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| Chat - Sunday April 1, 2012; Another Wonderful Eagle Day | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 1 2012, 03:49 AM (718 Views) | |
| circlescribe | Apr 1 2012, 11:21 AM Post #16 |
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Penny, that vegan Passover menu sounds and looks delicious.  And, I think your DH has impeccable taste re: JCS. I can't adequately express how much I've enjoyed that production in all its forms over the years. On the Loch of Lowes front: Lady is giving Kim Catrall a run for her money in the Cougar category!  Lady's usual mate, who heroically helped her survive a terrible illness in 2010, has not yet returned from his migration but that's not stopping her from making the most of the young male who has been there to fill in for him. And, it seems that these Ospreys might give the Eagles a lesson or two in the art of "Eagle Sutra". Her new partner doesn't seem at all as "time warped" and Lady seems to really appreciate it. 
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| Harpo516 | Apr 1 2012, 11:27 AM Post #17 |
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| Artsy Mom | Apr 1 2012, 02:15 PM Post #18 |
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 Screen capture property of NBG and WVEC  This may really help because Pa seems to be off his usual form since DT came back  Failed Mating Attempt from this morning (:49) Edited by Artsy Mom, Apr 1 2012, 02:31 PM.
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| Artsy Mom | Apr 1 2012, 02:49 PM Post #19 |
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Pa Norfolk was trying out the nest cup waiting for #3 to come home  Then he left....too many  Paparazzi maybe  
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| Harpo516 | Apr 1 2012, 04:01 PM Post #20 |
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 Thank you for your help for the Channel Island Bald Eagles..... 
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| Artsy Mom | Apr 1 2012, 05:02 PM Post #21 |
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WHAT AN AWESOME START TO THE 2012 NAC Deb !!!  We're off to the races for the Channel Island  and their nests 
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| Harpo516 | Apr 1 2012, 05:48 PM Post #22 |
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 We were mostly at Long Beach Boardwalk today doing some caching and trying to finally hit 900 finds - and we did! A number of caches on top by benches - a couple underneath (I had to crawl to it cause there's so much sand blown under there from the winter storms). Then we stopped by the landfill preserve - a quick walk brought us to several caches to wrap up the day. I've included a few photos from around the landfill - looking out over the bay towards the ocean! Click on the above image to view. 
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| Artsy Mom | Apr 1 2012, 06:03 PM Post #23 |
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Lily the Black Bear –UPDATE April 1, 2012 Cubs Venture Out With Jewel   Jewel and Herbie - April 1, 2012 When it gets close to the time to leave the den, do cubs develop a drive to follow their mother? It certainly looked like that today. The cubs made every effort to stay near Jewel whenever she went out to rake more bedding, starting a little before 11:30 AM. Fern had a difficult time with a steep slope near the entrance and cried loud and long. Eventually, Jewel picked her up and dragged her back into the den. Herbie climbed and walked more easily. They all came out several times.  Jo near grub log - April 1, 2012 A visit to Jo and Victoria revealed they had been opening logs for grubs and were finding grass-like shoots coming up and working hard to eat them. Their scats revealed snow fleas, big grubs, and a lot of flower parts. Our best guess for those is red maple flowers because those are the only flowers we’ve seen and we know they eat them. We’ll make microscopic comparisons.  Close-up of grub log - April 1, 2012 With Honey and Lucky’s den empty as much as it is, it’s almost time to switch back to the Pond Cam. We’ll see when we can catch Ted Parvu for that. A complication is that the BBC arrived in force today. Filming starts tomorrow and Ted will be working with them. We love the creativity of Lily Fans Rhythm of the Rain. (2:46) Thank you for all you do. —Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center |
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| Harpo516 | Apr 1 2012, 06:11 PM Post #24 |
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very interesting Kris - Jesus Christ SuperStar is currently in NYC - never have seen  mmmm penny that sounds good ..... oh how cute is that cub I know when ES has their bear training before hitting the trail in NM when he does his backpack country, there is specific instruction about sleeping in tents - no one is ever allowed to just sleep under the stars - all wrapped in a sleeping bag/ they look like a log to the bear wandering thru the site and that's where the problems can begin as the bear tries to roll and tear open looking for grubs - SO SLEEP inside that tent! |
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| Harpo516 | Apr 1 2012, 06:30 PM Post #25 |
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| Deleted User | Apr 1 2012, 06:41 PM Post #26 |
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WOE IS ME! IT MUST BE APRIL FOOLS DAY! I JUST DID MY POST AT THE END OF SATURDAYS CHAT  SO GOOD NIGHT! |
