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Chat - Tuesday, August 4, 2009; Reports on Fair Entries Coming ???
Topic Started: Aug 4 2009, 03:37 AM (1,477 Views)
Artsy Mom
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:}^ Peeps Have a good one :ok:

Here's a little belated <::: Buddy Update:

July 27, 2009

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Buddy in the large outdoor flight pen in June - latest available picture

The Center’s veterinary team examined #08-887. At this point, the eagle is not having difficulty eating, and additional dremmeling/trimming is not necessary. The eagle continues to be housed in one of the Center’s outdoor pens. :**: :><: :><: :**: Way to go Buddy :)^
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I just made a short video of the Hornby nest. Mom was on the nest with a ><'> patiently waiting for Hope to arrive. After about 25 minutes, Dad flew in with Hope right on his tail. Screeching galore, adults flew off and Hope is having a feast.

<::: HORNBY FAMILY FOODFEST
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Hooray for Hope and Buddy! Thanks for the info

Hi Zoey - looks like fun day! :><:
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"Run Zoey Run" have fun on the beach, you are so cute! <3
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Since we are going to be making a trip down to Minneapolis soon, I thought it would be great to stop in at the University of Minnesota Raptor Center while we are there. They have an up-close experience with live raptors which is presented from 1-2 pm every Saturday and Sunday. We hope to be able to get reservations for that one :D

In March there was a story about a Golden Eagle which The Raptor Center rehabilitated and outfitted with a transmitter before releasing it into the wild.

Whitey the Golden Eagle

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Researchers are tracking a golden eagle found in southwestern Wisconsin to learn if this western bird is broadening its range.

By Jim Williams, Special to the Star Tribune

Last update: July 7, 2009 - 1:13 PM

A golden eagle from the prairies of southeastern Minnesota and neighboring Wisconsin is taking some researchers on an Arctic adventure.
Golden eagles are relatively unknown in Minnesota, infrequently seen, counted in small numbers and for a long time thought to be lone wanderers from the west.

These huge brown birds do winter here, however. They hunt for prey on the steep grassy slopes in the driftless area. Any given winter, about five dozen golden eagles cross the Mississippi River from Minnesota to Wisconsin and back.

Goldens are essentially birds of western North America. They nest all the way up to the Arctic coast in Alaska and Canada. Their range maps show nothing along the western edge of Hudson Bay. But that's where Whitey is.

Whitey is the name given to a golden eagle by Scott Mehus, education director of the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minn. Mehus kept seeing a light-headed bird in a Wisconsin valley. He called it Whitey. When Wisconsin game officers delivered an injured golden eagle to Mehus last November, he knew he was looking at the bird he'd nicknamed.

Whitey's timing was perfect. Mehus and Mark Martell of Audubon Minnesota had been trying to trap a golden so they could attach a radio transmitter to it. They wanted to know where goldens that winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin go in the spring, where they summer and possibly nest. Their efforts to trap a golden eagle failed. It was a leg-hold trap set for a coyote that caught the bird. And that's how Whitey came to be the most studied golden eagle in this part of the country.

If and when Whitey settles down this summer, Canadian game researchers will try to find him. Project participants -- including the Department of Natural Resources in Minnesota and Wisconsin, the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge and Audubon Minnesota -- want to know what he's doing up there, and if he's doing it with other goldens.

It's possible that other goldens are breeding there, although probably not Whitey, because he got a late start this year.

"Ideally, we want to track a nesting pair of eagles to learn if they stay together during the winter," Mehus said. "We'd like to prove that they have nesting territories in that part of Canada. They're not known to nest there."
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Naturegal,Aug 4 2009
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"Run Zoey Run" have fun on the beach, you are so cute! <3

OK :P

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Topa Zoey just exudes happiness and well being in that image :)^

Agave in bloom at NBG

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Is it true that after blooming the agave plant dies? :unsure:
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Naturegal,Aug 4 2009
07:26 AM

Hope is not only spoiled, she is very ungrateful to her parents...did you catch that shove and beak action with Pa? :o I know, I know, this is part of how she will survive in the wild :D
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Awwwwwwwwwww Zoey!!! Love to see those ears flopping in the wind. Wish I could have a beach day.

But boss says no :rolleyes:
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Topa Topa Hikers,Aug 4 2009
07:14 AM

I hope someone brings their camera for a shot from the ferris wheel.[/b][/i][/color]


I think they may have other ideas atop the ferris wheel :P

Lyrics by Chuck "the Gong Show" Barris

Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon
:<:: You'll never know how great a kiss can feel When you stop at the top of a Ferris wheel When I fell in love down at Palisades Park...down at palisades park



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Artsy Mom,Aug 4 2009
07:56 AM
Since we are going to be making a trip down to Minneapolis soon, I thought it would be great to stop in at the University of Minnesota Raptor Center while we are there. They have an up-close experience with live raptors which is presented from 1-2 pm every Saturday and Sunday. We hope to be able to get reservations for that one :D

This is the same facility who offered Assistance to the Pa DEP for "Yellow Girl" the fledgeling peregrine falcon who has the serious Beak Injury who is now MIA but who is also hopefully adapting to the missing portion of her beak :)^
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Lotus in bloom at NBG

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LeicaEagle,Aug 4 2009
09:09 AM
Artsy Mom,Aug 4 2009
07:56 AM
Since we are going to be making a trip down to Minneapolis soon, I thought it would be great to stop in at the University of Minnesota Raptor Center while we are there.

This is the same facility who offered Assistance to the Pa DEP for "Yellow Girl" the fledgeling peregrine falcon who has the serious Beak Injury who is now MIA but who is also hopefully adapting to the missing portion of her beak :)^

That was so sad about Yellow Girl George :'( I hope she does not succumb to an infection and that her beak grows back soon. She didn't seem to have a problem eating when her parents brought food for her so I will keep :X: for her survival
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Well, i shall be AFK most of today as i shall be attending baseball game early this evening. Given where my seat happens to be i should hopefully get some great shots of tonight's game vs the Colorod Rockies :clk: :X:

Shall be lugging two camera bodies with me and two long lenses so i should have most of the field covered :X:
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