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| Chat - Tuesday March 27, 2012; It's a Good Eagle Day | |
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| Naturegal | Mar 27 2012, 03:22 PM Post #31 |
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Carol - Here is a cute video of the 2 eaglets at Colorado  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9RGn2jbVFQ&feature=youtu.be |
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| Naturegal | Mar 27 2012, 03:31 PM Post #32 |
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Ozzie - Those flowers are gorgeous, very tropical looking. Kris - What a great idea to use sheep's wool, you and Ed are such good birdie grandparents  Cheryl - Welcome home  can't wait to see some photos of your cruise. Topa - How exciting that the baby shower will be celebrated this weekend, take lots of pics please.  Penny - I can't take the pressure at Norfolk  So sad about the TH chick/egg   
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| lmorton2001 | Mar 27 2012, 05:47 PM Post #33 |
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Sunnyland - How was your grandson's concert/recital last night? I hope he did very well and I am happy that you got to go see him. It's kind of sad that your daughter was "too busy" to let you stay over. Someday she will miss you! 
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| chiquita | Mar 27 2012, 05:47 PM Post #34 |
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Kris...I never knew that you could get sheep's wool for the birds...I just use the lint from my dryer and set bits of it on the bushes for the birds...the sheep's wool sounds like it would be better. Chiquita |
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| Deleted User | Mar 27 2012, 07:42 PM Post #35 |
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 A good evening to you all- Deb - Carole - Penny - KarenSC - Topa - Kris - Cheryl - KLJinOZ - Imorton - Chiquita - Deb - Hope Nest Adoption is successful So sorry for your mom. My sister-in-law had Altheimers and a dear friend of mine has it and it is so incidious. The person just fades away. Carole - All that eagle work to keep everything straight. Thanks so much for the Colorado Video!!!!! I Boo kmarked itPenny - Poor Siobhan Hope she's okay! Pretty RSH. sad about TH again this year. Topa - Hope you have so much joy at the baby shower. Kris - Blue tit so pretty Sheeps wool very clever! Cheryl - Glad you had a good trip! Bet Mia and Wynn are glad you're back! KLJinOZ - Lovely blooms Imorton - Yes, the concert was successful and so enjoyable. Jonathan got a standing ovation some of his past teachers were there and the room was full. He practices sometime 6HRS. a day. So Sad - Got a phone call this evening that my other grandson's wedding and shower has been postponed I selfishly was hoping to see one of my GS's marry while I'm still alive. After all the trouble of getting the correct outfit, I told my daughter she could bury me in it. It's very late here! almost midnight!Guess you all might be asleep already |
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| Artsy Mom | Mar 27 2012, 07:47 PM Post #36 |
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Carol how wonderful for your GS to get a standing ovation from his peers  You must have been bursting with pride I wonder if one of those plant growing bulbs would help keep your souvenir orchid in good health  I think they like humidity too  So sorry the wedding has been postponed as I know you were so looking forward to that event too. I'm sure you will find another occasion to wear your dress. Maybe to another art event 
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| Artsy Mom | Mar 27 2012, 08:35 PM Post #37 |
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Lily the Black Bear – UPDATE March 27, 2012 Lily, Jewel, Donna   Donna - March 21, 2012 With Lily’s radio-collar now sending her location to our computers every 10 minutes, we can “see” what she is doing. Today her locations were clustered in and around a damp open area that may be a source of willow catkins. We’ll check for bear foods and bear sign there as soon as Lily and Faith move on. The area is a third of a mile from their den. Yesterday, they were a half mile from the den.  Donna and yearlings leave the den - March 23, 2012 With Lily and yearling Faith out foraging, we wondered what Donna and her 3 yearlings were up to. It’s been a week since we visited them on the 20th. We found an empty den with Donna’s radio-collar in it. The trail cam at their den showed that Donna and all 3 yearlings came out and left on March 23 (NOTE: date time stamp on trail cam images is incorrect).  Donna's yearlings play - March 22, 2012 In the days before that, the pictures showed the family out playing together at midnight as well as by day. Without a radio-collar, the family’s activities will be a mystery now until we can get a radio-collar back on Donna. We don’t plan on radio-collaring any of Donna’s yearlings. Five of six mothers with yearlings have now left their dens—Lily, Jo, Donna, Braveheart, and Ursula. We hope to check on June soon to see what she and yearlings Aster and Aspen are doing, how far they are from their den, and if the den is flooded.  Jewel rakes bedding - March 27, 2012 Meanwhile, Jewel is raking more bedding into her den. The cubs are still wobbly and tipping over when they walk, so they will likely remain in the den a little longer. Perhaps to make the remaining days as comfortable as possible, Jewel left the den 12 times today and returned several times with bedding. She brought in a big clump of running clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum) that she bit into smaller pieces inside the den, a piece of log that she bit to shreds, and smaller pieces of wood which she also shredded.  