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Chat - Wednesday, February 18, 2009; TH Pair Have Their First Egg
Topic Started: Feb 18 2009, 04:19 AM (3,507 Views)
bec2905
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Hi, everone! About the Ireland trip, I talked to my husbend last night and he said No! He said everone on this forum is a Crackpot! :(
I tole him that must mean I'm a crackpot to, then, and he said, Well, sometimes I DO think you're loosing your mind! (That's his try at sense of humer)

We are trying to get out of det, but I still think we can swing it in two years!
So I am still going to work on him. Will we keep up with Irland news in that thread, or shuld I look for it here? I went to the thraed to post this, but it didn't look like it was reely being used, so I came here. Shuld I keep up with info here in Chat?
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Artsy Mom
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Hornbys are at home and nestorating...

Dad surveys his realm........................ He's keeping an eagle eye out
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Nest bowl last week........................... Here it is today after new 'fluff' added
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I am soooo excited! This morning about 7:50 I went out of the classroom to use the restroom which is right across the playground from our room. I heard birds above me so I looked up and what do you think I saw?? FOUR HAWKS!! FOUR!! They were flying around and screeching so must have spotted food tho they did not dive for it. They were flying away from over me and I tried to grab my cellphone to get a pic but I had forgotten to turn it on before putting it in my pocket and it takes forever to come on so missed out! :'( I take my camera with me to work everyday but who'da thought to take it to the bathroom with them?? :wacko: Obviously, not me! But you can bet I will from now on :lol:
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bec2905 what area of the Country do you live in? I was at the Travel Agency this morning, and got some information. Was just looking at some of the Packages they are offering. They are only giving me Land Fees at this time, and that goes up to $3146.00 which does not include all of the places we are interested in seeing. There is one for $2258.00 which goes all around the Island. There are some for less, but you only see the Southern Part of Ireland. Some Packages we could stay in a Castle! That blew me away! As we finalize things I will be Posting it in the other thread, but we are still in the early development of planning this all out.
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Would your photos of the Hummers be a female and a male Linda? I have tried so hard to entice them to my yard by planting all kinds of hummer friendly plants and I have seen a few for a very short time in the Spring and Fall.

Alas, they just use Manitoba as a corridor to their nesting areas and their wintering grounds :(
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Good Morning, Eagle Peeps! :}^

It must be Spring (although you couldn't prove it by looking at the mountains around here - loads of beautiful snow!). But my little Rufous hummer is back, so it must be Spring....

I'm surprised that there is enough sugar left in the feeder to taste - the rainwater filled it up over the weekend. But all the Anna's and this little guy were fighting over it like mad so there must've been some good stuff left!
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Cricket,Feb 18 2009
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My heart breaks for Buddy that he will never be released although he was Born Free. So sad.

agree Cricket ...but better this than die huh...
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Poisoned eagles mystery believed solved

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Story Published: Feb 16, 2009 at 7:38 AM PST

Story Updated: Feb 17, 2009 at 6:49 PM PST
By Luke Duecy & KOMO Staff

LYNNWOOD, Wash. -- A mystery is believed to be solved into how a half-dozen eagles were poisoned in Enumclaw.

It began last week when neighbors discovered the protected birds, usually perched in trees just outside Enumclaw, dying in a field.

"I got a ring at my doorbell at seven o'clock in the morning from somebody with an eagle in their arms, and she thought it was dead," said Bruce Richards with the state Department of Wildlife.

Veterinarians soon determined the birds were poisoned. But nobody in town could figure out how, or whether anyone was doing it maliciously.

They knew they had to find out quickly, or risk harm to who knows how many more eagles.

Richards started going door to door, but it didn’t take long to discover a likely cause.

"It was the first door I knocked on," Richards said.

A farmer told the wildlife agent he euthanized his aging horse by injecting it with vet-prescribed barbiturates.

"He was very honest; he said yeah, they put a horse down," Richards said.

But Richards says because the farmer did not bury the horse properly, countless eagles and other animals fed on the poisoned meat.

As a result, six eagles are now being treated inside the PAWS Animal Clinic in Lynnwood, but one of the eagles has since died.

Because the bald eagle is our national bird, it's protected under federal law. But Richards says he doesn't know if there will be any charges.

"I don't know what happens," he said. "I've never had something like this happen. It's not like he was intentionally trying to poison the eagles and I'm not going to make him out to be a bad guy."

