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Chat - Wednesday, December 7th, 2011.; Winter is on the way!
Topic Started: Dec 7 2011, 04:55 AM (386 Views)
Artsy Mom
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<::: Pot Plant Owl wins International Owl Award <:::

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We have just heard that Pot Plant Owl has won the Lady Gray'l Award. This is an award given out at the International Owl Festival in March every year in Houston, Minnesota. This is what the award is for:

The Lady Gray'l Award is named after a Great Gray Owl who was hatched in 1984. Thanks to caring biologists with an interesting plan, that same owl who would have starved as the runt of the brood. Lady Gray'l spent a 21-year career touching the lives of untold thousands of people and giving researchers new insights into the life of the Great Gray Owl. Lady Gray'l spent nearly her entire lifetime living and working with Dr. Bob Nero, raising money for owl research through their hundreds of school visits and day-long stints in malls.

Thanks to Gray'l, Great Gray Owls were plucked from relative obscurity to become the provincial bird of Manitoba.

Lady Gray'l flew from this world on October 13, 2005, and this award was established to honor her accomplishments by recognizing other owls following in her footsteps.

Pot Plant Owl and her family hold a very special place in our hearts. She has done so much in our lives, and it's amazing to know that 'her' reach is now worldwide - enough for her to win a special International Owl of the Year award.

The Pot Plant Owl story has reached thousands of people around the globe, instilling in them an awareness, not only about owls, but about garden birds and Nature in general too. Thanks to our sweet Pot Plant Owl, the PPO Facebook page and Africam's webcam have brought joy to thousands of people daily. The PPO webcam was followed in schools as part of a set curriculum. The wetland where PPO hunts has been saved (to date) from development with a 28 000 strong petition, and PPO campaigns to save ALL wetlands in South Africa. PPO is now publicising the plight of the Pels Fishing Owl, whose breeding sites in the southern Kruger Park are threatened by a hotel development.

I speak on behalf of Pot Plant Owl when I say a huge big THANK YOU for this award. I look forward to receiving the award in Houston, Minnesota on PPO's behalf. (Regret, she can't personally attend due to family commitments, but has asked me to accept the award for her).

To USA PPO fans - hope to see you at the 'International Festival of Owls' in March next year!
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Santa Catalina Island

Does anyone know where this picture was taken?

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*Banning house lodge in two harbors
*At the Isthmus about the Banning House?
*Sure look like Az but I think Banning house is correct
* It looks like Two Harbors in the distance.
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I better makes some track's out of here..
BBL :}^

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Gibbon pack in Yellowstone. Photo courtesy of U.S. National Park Service.
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Jill rofl rofl rofl rofl That would be my DH except the side of the house and the garage!

Again we had ice
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And birds in the garden this morning at school. I believe they are goldfinches.
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That is such a good pic of Kris :)

Hmmm gonna try to get up early this Sat. to witness the lunar eclipse. Interesting!


Edited by KareninSoCali, Dec 7 2011, 11:48 AM.
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TODAY'S UPDATE ON NX... :D

December 7 update

Dr. Dave reports that NX continues to remain bright and alert. She did eat last night, though not all of her food — the untouched food contained her evening medications. Dr. Dave and team will be catching NX up tonight to ensure she receives her medications. The vet staff will also get a current weight on her, using an XXL “raptor wrapper” that someone recently made for the Center!
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NX is no dumb bird! rofl Unfortunately, she doesn't know what is good for her ;)

Warning--Sort of graphic pic in this article so read with caution :(((
http://www.audublog.org/?p=6384


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San Diego Zoo panda cam now in HD! No more grainy pandas ;)

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandacam/
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Karen, that pic was five years ago but now with some greys and lines later I'll take the compliment. Thx. :P

We have Goldfinches and other Finches here too, but the intercontinental differences in genetics make it hard to know which is which. They seem to have significant variances. :blink:

These are our Goldfinches and Green Finches, both of which come to our feeders:

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Green Finch
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And we get really excited when we see this Greater Woodpecker on the Peanut feeder. We see him every couple of days.
This from out the front window.
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And a closer cropping.
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Kris...the green finch looks a lot like this one I saw at school the other day. A well fed one :D

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Dec 7 2011, 12:05 PM
NX is no dumb bird! rofl Unfortunately, she doesn't know what is good for her ;)


NX is just like a dog or cat, can't fool them. rofl

Continued prayers for David, Lins and family :candle:
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Silent Night
It was Christmas Eve in the Austrian Alps. At the newly constructed Church of St. Nicholas in Oberndorf, Father Joseph Mohr prepared for the midnight service. He was distraught because the church organ was broken, ruining prospects for that evening’s carefully planned music. But Father Joseph was about to learn that our problems are God’s opportunities, that the Lord causes all things to work together for good to those who love Him.

