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Chat - Saturday, April 14, 2012; Fly Free - It's Saturday!!!
Topic Started: Apr 13 2012, 11:36 PM (423 Views)
Michele
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From an Eagle's View

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Naturegal
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Michele - Outstanding and beautiful promo :wub: :)^ :><:
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good morning everyone - our temps are supposed to be climbing into the 70's by monday - whooeee I'd rather stay at 50-60 ish :)
es is quite happy

going to work on front yard this AM then he's doing his hair ;) the we may sneak away for a little caching - we'll see......

I'm quite saddened that A49/A64's nesting didn't follow thru but indeed they are young so there's always the future and I know that there's much hope and promise for them and all the rest <3

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ALCOA FAMILY, CHICKS REALLY GETTING BIG...........

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DECORAH FAMILY..................................................................NCTC BIG FEET..................

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OZARK TRIPLETS..................................

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PA NORFOLK THIS MORNING......................

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SEQUOYAH, ONE OUT ON A LIMB...........................................SOONER CUTIE.............


<::: We are leaving Florida for home tomorrow so Eagleland won't be available until late next week.
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Ozzie - Wishing you the best of luck with the Open House and sale of your house :X: :X:
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Wishing you a safe trip back home Carole

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and :X: the border people don't make you unpack the car ;)
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Beautiful post Michele, It makes my heart soar! <3  :<<o>>:
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penny rofl rofl rofl
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Good Luck today Ozzie, All you need is one buyer! ;)

San Franfrazzled: Once-in-a-lifetime picture of lightning striking iconic bridge
"They say that lightning never strikes twice, but this amazing photo proves otherwise.
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An incredible eight bolts struck the Bay Bridge in San Francisco last night which was captured in this incredible shot by photographer Phil McGrew, who... took the photo through the rain-soaked window of his apartment."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2129246/Once-lifetime-picture-lightning-striking-San-Franciscos-Bay-Bridge.html


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Posted Image Hello, everybody.

Sorry I didn't get on here yesterday. It was my physio day. I realized that I hadn't driven my car for a month, since before our cruise. I actually went and got all the winter salt off at the car wash, poor car. I've been driving around with Robert a lot for family things, didn't realize I wouldn't be using it for so long.

Super Smilebox presentation yesterday, Topa. All the possible prizes make the draws so egg-citing. Your rainfall video sounded so fresh! I could just breathe the clear air. Our farmers are getting worried with the lack of snow and now no rain.

Michele, the poem you chose today for your presentation made me think about all the beautiful things an eagle can see while soaring above us. Well done!

Sad news, then, about Cruz and Spirit's nest. I haven't read the update yet. Guess this year was just one for experience, same as the whoopers sometimes.

Have a safe trip home, Carole, Alan and Maya. I hope the sandhills' eggs hatch!

Thanks for the Lily updates, Penny. I like the nature names they have chosen for the cubs.

Good luck with your open house, Ozzie! :X:
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Wow, what a lightning picture. :clk: :><:
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Whooper Update: News about the Class of 2011

Date: April 14, 2012 Reporter: Joe Duff
Subject: PROGRESS REPORT Location: Main Office


Technology advancements move so fast that even in the eleven years since we started leading Whooping cranes south, we have seen great changes. We now have handheld GPS systems with moving map displays and digital audio devices to broadcast brood calls loud enough to be heard over the sound of the aircraft engine. We can also stream live video from a remote pensite and send text messages to communicate without talking near the birds.

One of the real advances is the GPS – PTT units that are now fitted to three ultralight birds (#'s 4*, 7* & 9-11*) and three DAR birds. A PTT is a platform terminal transmitter which broadcasts to a satellite receiver. That in itself is an achievement considering it weighs only ounces, fits on a leg band yet is powerful enough to be heard by a satellite 540 miles away.

The GPS option records its location and stores that information in its memory. Once every three days the device uploads its present position and the GPS track history so we know where the bird is every third day plus where it was on the previous two. As I mentioned there are three birds fitted with these devices and they are set to report on consecutive days. That means that we get a location from one of them every day. So far all three units are still together so it reasonably safe to assume that all nine birds are travelling as a flock as they make their first northward migration flight.


Although the technology is fascinating, the real excitement for us, is knowing what course the birds are taking. When we had to end the last migration in Alabama, we loaded the birds into transport crates and took them 45 miles east to the Wheeler NWR. That was the first time we had crated all of the birds. In the past there has always been a few that made the trip on their own even if we had to crate some.

Ever since we have been worried that that trip in the back of our van may have broken their chain of knowledge and left them disoriented. We were confident that they would head north but if they flew directly north they would eventually arrive over Gary, Indiana where they might decide to go right as opposed to left. That mistake would take them into Michigan and the lake would create a barrier, stopping them from returning to Wisconsin.


As the GPS data indicate, our birds covered ~231 miles on their first full migration day and made it to Gallatin County, Illinois. The interesting part, however, it that they flew slightly northwest upon departing Wheeler and crossed the migration route we showed them. It would appear they roosted the first night only 10 miles from our stopover site in Union County, Kentucky.

Who knows what system they use to navigate but hopefully they are now in familiar territory. With luck they will make it back to the White River Marsh area in Wisconsin.

With the combined effort of all the people it took to get them south and the million years of instinct they need to get themselves back, maybe luck doesn’t have much to do with it.

(* = equals female)
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wow one can only hope that even though they did not fly the entire migration route that indeed they'll know their way home :X: very interesting - very scary ....... hoping for safe journeys for the youngsters as they go home.....

I guess it's like the eagles - the juvies fly off with no destination in mind, just to wander for a few years before finding their way home to begin raising their own young ---- but they find their way home no matter where they have been - hmmmmm  :<<o>>:
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<::: CRISIS AT RICHMOND, VA. NEST............

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/news/20...ved-ar-1841463/
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