Jewel breaks up club moss - March 27, 2012 Video of Jewel and cubs from yesterday is posted on YouTube. You asked which bears we intend to have radio-collared this year. They include the 11 mature female clan members we have monitored for years—Dot (12), Donna (12), June (11), Braveheart (10), Colleen (8), Juliet (8), Cookie (7), Ursula (7), Lily (5), Jo (4), and Jewel (3)—plus the matriarch of the clan, Shadow, for a total of 12 mature females.  Donna plays with yearling - March 21. 2012 One reason we are monitoring these mature females is to determine land tenure and territoriality in this study area where bears have access to supplemental food. The purpose is to compare the data with what we found in a previous study area without supplemental food (Rogers 1987 Effects of food supply and kinship on social behavior, movements, and population dynamics of black bears in northeastern Minnesota). A priority this year will be getting a radio-collar on the matriarch Shadow (25) to document where she fits in.  Donna's yearling pulls down a branch - March 21, 2012 As new yearlings come into the population, we need to make choices about which ones to radio-collar to document how they work into the social system. For this, we must now concentrate mainly on June’s offspring. Our data on movement history and social relationships is most complete for this lineage. We plan to radio-collar Faith and June’s yearling female Aster (if she will let us). This would bring us to 14 radio-collars and give us one collar to hold in reserve for any special need that might arise. If we can collar Victoria we might temporarily collar her to help monitor family break-up.  Donna's yearling plays with branch - March 21, 2012 One of the data sets we’re pulling together for a paper is ‘family break-up’—the behaviors that lead to mothers and yearlings that have played and nursed for more than a year before splitting apart. At family breakup, mothers split from their yearlings and the yearlings usually split from each other. We are finding, as with everything we have studied, that there is great variability in how this happens. With this being the year of mothers with yearlings, we had planned to boost our sample size for this kind of data by temporarily radio-collaring a number of yearlings to monitor during May and June. The data would have increased our sample size for publication. As part of the variability, all members of a family may split at once, yearlings may leave separately, mothers may leave and travel far outside their territory leaving scent trails for males to follow, or a male may join the family and force the mother to choose between him and her terrified yearlings as in the BBC documentary Bearwalker.  One of Donna's yearlings - March 23, 2012 To collar Faith, Aster, and the matriarch Shadow, we must remove radio-collars from the young females we have been studying. We already removed the radio-collar from 2-year-old Shirley— Sharon (2) and Star (3) are the next logical choices. We’ll write more about research topics we are pursuing in future updates. Your thoughtful heartfelt comments on last night's update are very much appreciated and this video by Madelene Ostrowski brought back a flood of good memories. Thank you for all you do. —Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center |
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| Artsy Mom | Mar 27 2012, 09:10 PM Post #38 |
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 RIP PH Here is Jann's video (3:26) ...  PH - Sad News for K10 & K26! The first time I ever saw this happen was while watching Pa Hornby the first year there was a cam on that nest. He jumped up suddenly and looked down in the bowl, walked around, looked some more and then he ate the contents of the egg just before Ma arrived. She was quite perturbed to see the egg shells in the bowl  It is never easy to see these kinds of events but they are going to happen and if the egg suddenly imploded then it was a non viable one.  for the one that is left in both the TH and PH nests.
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| KLJinOz | Mar 27 2012, 09:32 PM Post #39 |
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PH - Sad News for K10 & K26! fingers crossed for the remaining egg. Sorry about the cancelled wedding plans too, but I think you will wear the dress yet!
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| circlescribe | Mar 28 2012, 12:37 AM Post #40 |
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Oh, I'm so sorry to hear of the loss of the PH egg too. Prayers for the one each nest has left.  Penny, about the height of the nests: it is as recommended by the Bird sites, at "eye level" for these tiny Birds. The area is well protected in an elevated bed and hopefully the nest will be safe. The thorny branchy bush it's in is also a good barrier. There's been plenty of competition for the real estate. Also those Coconut shells are sold at pet stores and are filled with a suet, seed, fruit mix. They all love it.I'd never heard of Sheeps' Wool for Birds until the neighbor who gave us the nest box told us about it and that they gathered it from the Sheep fields. We did a little of that but then found the big bag of it on eBay, which was much easier than hunting the fields for enough suitable tufts.
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