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Chat - Wednesday, April 18, 2012; We love our Channel Island E-A-G-L-E-S!
Topic Started: Apr 17 2012, 11:25 PM (747 Views)
Naturegal
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Kris - The rooks look like they have a comical personality, quite the crop on them too. Great news about Daffy, hope the nest stays safe. :X:

Is there any improvement in Ed's health, sure hope so. :X:

I wish I could relax today but had to do all the unpacking, laundry, and organize the house. Alan went into the office to get our income tax receipts ready for the accountant, so it's nice to be alone, I get much more done this way.
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Cheryl - When we were driving through the Cumberland Gap area of Tennesee, I was thinking about the whoopers as this was part of their old migration route. Glad they switched as the mountains are so high and if a crane dropped out, it would be almost impossible to land an ultralight.

That recipe is decadent, a bit too rich for me but will pass it on to my granddaughter who loves to bake.

I too find it amazing that the whoopers are on course, 'whoop-whoop" for these clever birds.
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Blackwater Osprey Nest has 2 eggs but they seem to be working on more :P

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Carole, I remember those Cumberland Gap days, so scary. We had to wait for hours to find out if they had made it safely.
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You think up such clever lines, Jeanne. :)^ I think you could be in advertising. :D
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Thanks Cheryl - I used to be in a marketing department, and my initial entry was for a newspaper where I did some illustrations, cartoons, etc. Much more creative than what I do now!

Thank you, too Kris - never saw your post!



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:}^ Cruzers. I've been lurking today...needed to give the eyeballs a rest :P

Nothing too exciting from Norfolk today except Pa had a little :wub: session with #2 who is now being called BO because she is so bossy rofl He's not giving up yet :P

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Cheryl aren't those Whoopers just amazing. The route has to be imprinted in their brains somehow even after only one trip :><: :><: :><:

Sad about Dick Clark, I remember watching American Bandstand religiously during my high school years. He never seemed to change much through the years either until his stroke.

Jeanne your last NAC promo image is so :D :lol: rofl I love it !!!
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G'day peeps, my Thursday, working from home. No rain at the present, but more is coming. Massive flash floodings yesterday, one of my two routes home was closed due to flooding.

We went out to dinner with Wendy & Varuna, long time friends of Bob's. Wendy is an English teacher (I shouldve asked her about the 'name and me' stuff!) and an Ex-Opera singer. She is a no-nonsense opinionated person, I like her a lot. Varuna is of Sri Lankan descent apparently comes from the elite of the Island (father was a High Court judge), English educated. Very lovely couple. We had Thai.

Jeanne, I just love the YOU HOO best of all! <3 <3 <3 <3

Fun pics Kris!

Oh man, those cookies... to die for...

Cheryl, it is amazing story about the WCranes :)^
You paid money for ROCKS??? :blink:

Hello to Sunnylands, you say good evening to us every day, so I am returning the salute!

This is a wonderful story! Techno head designs save-strays app.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/smartphone-apps/sydney-students-quest-to-save-stray-animals-from-death-bed-20120418-1x6dx.html
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Lily the Black Bear – UPDATE April 18, 2012

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Black bear tracks - April 18, 2012

We wondered why Jo and Victoria had spent nearly 12 hours near a spot where trappers have deposited beaver carcasses in the past. We checked a few days ago and found nothing. They visited the same area briefly last night. With snow still on the ground, we checked again today.

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Turkey vulture - April 18, 2012

As we drove up, eagles, ravens, and turkey vultures flew up. One vulture remained for a picture. We checked for tracks. Just as we thought—bear tracks. Some big bear tracks. Several bears, plus wolves and a coyote. Down in the woods were a half dozen beaver skulls and some deer bones. Jo and Victoria have moved nearly a mile away now. Maybe the big bears were more than they wanted to deal with.

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Overstep walk gait .......... Beaver skull and deer clavicle - April 18, 2012

This is the time of year bears will eat carcasses around here—especially beaver carcasses. Forty years ago, we put a deer carcass outside the den of a mother with newborn cubs to see if a bear whose stomach was shrunken from 6 months with no food intake would eat it. She did. She ate nearly all of it before leaving the den area. A little later in the year (May 5) a radio-collared bear checked out a road-killed moose. We staked it out to see if the bear would eat it. Nope. By then, fresh young grass was coming up beside the road, and the bear ate that instead. But for now, this year, beaver carcasses are on the menu.

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Loping gait - April 18, 2012

Sue kicked into ‘tracking mode’ and snapped a few pictures of gait patterns. Black bears commonly walk in an overstep walk pattern—where the rear foot is placed ahead of where the track made by the front foot (as seen in the first picture). When they are in a bit more of a hurry, they switch to a lope as seen in the second. The individual tracks are labeled to help visualize foot placement.

A video of Jewel and cubs from April 14 is posted on YouTube.

Thank you for all you do.

—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center
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Yikers those little cubbies were high up in that tree :o

At least we know they can climb out of harms way if they need to :)^

Kris you must have a special wholesale supplier of bird food. Looks like the flocks of rooks are telling all their friends where the good eats are :P

Good for the male Osprey...now he needs to understand he has to supply his mate with  ><'>
That will be especially important when the :^: :^: arrive.

Mount Popo is magnifico!!! :X: it doesn't actually blow it's stack.
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