Annette, the red-legs peregrine was just out in the sun too long LOL   

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This guy looks like a peregrine to me.

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Lou, the raptor photos were great!  Thanks for sharing.

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Yes, Anne, the pix are a lot easier to see now. I'm curious about Eric. Where did you find him, and where does he live? When I was just married we had a red-eared turtle named Touche that lived in our aquarium.  We had him 9 years, from a baby sold in the 5 & 10 store  to a handsome 8"-long guy. He was a surprisingly good pet, always climbing up on his rock island to greet us whenever we walked into the room and asking little more than a couple of his favorite fish (gourami) to chase down for dinner.

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 Loved all your bats, Mirta!  Thanks for the link.  Now I have some nice bats for my collection. 

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Maybe Shaky can fix my bat???  in his spare time, of course, between falcon-watching and managing this website. Right now I'm sure he's much too busy to fiddle around with graphics. Maybe when Yarak the Egg Bot hatches and grows up ...

I did try the bat as a smaller still image but all the details were lost. I have an animated gifs editor but so far I haven't been able to do much with it. Should I live long enough, maybe I'll learn how to use the blasted thing so I can make my many large animations smaller.     

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Mirta, 0ops! The bat is supposed to fly and I have no idea why it posted as a still image. So left-click the bat to start him flying, and then right-click to download to your computer.

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For Mirta (not for Shaky to add)

You requested a bat, but the available bat clip art and animations are truly awful and disgusting. Most have teeth dripping with blood, etc. I do have one bat with a toothy smile that I like. It's way too big for Shaky to add to the smiley set but if you like it, you can right-click on the picture and download it to your computer into whatever file you use for saved graphics. That way you can use it in emails to your friends, etc.

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Donna, I found the first falcon on an Italian falconry website. It was a corner decoration on the home page.  The second one was on a tee-shirt sports printing site. There are apparently lots of sports teams with falcons as the mascot. He looks a little like the falcon in the logo at the top right of this site..

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Shaky, it took a while but I finally found two falcon smileys. I'm not nuts about them, so feel free not to include them if members don't especially like them.

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Forgot the 4th one wouldn't fit ...

If there's still room, here are 4 more possible holiday smileys - 2 Christmas, 1 Halloween, and 1 Happy New Year or birthday.

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  Shaky, is it possible to set up a separate window strictly for holiday smileys and animations? I have some holiday ones too that I could send, but don't want it to get to the point that it takes longer to scroll through all the smileys than it does to write a post LOL

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  Hey Bonnie, now you're in print and famous!  I'm sure it was worth the long drive to see them fledge.

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I forgot this one.

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