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| jillers | Apr 1 2012, 06:57 PM Post #27 |
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Night Carol  Sleep well
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| Harpo516 | Apr 1 2012, 06:58 PM Post #28 |
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here ya go sunny - I moved it to Sunday for ya LOL I've done the same thing many times before  
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| Artsy Mom | Apr 1 2012, 08:01 PM Post #29 |
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Eeekkk I never would have thought of that  Good Info for campers My aunt in BC told me her 'raccoon' story last night only it turned out it was a bear who ravaged her bird feeders and knocked down her heavy iron shepherds hook holders for them. She was told a raccoon had been around and didn't know about the bear until a neighbor told her she saw it in her yard
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| ElaineRuth | Apr 1 2012, 08:47 PM Post #30 |
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I got this from today's Catalina Island Conservancy Newsletter and thought you might be interested, too. It also had some great bird photos with this article. "‘SPECIES TURNOVER’ A FACT OF ISLAND LIFE Changes among breeding birds on Catalina By Linda Farley Conservation Department Operations Manager Today, new species of birds are breeding on Catalina, some of which haven’t been documented in the past. Some species which were found on the Island in the early part of the 20th century, such as bushtits and Phainopepla, are no longer seen on the Island. This illustrates what is known as “species turnover” in action. Species turnover is the rate at which the number of species on an Island changes over time. Studies on species turnover in birds on Catalina go back to Jared Diamond, who is best known as the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and The Third Chimpanzee. He began his scientific career as a physiologist. But few outside of the scientific community realize that Dr. Diamond began his second scientific career as an ecologist on Catalina Island in the late 1960s. Diamond set out to study the Theory of Island Biogeography, a series of predictions describing the colonization of islands by species of plants and animals from the mainland. The predictions took into account the size of individual islands, and their distances from major landmasses, postulating that island species composition is in a state of dynamic equilibrium, constantly changing given the rates of immigration and extinction unique to each island. Another science great, E.O. Wilson, along with acclaimed ornithologist and community ecologist Robert McArthur, originally proposed the Theory of Island Biogeography. The theory remains a classic, and scientists, when looking to test their predictions, immediately sought a group of islands for study. Jared Diamond chose California’s Channel Islands. The successful establishment of a species on an island occurs when reproduction outpaces competition, predation and population crashes wrought by catastrophic events, like severe storms and prolonged drought. Additionally, at the outset, enough breeding individuals must first successfully disperse to the island. Diamond concentrated on species turnover in birds. He compared avian species lists from 1917 to the number of species documented on the Island in surveys undertaken in 1968. What Jared Diamond found was that species turnover was inversely proportional to species number: islands with high species diversity had low species turnover, and islands with low species diversity had high species turnover. * * * Distance from the mainland and size of the island did not seem to influence species turnover as predicted by Island Theory, but habitat diversity and richness did correlate to higher avian species counts as well as lower rates of turnover. Diamond concluded that the Theory of Island Biogeography may accurately predict species numbers and turnover rates on islands which are ecologically similar, but that the Channel Islands display a diversity of habitat types and complexity which did not correlate perfectly with either size or distance. This was a brilliant observation and an important contribution to island theory. While it is important to continue Jared Diamond’s exploration into Island Theory, the Conservancy’s effective management of Catalina’s wildlands requires that we understand which birds are breeding, which habitats they are utilizing, and what human impacts are potentially affecting reproductive success. As examples, Catalina’s grasslands are important habitats for horned larks and meadow larks. Both breed on the island and are considered sensitive species on the mainland. Additionally, the rugged West End harbors colonies of Xantus’s Murrelet, a threatened species throughout its range. However, our current knowledge of breeding birds on the island is incomplete. The landscape is undergoing a transformation back to what it might have resembled before introduced pigs and goats degraded the native vegetation, destroying wildlife habitat in the process. As breeding bird species and their habitats are identified, biologists can take conservation measures to restore habitat and reduce threats to sensitive species, and let nature take its course." |
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