOU can help me help the eagles of Catalina and Santa Cruz. Started by the "Cruzers" (members of the Eagle Discussion Forum) in 2007, the annual Nest Adoption Challenge helps support IWS' bald eagle restoration programs, including the web cams. A Level 1 Nest Adoption is typically a $1000 donation and includes an invitation for 3-4 people to spend a day with an IWS biologist on Catalina Island, photos of your adopted chicks, and an adoption certificate, among other benefits. Each breeding season while there are eaglets in the nest the "Cruzers" and any other eagle lovers pool their resources to adopt nests. They then randomly distribute the adoption benefits among those who have contributed. For instance, if you contributed $25 to the Challenge, you could be drawn to receive the Catalina visit. During the Challenge, we will apply the tax-deductible portion of any contribution to IWS (eg. t-shirts, sweatshirts, eagle adoptions, memberships, ...) towards the Challenge total. Just make sure to let us know that you want your contribution to go towards the 2011 Nest Adoption Challenge (NAC) in the "Add Special Instructions to the Seller" section prior to final checkout – you can use PayPal without having an account. If you forget to add instructions, you can email them to sharpe@iws.org. There is no minimum contribution, but your chances of being drawn increase with the total amount of your contribution(s) made during the fundraiser As an extra incentive, anyone that contributes at least $25 will receive the photo and adoption certificate for the nest of their choice. |
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| fancycatnip | May 1 2011, 11:23 AM Post #20 |
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MANY, MANY THANK YOUS to all who posted the lovely things about Mom Norfolk, our Legacy Lady.  It sure is a loss, but the babies are safe at WCV and LOOKING GOOD I might add...the webcam is back up and all is well. |
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| Artsy Mom | May 1 2011, 11:41 AM Post #21 |
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The wind is howling at Decorah today   Ma is making sure her stay hunkered down
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| Artsy Mom | May 1 2011, 12:40 PM Post #22 |
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Here is my yard yesterday and today        I hope all the bulbs just poking up are going to survive
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| Artsy Mom | May 1 2011, 12:50 PM Post #23 |
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Alexandra up for a poop shoot and a feeding   The pip looks larger
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| circlescribe | May 1 2011, 12:58 PM Post #24 |
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Anna thank you for the inspiring NAC promos today!  Nicely done! Bette your Eagle coverage was wonderful today as well! With Carole out of town you have your hands full and are doing a superb job! Penny what a difference a day made in your yard!  It's May! When is Winter going to leave you alone?  Thinking of Norfolk Mom today, and have been so heartbroken since her tragic loss. I found this among the many pics I'd saved of her. I've posted it before since struck me at the time that it seemed an eerie image of an Eagle shadow cast across her. It was two years ago, so not an ominous foreboding, but I thought at the time a sign invoking the Great Eagle Spirit she represented.  
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| circlescribe | May 1 2011, 01:14 PM Post #25 |
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On the occasion of Beltane I wanted to share this historical Crop Circle known as the "Beltane Wheel" because it appeared on Beltane in 1998 in a flowering Canola field. It had amazing numerology, symbology, and spiritual references in the design and placement of it adjacent to ancient Silbury Hill. Silbury Hill is a short drive from where we are and is the oldest manmade pyramid in Europe at about 5,000 years old. The lines in the center and from the parallel tractor lines in the formation are from people walking into the standing crop, and damaging it.     |
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| Harpo516 | May 1 2011, 01:19 PM Post #26 |
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just back from making our call at Bev's home - we saw Carole & Alan - all are well but it's been a long day with the services this AM Carole says  and thank you for your thoughts and prayers
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| Artsy Mom | May 1 2011, 01:36 PM Post #27 |
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Do you know if Carole and Alan are sitting Shiva for the next 7 days at her SIL's Deb? |
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| fancycatnip | May 1 2011, 02:26 PM Post #28 |
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COME FLY WITH US  FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW: http://s11.zetaboards.com/IWS_Eagle_Forum/index/ scroll down to Daily Chat, Sunday, May 1, 2011 to see how YOU can help us help IWS.  WE NEED YOUR HELP ! We need donations to help IWS adopt more nests and U CAN HELP! You have read about the gifts given for donations..no matter how large or small. . Did you see something that you would like to own? We are asking you PLEASE help us! We are one month in and have 2 months to go in our 2011 Nest Adoption Campaign. You have plenty of time to save up some 'Do Re Mi' and send to IWS at P O Box 1104, Arcata, CA 95518; by credit card to sharp@iws.org; by PayPal ( you do not need a PayPal account). Just be sure to mention NAC 2011 in your message.  WHAT A COUNTRY ! WHAT A WONDERFUL BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY! AND THIS COUNTRY HAS THE EAGLE AS THE NATIONAL SYMBOL! How fitting is that? Please join us today in helping IWS to help our eagles. THANK YOU |
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| Harpo516 | May 1 2011, 02:37 PM Post #29 |
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I think thru Thurs Penny |
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| Artsy Mom | May 1 2011, 03:22 PM Post #30 |
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Lily the Black Bear - Update May 1, 2011 – 3:53 PM CDT Lily is her old self!   red maple buds that Hope was feeding on It’s like a miracle. It’s like waking up from a bad dream. She had looked so bad. Now she’s her old self. Her appetite is back. She looks good and alert. She has energy. She was the same with us as ever. We didn’t know what to expect when we checked on her. We were prepared for the worst. We took a radio-collar to put on Hope, if she would. In our relief about Lily, we didn’t think to check her nipples for milk and we didn’t even think to snap a picture. We futilely concentrated on radio-collaring Hope. Hope is a girl who knows what she doesn’t want. She anticipates our every move. Will she ever change her mind? We remember the old saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” We will try again. We didn’t actually see Faith, but we heard her and Lily hurried off in response to her cries. Studies of Lily, Hope, and Faith will continue. After our visit with Lily and Hope we checked out their last bed site to see if we could find any clues. No clues to Lily’s illness, but we did find the ground around the tree littered with red maple branches covered with bursting buds. Yesterday when we checked on the family at this same bed site, we spotted Hope high in the red pine pawing at branches of a deciduous tree. Our attention was on Lily so we didn’t think more of it. Now we know the tree she was pawing was a red maple and she was likely feeding on the swollen buds. Last year green-up was 2 weeks early. Aspen leaves were bursting on April 18. This year green-up is late. Today we have temperatures below freezing and snow flurries. What this will mean for the wild foods this summer remains to be seen. A good idea came out of the Lily worries. The Education Outreach Team suggested developing a lesson plan on dealing with grief. Al Burda of Pennsylvania was the lucky winner of Carol Decker’s beautiful drawing of Lily and Hope. Thank you to all who so generously participated, to Carol Decker for the print, and to Team Bear and Patrick McKibbage for making the drawing possible. In the Readers Digest contest to win money for Ely, we are holding 6th place, voting like mad as people try to catch up or stay ahead of us. The link to vote 10 times in a row each day through May 16 is here. In the Chase contest to win money for the International Wolf Center, you have us solidly in 3rd place with only 3 days to go. This is the contest where we can vote only once through May 4. To vote, go to this link and click “Like.” Then go to this link and register your vote for the International Wolf Center. The petition to name the black bear Minnesota’s state mammal has 1,308 votes and is here. Thank you for all you are doing. —Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center |
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