So far, there's no word if any other animals got sick.
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bec2905
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I live in South carolina. I thought maybe with a gruop we wuld save mony, but he is not intrested at all. Especally if your talking about going to Holland, too. Dont count me in- cuase I don't want to effect any plans and than not be abel to go!
I will just keep up with whats going on and if i can do it, I will join in with watever plans you have. I usully just read and keep up with everone, but the Ireland trip got me intrested! Ill keep up with your plans on the thred. I cant stay on most of the time during work, so I thought the thred wuld be easy for me to keep up. But youll have final plans there Im sure!
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Kathie...what a great pic! I love hummers! My dad used to have a couple of feeders like your's but with his age and all that is going on with my mom's health he took them down as well as all his seed feeders. Got to be too much for him to keep up with. He mentioned the other night tho that he misses them :(
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Lala...your hummer pics are beautiful, too! Wish I could get some shots like that. Maybe someday.

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Penny, how sad that so many eagles had to perish before they found the source.:(


We are under a winter weather advisory Deb. It's gotten pretty windy over the last hour or so. We're not suppose to have a lot of snow here but the wind and the warm temps and then drop in the temp when it does start to snow, means that the road will become really slippery. Yuck. I'd just as soon the snow all go away. I'm tired of being cold.
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WELCOME MrsGoose, let's hear from you soon. :}^

Andi
- Good luck with your MRI results and hope your DH feels better soon.

Peetie - :X: Sjimmie <3

Cricket - Feel better soon.
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Hi Karen - Thanks. I wish I could see lala's pix; I know how great they must be! My dad & stepmom have always had a big hummingbird feeder on their patio. Since she has been so ill and he is distracted with worry, I don't know if he has kept up with the feeder or not. I'll have to ask him....
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4 Enumclaw eagles released back into the wild

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Story Published: Feb 17, 2009 at 5:42 PM PST
Story Updated: Feb 17, 2009 at 6:48 PM PST
By Denise Whitaker

ENUMCLAW, Wash. -- It's majestic, strong and graceful. The American Bald Eagle is a living symbol of our freedoms.

Imagine the heartache - when a total of six eagles were found near death in the Enumclaw Valley.

Laura Olender found two of the eagles, “I didn't know, I thought it would die.”

When she thought one had passed away in her lap on the way to the vet, Olender reached down to resuscitate it.

"I picked him up and his head just flopped and he didn't appear to be alive at all," she said. "So I just opened up his beak and blew in his beak short breaths and he came back, his tongue started to move and his eye started to flicker."

How did they get to be so sick? They ate from a poisoned horse.

A local farmer had to put down a horse and did it legally with barbiturates, but then failed to properly bury it. The eagles then ate the poisoned meat.

If they hadn't been found, Veterinarian Dr. John Huckabee says, "It's very likely they would have died because they were unable to defend themselves."

Dr. Huckabee said the secondary poison heavily sedated the eagles to the point that they just slept for two days.

He and the staff at PAWS in Lynnwood carefully cared for the eagles and after several days, four were finally ready to return to the wild.

Officer Bruce Richards with the Fish and Wildlife Department picked up the birds in Lynnwood and drove them to the Enumclaw Valley – to within a half mile of where they were all found.

A small crowd gathered at the Huizenga farm to witness the historic day. Richards told them that is truly is a unique experience, that the release of four eagles at once is the first time it’s been done that he knew of in his 35 year career with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Officer Richards asked everyone to stay very quiet, so as not to scare the eagles. One by one, volunteers helped carry the crates containing the birds to the middle of a field. Richards then gave the go ahead for Dorothy and Gil Huizenga to open the cages and let the eagles soar.

Later, Huizenga said, "We do see the eagles around here from time to time and really enjoy it, but you know we felt bad it had to happen like this. It is very touching."

As the second eagle released flew away, Richards told the crowd, "That's a sub adult. That means he's about 4 years old - you can see the coloration on the head."

An eagle's white head and tail don't fully develop until about age 5. That's when they're adults.

Kianna - not-yet-two – expressed her excitement at seeing the eagles released, repeating, “Eagle, eagle. Fly away!” while also raising her hands in the air, as if to fly herself.

Kellen Kranc, another excited kid exclaimed, "That was cool!"

When he first handled the sick eagles, Richards said he wasn't sure they'd make it.

Richards said, "If you saw the condition of them deteriorate."

He was just as thrilled as the rest of the crowd to see them soar.

"These are the memories I talk about in sixth grade classes and talks," Richards said. "These are the memories that come back. The good memories of my job."

So ecstatic to see them back where they belong, Laura Olender proclaimed, "They're part of the valley!"

A fifth eagle didn't survive the poison, and a sixth remained at PAWS for treatment of a broken leg that veterinarians figure it suffered before it ate the poison
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