It came into Father Joseph’s mind to write a new song, one that could be sung organless. Hastily, he wrote the words, “Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright . . . .” Taking the text to his organist, Franz Gruber, he explained the situation and asked Franz to compose a simple tune.

That night, December 24, 1818, “Silent Night” was sung for the first time as a duet accompanied by guitar . . . Were it not for a broken organ, there would never have been a “Silent Night.”
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LEST WE FORGET! REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR! <3

DIDN'T GET HERE YESTERDAY. TODAY POURING RAIN SUPPOSED TO TURN INTO SNOW
TOWARD MORNING! GETTING COLDER!

DEB - BEAUTIFUL SCENE / INTERESTING FISHEYE / FUNNY CARTOONS!HOPE YOU'LL BE
ABLE TO RELAX SOON! KNOW IT HAS TO BE A SAD TME TOO! YOU SEEMED TO HAVE A
NICE BOSS THAT YOU COULD DO YOUR THING AS WELL AS WORK. HOPE YOUR NEW
SITUATION IS COMPATIBLE!

CAROLE - PRETTY PITURE OF THE SNOW! / THE RED TAIL SEEMS TO REALLY LIKE
THAT PERCH / IMPRESSIVE DECORAH EAGLES!

CHERYL - YOUR MIA AND WYNN SURE HAVE YOU WELL TRAINED rofl rofl

TOPA - LOVE THE MOUNTAIN VIEW / DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT WIND MACHINES!
NICE PHOTO OF CATALINA. CUTE EAGLE WITH YOUR RUDOLPH! GLAD ALL YOUR
IRDS ARE DOING WELL!

PENNY - CAN'T BELIEVE THE OWL AND RED TAIL FOUGHT!

KRIS - NICE PHOTO OF YOU! YOUR FINCHES ARE SUCH A NICE COLOR

KARENSC - PRAYRS FOR DAVID TO HAVE GOOD RESULTS AND THAT HIS PROBLEM
CAN BE RESOLVED!

JILL - ALWAYS LOVE THE "SILENT NIGHT" STORY

WELL NEARLY 9:30PM HERE GOING TO TRY AND GET SOME COOKIES BAKED ,
THAT I HAVE MIXED ALREADY. DON'T DO TOO MANY ANY MORE!
SO TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!
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G'day Peeps, flapping in late, feel better today and had to attend funeral at a Chevra Kaddisha for the mother of one of Bob's long time friends. Apparently Sylvia used to feed Bob a lot when he was in University with Peter and a young single fella. Very moving eulogy.

love the Panda web cam, thanks Karen.

Bummer about the down day for WC, its still raining here in Sydney but wind has dropped which does not bode well for sailing tomorrow!

Lovely photo of you Kris, and I love reading about your walking sticks. Do you still have them? Your bird feeders are well placed for you to see the birdies well too!

That is one SMART and FEISTY NX BE!

Terrible about the open pipe. Similar problem with a lot of boat mainsails booms too, must have them blocked off to keep the small birds out of them or you end up with a nest in it!

Catch up later Peeps, my Rachel is in LA today and arrives home tomorrow, I cant wait to give her a big ole fat hug.

Oh, and speaking of lunar eclipse, did you read about the newly found black holes? Dont worry, they are 336 million light years away. But awesome!

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/big-bad-black-hole-discovery-is-einsteins-worst-nightmare-20111207-1oj48.html

Lest We Forget ~ and the aftermath. A lot of Japanese Citizens were cruelly treated without reparation at the end of the war through no fault of their own.


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Lily the Black Bear - Update December 7, 2011

A day of no news


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Jason installing den cam in Lucky's den -- Nov 21, 2011

A day of no news—just writing—and waiting to hear back from WildEarth.TV in South Africa about hooking up the Den Cam at their end.

Thank you for all you do.

—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center
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