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| Chat - Friday May 20, 2011; Good Eagle Day | |
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| Harpo516 | May 20 2011, 03:00 AM Post #1 |
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     NOTE click on Cruz above to learn how you can help the eagles! Be a part of the 2011 Nest Adoption Challenge |
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| Harpo516 | May 20 2011, 03:24 AM Post #2 |
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 psssst you could have the opportunity to name me! visit the 2nd topic at IWS Eagle Forum for more information - click on my photo above to go there   NAC will end on June 3, 2011SPECIAL NOTES: If you donate at least $25 - you will receive a bonus: you will be able to adopt the nest of your choice and receive a color photo and certificate AND: Dr. Sharpe will be providing an incubated "fake" egg from a bald eagle nest from the time that IWS was incubating/hatching the eggs to assist the eagles as part of the restoration project as one of the items you can choose in the NAC drawings! Remember - you have to be in it to win it and every single penny does indeed count! Be sure to ask for Nest Adoption Credit when you make your donation or purchase your wing bling or become a supporting member ...... it all counts!  |
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| Harpo516 | May 20 2011, 03:25 AM Post #3 |
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reserved a new NAC item has arrived - I'll post it in a bit |
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| Harpo516 | May 20 2011, 03:42 AM Post #4 |
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 Hi Eagle Friends! I'm so ready for the weekend ..... if I could figure out a way to stay home today - I would  but I can't so I won't  Hope one and all have a great friday with saturday peeking around the corner wonderful about the rescue yesterday and that indeed the chick got to stay in the nest - very scary there for a bit  ...... you never know! so glad it worked outand our chicklets just grow and grow ..... 
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| Harpo516 | May 20 2011, 03:56 AM Post #5 |
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Eaglepedia Revisited May 17, 2007 The nestlings will have grown all their feathers by the time they are about 7 weeks old and they can stand and stretch, feeling the air rise around their wings! The eaglets will begin to experience "air time" as those air currents lift them briefly off the nest. They will turn into the wind, stretch their wings and tail and flap. Soon after (8-9 weeks of age), they will branch, hopping around the tree near the nest. They will eventually glide to nearby trees and then take flight! AND April 18, 2008 The first downy feathers are kept for about three weeks; after that a second downy plumage replaces the first. This secondary down plumage is long, thick and woolly, and a darker sooty gray color. When this happens the legs also start to turn the recognizable yellow. By the seventh or eight week of life juvenile plumage has replaced the secondary down and within the next several weeks will fully develop. Juvenile eagles have a bluish black beak and dark brown eyes.  TH Chick/2008 - Harpo  WE Fostering - IWS  4 week old chick (not CIE) AND May 9, 2008 The eaglet's fluffy down begins to change into feathers. The eagles can't fly successfully until their feathers have completely grown in. First flights can be dangerous. New flight feathers can be seen coming in when the eaglet is stretching his wings, but he is still just fuzz underneath. Black juvenile feathers begin to grow in to enable the juvenile eagle to fly. While downy feathers are excellent insulators, they are useless as air foils, and must be replaced with juvenile feathers before an eaglet can take its first flight, some 10 to 13 weeks after hatching.  http://www.inhf.org/eaglediaries04-may.htm Visit Eaglepedia DISCLAIMER: Information here has been gathered in good faith from the internet and cannot be guaranteed to be totally accurate. |
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| Harpo516 | May 20 2011, 04:23 AM Post #6 |
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sitting here, listening to the bird calling in my backyard - oh gosh look at the time - gotta run check back when I'm at work 
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| Naturegal | May 20 2011, 05:10 AM Post #7 |
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   BLACKWATER.......................................................................CALTRANS.............  CAROLINA........................................................................COLORADO..............  DAVENPORT.........................................................................DECORAH................  DELTA 2.................................................................................DUKE...................  HORNBY..............................................................................MISSOURI..................  NORFOLK....................................  SYDNEY .....................................................................WHITE ROCK...............
