5:00 p.m. update:

When the veterinary team checked on NX at the end of the day, they found that she ate all of meal — a small meal of chopped rat/mice.  The team hopes that she will keep the meal down overnight.

That was cute, thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AUtPKbMwnRo#!  Saw this last year, worth another look!!

Right on schedule Beauty

She left right after this

Oh, that's so sad! Thanks Kris

Its one of Youtubes best video's. Though's kid's did a first cla'ss job.  Their great.

Too funny, Shaky!  You are now an honorary member of the Grammar Police.

Dot in PA

And here I thought he had a few.....

That was AWESOME!!

Dr. Dave reported that NX was standing this morning when he checked on her.  She was fasted last night, so that the veterinary team can anesthetize her later today to perform a series of radiographs.

In Youngstown a “job opening� for a resident female peregrine was filled last month by this bird.

Dorothy’s son, Stammy, and his mate Stellar had nested in Youngstown since 2005 but Stellar died last summer.

Peregrines in need of a good nest site go wandering in the fall and those in need of a mate advertise their availability.  I’m sure Stammy hoped a female would notice him in Youngstown — and one did. By early November peregrine watchers saw Stammy courting with a new lady.

Last Monday Chad and Chris Saladin stopped by Youngstown for a look and identified her as Strike, hatched in 2009 at the Cleveland Terminal Tower nest.

Chris wrote, “Strike spent this nesting season in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park at the Station Road Bridge nest site. She and McKinley had two chicks, but both chicks died in the nest. We saw Strike fly into the nearby CVNP Turnpike Bridge nest territory, where she had a couple skirmishes with the resident female, Lara, and hadn’t seen Strike since. �

I’m glad that Strike found Stammy.  I hope their 2012 nest is a great success.

Strike

From Kate St. John's blog

[A common tern feeds its chick a butterfish. Tern chicks cannot eat the wide fish, they can only eat long, slender fish. Because of a lack of herring available to terns this summer, many tern chicks died as their bird parents tried to feed them the large fish.]

http://bangordailynews.com/2011/11/29/news/state/changing-fish-diet-killing-baby-birds-say-maine-researchers/ Story

A common tern feeds its chick a butterfish. Tern chicks cannot eat the wide fish, they can only eat long, slender fish. Because of a lack of herring available to terns this summer, many tern chicks died as their bird parents tried to feed them the large fish.

From: Donaldson Peter <pdnldsn.bird...>

> Subject: [HawaiiBirding] Snowy Owl at Honolulu International Airport

>

> On Monday, Nov 28, a white owl was seen by control tower

> personnel at Honolulu International Airport and reported to

> Wildlife Services. The Wildlife Services folks tried to chase

> the owl away from the runways with no success. The owl

> was shot and killed when it remained on one of the runways

> as an aircraft was approaching. Based on the description,

> I am confident it was a Snowy Owl. The carcass will be

> brought to Bishop Museum.

>

> Peter Donaldson

An update on the owl.--it was at Honolulu International

Airport on Nov 24, not Nov 28. I have received a photo of the

bird, and it is undoubtedly a Snowy Owl, the first record for

the region.



Peter Donaldson

A sad ending but amazing to think of a Snowy Owl in Hawaii.

Cheers,

 

[What a fun way to celebrate your Holiday. Happy Sinterklass to you all!]

http://youtu.be/2jkjbdWGAQ8 What a fun way to celebrate your Holiday. Happy Sinterklass to you all!

"...and the home of the braaaaaaaaave"

Shaky wins Best Caption!   

At least he knows the words! 

[We have our first greeting and it's from MAK.]

We have our first greeting and it's from MAK. Thanks!

[Thanks Carol and I will be posting these greetings on the fb page as I did last year.]

Thanks Carol and I will be posting these greetings on the fb page as I did last year.  I posted on fb that this year the theme is "RAPTORS".    I'm hoping to see lots get involved and more greetings coming in.   Have fun with this guys, I always loved the creativity here.     Thanks!