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Chat - Sunday, March 15, 2009; wow JANN what a great b'day you had
Topic Started: Mar 15 2009, 02:57 AM (2,732 Views)
petra
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welcome redhead7 enjoy us here


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Here's the next outing to prepare for and make your RSVP

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click on photo to check it out!

Thurs Mar 19 - Sacred Door/Panda Palace Cruzer Gathering

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Happy Happy Birthday Gail g - enjoy your special day :bday: :**:

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petra
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HAPPY B'DAY Gail g HAVE A NICE DAY
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Eaglepedia Revisited

March 14, 2008

Incubation: Heating Egg - For an egg to develop normally, it must be exposed for a considerable length of time to temperatures a few degrees below the normal 104 degrees F (40 degrees C) avian body temperature. Indeed, the ideal incubation temperature for many birds' eggs is about human body temperature, 98.6 degrees F. Almost all birds create the required temperature by sitting on the eggs and incubating them, often transferring heat via a temporarily bare area of abdominal skin called the "brood patch."

On the other hand, the embryo inside the egg is also very sensitive to high temperatures, so that in some situations eggs must be protected from the sun. Ducks with open nests, for example, will pull downy feathers (originally plucked to form their brood patches) over the nest to cover the eggs when they leave it, providing shade if the weather is hot and helping to retard heat loss when it is cold.

(note: we've seen the eagle parents pull a bit of fluff over the eggs to cover them while they are not sitting and incubating)

http://gloandtheeaglemomsters.blogspot.com...e-exchange.html

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SR Nest - a little fluff covering egg while parent off egg - a while later, all cleaned off - most of the time the "uncovered" eggs are what we observe!

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petra
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GREAT DEB very interesting......thanks
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OK was up until 2AM last night printing geocaches up and down the west coast :<:: probably won't do them all but we want to be prepared! :)^

I have a couple travel bugs to get registered so we can drop them off in CA while there! (Smurf is almost home - Smurfette is staying in CA apparently - Channel Island Eagle seems to have gone off on his own :( - Chickie ? - Herbie went to Europe!) :><:

speaking of which - where is that Carlea??? :unsure:

today's list includes -
finding Phil (he's hiding from me and I can't go to CA without him :o )
a little laundry so can past last couple things
take all those eagle photos off the camera so we can have MT card
file our taxes :**: so we can have some $$ when we get back
double check all reservations and addresses and phone #'s
stop newspaper
stop mail (who needs those bills anyway) ;)
pack Trinity's stuff
take care of birdies so they are good

hmmmmmm what else ......

ES is on a practice hike with his scout crew today so not back home until late in afternoon ......

OK gotta get busy but I'll be :ph43r:
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a lot of eagle calling at PH - no view yet though
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Deb ~ One more thing to do! Put mail on "vacation hold" :)^ (unless you use a PO Box).
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This is what greeted me this morning......
2 white ibis
1 blue heron
Mr. & Mrs Mallard
Glossy Ibis
Egret



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we did marti - thanks!

our newspaper has a program that you can stop your paper but keep paying and the money for that period that you stop delivery is used to buy papers for the schools and education programs!


Hey looks like a party at Carole's Pond!
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....and an Ibis ~ in a palm tree. :<:: :ddd:
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Carole, love the wildlife. I'd be out playing with them all day. rofl
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Hi Everyone. Found this article in today's newspaper. Thought you might find it interesting. Have a good Sunday.

ps. Hope I pasted it okay...I'm a little computer duh sometimes. :wacko:










http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/2009...EWS01/903150314

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Eagle Eye ~ Link didn't work - here it is....

Eagle population has airport's attention
ASSOCIATED PRESS • March 15, 2009

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Buzz up! AKRON -- A booming population of bald eagles, once almost extinct in Ohio, has caught the attention of officials at the Cleveland airport.


Four birds have been spotted at Cleveland Hopkins Airport 18 times since December, including one juvenile eagle seen flying down the center stripe of one of the runways.

The two adult and two juvenile birds don't appear bothered by incoming and outgoing jets, and have been seen in trees at the end of runways in the path of planes, said Damon Greer of the Ohio Division of Wildlife.

Two eagles also have taken up residence in southern Summit County about three miles from the Akron-Canton Airport along a common flight path for commercial jets.

The dangers birds can pose to planes hit home in January when a US Airways jetliner ditched in New York's Hudson River after colliding with Canada geese.

Eagles weigh 10 to 14 pounds with wingspans up to seven feet.

A Canada goose has a wingspan of six feet and generally weighs about 10 pounds.

Officials at Hopkins have been working with wildlife biologists to harass the eagles without injuring them, airport spokeswoman Jacqueline Mayo said.

Airport crews have used vehicles with flashing lights and sirens to scare the eagles off airport grounds, and the birds are being monitored closely.

There is no evidence of an eagle's nest on airport grounds or in the adjoining Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Reservation.

Greer said several nests found near the airport are being used by large hawks.

There have been 145 collisions between bald eagles and planes from 1990 through 2007 in the United States and Canada, according to data from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Alaska led with 45 collisions; Ohio had none.

Ohio confirmed 26 new eagle nests this year, boosting the statewide total to 210 and providing the potential for a record number of eaglets, said Andrea Tibbels, of the Ohio Division of Wildlife.

By 1979, habitat loss and use of the pesticide DDT had reduced the number of nests in Ohio to four.
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