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| Naturegal | May 20 2011, 05:20 AM Post #8 |
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Deb - Wonderful promo, you rock!   Cheryl - Hope Mia is better today, poor little puppy   Ozzie - You sure have a busy weekend ahead, hope BoB is better and can enjoy all the festivities with you. Charlene was here for dinner last night and she was talking about your slideshow from Viet Nam (which you posted here). We were laughing about some of the food  and both agreed we would never even try to taste some of it  Penny - Once again  for your coverage of the Sydney rescue. My DD Susan called early this morning to tell me about the TV news coverage of Flyer, she was so impressed with David Hancock and the whole team.Elaine -  
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| bette | May 20 2011, 06:16 AM Post #9 |
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Addendum to EAGLELAND Blackwater - 3 eaglets hatched 2/19, 2/21, 2/24 (12+ weeks old) - they should be fledging soon!!! Carolina - 1 eaglet hatched 3/4 - (11 weeks old today) Kinsey was removed to the hacktower 4/21 and joined two other eaglets - hacktower gates opened 5/12 and the other two have fledged, but still return for food - Kinsey outside on the perch this morning Norfolk - 3 eaglets hatched 3/13, 3/15, 3/17 - (~ 9 weeks old) banded 4/21 - removed from nest 4/27 Missouri - 1 eaglet Morgan hatched 3/20 - (8+ weeks old) CalTrans - 2 eaglets hatched 3/21, 3/24 - (9+ weeks old) Davenport, Iowa - 1 eaglet hatched 3/25 - (8 weeks old today) Colorado - 2 eaglets hatched 3/28, 3/31 - (7+ weeks old) Decorah, Iowa - 3 eaglets hatched 4/2, 4/3, 4/7 - (6+ weeks old) Duke - 2 eaglets hatched 4/6, 4/9 - (~ 6 weeks old) Delta 2 - 2 chicks hatched 4/11, 4/12 - (5+ weeks old) Sydney - 3 chicks hatched 4/14, 4/16, 4/19 - (~ 5 weeks old) White Rock - 2 chicks hatched 4/19, 4/21 - (4+ weeks old) Hornby - 2 chicks hatched 4/28, 5/1 - 22 & 19 days old - Alexandra & David CATALINA Nests Seal Rocks - two chicks hatched between 3/18 - 3/21 - (~ 9 weeks old) - banded 5/16 - K-07 (F) and K-08 (M) Rattlesnake - two eaglets hatched 3/26, 3/29 - (7+ weeks old) Banding is scheduled for Tuesday 5/24 Two Harbors - one eaglet hatched 3/27 - (7+ weeks old) Banding is scheduled for Sunday 5/22!!! and we get to watch! West End - triplets hatched 4/4, 4/5, 4/7 - (6+ weeks old) SANTA CRUZ Nests Sauces Canyon - 1 chick hatched 4/9 - (6 weeks old tomorrow) Pelican Harbor Pair's New Nest - we know there is at least one chick approx. ~ 6 weeks old per Dr Sharpe's helo survery on 4/6 - but hatch date(s) is unknown NOTE: Please feel free to let me know if I have missed any Nest info |
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| Harpo516 | May 20 2011, 07:01 AM Post #10 |
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me either - I'd be hard pressed to try some of those foods  sunny cloudy sunny cloudy ---- what a day! boss has arrived they totaled his car from last week's accident - the girl hit him on driver's side wheel area - bent the car every which way - apparently she hit it in just the right spot - wow it's not even a year old so he was shopping around yesterday trying to figure out what to do .........I really want to go into the City tonight for dinner ......... if I run home after work - tend to Trin and get myself to Mineola - I should be able to make it to the City in reasonable time - the problem - I know how to get to ES from Penn Sta. but I'm not sure about changing trains in Jamaica to get to Wall Street via train/subway I can do it with ES but never done it by myself and I want to surprise him so don't want to ask for his help. Hmmmmm maybe I'll stick with what I know if I do indeed decide to go ......
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| Artsy Mom | May 20 2011, 07:16 AM Post #11 |
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 CruzersThe  is shining, the birdies and cats are singing, it's going up to 26C/79F so I couldn't be happier even though I still have more weeds to pull  Hope your day will be just as fine wherever you are. |
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| Artsy Mom | May 20 2011, 07:51 AM Post #12 |
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Good Morning Sidney Nest Family   Just in case anyone missed the rescue of Flyer yesterday here are the videos: Rescuing Flyer – Part 1: Laying the Mats Rescuing Flyer – Part 2: Preparing the Crane Rescuing Flyer – Part 3: Removing Flyer from the Nest Rescuing Flyer – Part 4: Cleaning & Adjusting the Cams Rescuing Flyer - Part 5: Returning Flyer to the Nest Edited by Artsy Mom, May 20 2011, 07:56 AM.
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| Harpo516 | May 20 2011, 08:02 AM Post #13 |
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"With just over 2 weeks remaining in the 2011 Nest Adoption Challenge, supporters have now raised $7264 and adopted 7 nests. Thanks to everyone for their support." Hmmmmmmmmm time to clean under my sofa cushions - wonder if there's any loose change in the washer - the car, there's always odd change in there ........ where's my little "eagle" piggy bank - time to empty him for our eagles! I hope I win an IWS tour for 2012 Maybe I can win that "dirty" egg I'd love to adopt a nest - hmmm maybe TH Although I really like that eagle tile which is on the list to pick fromwhat oh what to choose - better get my $$ and pennies to Peter soon June 3 is a comin'
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| Artsy Mom | May 20 2011, 08:14 AM Post #14 |
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I just couldn't beleive it when I first saw this Danish director Lars von Trier had a meltdown in front of the Cannes press corps on Wednesday that rivaled the destruction of planet Earth in his own film 'Melancholia'.  Kirsten Dunst is squirming sitting beside this Danish film director as he talks at his Cannes film conference. What a stupid boor  Lars Von Trier's 'Nazi' gaffe at Cannes Film Festival (2:16) Lars Von Trier is banned from Cannes for his Hitler Remarks |
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| cdn-cdn | May 20 2011, 09:19 AM Post #15 |
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Good afternoon, everybody. Cool banner for Eagleland, Carole and Bette. I'll be sure to watch the videos, Penny, likely later this evening. Thank you again for posting the photos and the video links. Deb, I hope you are able to surprise ES, that would be so nice and romantic, too. Your presentation today was such a treat with all the eagle pairs and the Cruzers being featured. Mia is almost back to her regular self. She was perfectly normal yesterday, then we put them in separate crates while we went to help Ian (new lawn mower) and Allison (no idea what her plants are, needed trimming). We didn't put the puppies together because we weren't sure about the biting from Mia. They are fine when they sleep together at night, but during the day we were hesitant. Anyway she hates the crate, always whines and cries and howls. Wynn doesn't mind. I really think she made herself sick, either from being in the crate or from being separated from him, or both. We rushed and were only gone for an hour. She was sick repeatedly right up until bedtime. The sun is out but we'll have to do some staggered gardening work with one of us inside to watch the dogs, jeepers. Ian and Allison's place looks great and ours doesn't. How did that happen? 
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