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[Come out and join us! Have a great birthday!]

Come out and join us! Have a great birthday!

 

Here is a good site to check migration counts.  Lots of TV's as mentioned here already on the move and yesterday 1 pefa flew through the Panama City location.  Archer is that you?!

http://hawkcount.org/

THANKS!! 

[One bird died when it was brought to shore and the other is in "bad shape," FWC spokeswoman Karen Parker said.]

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120302/ARTICLES/120309921/-1/news?Title=FWC-attempts-rescue-of-sandhill-cranes-stuck-on-Orange-Lake 

One bird died when it was brought to shore and the other is in "bad shape," FWC spokeswoman Karen Parker said.

Mortality rate is high in our familiar songbirds. For robins, it’s around 50% each year once young birds have fledged. If a robin survives to midwinter, it lives an average of 1.7 years after that. The oldest robins in your yard might be about six years old, although one banded bird lived almost 14 years. Robins don't maintain their pair bonds over the winter, so they mate anew each spring. But if the same male and female return to the same territory, they are very likely to mate again.

Birdnote

[Don't yawn, nonbirders. Stick with the story because this is an avian yarn that involves dicey climbs behind waterfalls and pitch-black, ladder-toting hikes to remote caves. It has interesting elements such as itsy-bitsy bird backpacks on what look like flying cigars. It is underscored with a dying man's devotion to "the coolest bird."]

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_20092428

Don't yawn, nonbirders. Stick with the story because this is an avian yarn that involves dicey climbs behind waterfalls and pitch-black, ladder-toting hikes to remote caves. It has interesting elements such as itsy-bitsy bird backpacks on what look like flying cigars. It is underscored with a dying man's devotion to "the coolest bird."

[The worms invading northern Midwestern forests (and forests in the northeastern U.S. and Canada) have been in the U.S.]

http://www.ashlandcurrent.com/article/12/03/01/blame-earthworms-midwestern-ovenbird-decline

The worms invading northern Midwestern forests (and forests in the northeastern U.S. and Canada) have been in the U.S.

I didn't know they nested on the ground. Not a good place.

Watching this on the news is devastating. Patti, so sorry about Jeane's sister and all the others who lost pretty much their life's everything. It's amazing to watch how they all come together to help each other with pretty good attitudes. It's a long road ahead for them, praying no more Tornadoes. Thank Jeane for her part in helping. Good luck today.

@ Lizz, good news for you!! This weather is just not nice. I don't recall having such a mild Winter, although the news said we did a few times. Where was I? The only snow I saw was on the Cams, like now! Oh well, maybe in June we'll get the BIG one! Sending prayers to all that were hit by this.

Cam 1 not going for a cruise tonight?

With the amount of activity at the nest box increasing, it makes sense to leave the camera pointed at it full-time.

Makes sense! 

Yes, we see you!

Yeah, it's dirty huh?

Hey, watch that!! 

Cam 1 not going for a cruise tonight?

Beauty's feathers covering some of her bands. Looks like you can't read them. Her little leggy fethers are long!

Somebody has the Beautiful one on their mind??????

Oh me too Joyce, ask MAK, I'll just say Kaver and Beauty! It happens!

Thanks for the clarification nyc!!  Sheesh!

I missed it too!  Can't tell you how many times I've called Archer...Kaver.

Beauty's feathers covering some of her bands. Looks like you can't read them. Her little leggy fethers are long!

Somebody has the Beautiful one on their mind??????

Thanks for the clarification nyc!!  Sheesh!

Beauty's feathers covering some of her bands. Looks like you can't read them. Her little leggy fethers are long!

Somebody has the Beautiful one on their mind??????

Shows you how much I was paying attention! 

LOL Ei!

Beauty's feathers covering some of her bands. Looks like you can't read them. Her little leggy fethers are long!

Somebody has the Beautiful one on their mind??????

Shows you how much I was paying attention! 

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh Boy, not the first time!!!  I guess so!