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Chat - Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Topic Started: Dec 21 2011, 06:28 AM (905 Views)
KareninSoCali
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In 3 hrs. and 15 mins. I will officially be on vacation! :**: :**: I just might see a nap in my future today rofl Was very hard getting up this morning and I overslept by 15 mins. OOPS!

I have kids for only 1 hr. and 20 mins. of that time, also, as the late start kinders are early start today :) So I will turn up the Christmas tunes and do the happy dance! :D I love my job but its stressful and I need a vacation.

On the good news front, my former site leader and friend, Mike, that has CF is doing better and they think he might be able to be home from the hospital before Christmas :)^ He had given up last week and was too exhausted to fight anymore so this is really great news!


Edited by KareninSoCali, Dec 21 2011, 06:33 AM.
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Today is the 1st day of Hanukkah and tonight we will light 2 :candle: :candle:

It's official... it will be a pretty green/brown Christmas here :P We do have snow on the ground, but in past years it has been at least 2 feet deep and very cold. This year it is less than an inch even though we have had a few storms and had to shovel. Highs of -4C/28F for today with possible light :flk: :flk: which will make everything look clean and sparkly fresh :D
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Image by Daniel J. Cox

By Lynne Warren for National Geographic magazine

Winged lords of northern forests, the big raptors fly noiselessly, hunt in light and dark, and can hear a field mouse stir under the snow.

These owls don't just pounce, they plunge. With ice-pick talons tucked under their chins, great grays hurtle headfirst into deep snow to snatch voles—diving with such power that they can shatter snow crust thick enough to hold a 180-pound person. They locate hidden prey with the help of large facial disks that funnel sound to their ears. When the plunge succeeds, as it did for this Manitoba owl, the hunter wriggles out of the snow then carries the prey to a safe spot for eating. This hunting technique gives great grays an advantage over other predatory birds, many of which must migrate to areas where lighter snows leave prey more accessible.

You're looking at a very aggressive bird," says Jim Duncan. When a great gray flares its facial feathers to expose the full length of its dagger-sharp beak, "it's like a snarling dog showing his fangs." From 30 feet away photographer Dan Cox used a remotely operated camera to record this adult patrolling the Montana clearing where its chicks were hiding. Parents attack anything—bear, lynx, unwary hiker—that gets too close to their young. What does a wallop from a great gray feel like? "Like being whacked by a two-by-four with nails sticking out of it,"

In winter adult great grays consume up to a third of their weight in rodents daily. Females in particular pack on reserves to sustain them through more competitive summer months. "It's as if there's a big winter sale on voles, and great gray owls are the only customers in the store," says Canadian conservation biologist Jim Duncan.

Researchers estimate that 20,000 to 100,000 great grays live in Canada and the U.S., with similar numbers in Europe and Asia. In North America. Northern populations of great grays are highly nomadic, flying hundreds of miles as vole numbers boom and crash in different areas.

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Great Grey Owls are the provincial bird of Manitoba :)^
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VIDEO OF SEQUOYAH MOM LAYING EGG #2
I found it quite funny as while she was in labour, Dad was in the nest eating :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3WAJIOD0w

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Dad just flew in to relieve Mom........
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Good morning, everybody!

Penny, I had already collected my code for this elf graphic. Good timing along with the owl information you have posted.

I think we are going to have a green Christmas, too. It's wet and foggy out here.

Enjoy your well-earned vacation, Karen. The schools here are still going right up to Friday I believe. That is fantastic news about Mike.

Two eggs at Sequoyah now, always great to hear egg updates!
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Whooper Update: There was too much wind and rain for a flight today.
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Enjoy these special days with your loved ones!


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Topa Topa Hikers
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Happy Hannukah to all my Cruzer friends
that celebrate the holiday!

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Hi Michele! :}^

Artsy, That is an amazing photo of the owl in flight. wow :ok:

Karen, Enjoy your vacation!
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Savta Topa Cathy...the little doggies in the Hanukkah stoles are adorable! Posed so nicely!

Cheryl..the Star of David Hanukkah cookies in your sig line look so pretty! Are those some you made?

Love all the owl pics and graphics today :) Besides being able to hold the owlet a couple yrs. ago during their banding, I got to be up close and personal with a snowy owl at the Wild Animal Park during a school field trip once. The keeper had it fly so that we could "hear" the silence. Amazing! And so beautiful!
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I just posted this on my DIL Stacy's FB wall,
she posted this back
" mom, ur not going to believe this but this is my first
cousin who is singing the solo!!! how funny is that! thanks for sending it! "

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Strange looking eagle at Davenport/Alcoa nest this morning :P Posted Image
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Topa - Just loved, loved, loved <3 the choir singing and what a small world it is as Stacy would say!

Penny - Awesome owl photo :)^

Karen - For Mike :candle: may he improve each day :X:
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