http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14702100 Be well Happy Feet, find your friends. 

http://hamptonroads.com/2011/08/eagles-changed-life-virginia-wildlife-hospital NX gets released tomorrow for the second time. Hope she does ok this time.

BINGO!!!   Thanks

Ok, almost as many pics as I have posts!! This is going to be like a job. Need 2 breaks and a lunch! 

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2401994775094 Hope this works. This is Downtown Denville. All the stores are under water. Never ever have I seen it like this. Devastating for these store owners.

It keeps taking me to MAK's Kodak gallery!!  I even rebooted Firefox and still Carrie's link is MAK's album.

Look, she's actually in the nest!! Archer's so cute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra-O88xx_nk#ws This kids sums it up!

Here's the bridge I took the pics of Denville from and a couple pics of the street my brother lives on.The water is rushing so fast in the houses, they can't pump it fast enough. It just rolls back in.

The Dover pic is across the highway from me. I have never seen it so bad. I don't think anyone is going any where for a few days.

Glad You and Kara are save.WOW, lots of water .Is your brother OK ?

Greetings Carla

The wind is whipping harder now than last night. My screens are blowing off the windows!! Nothing like screen chasing!

Carla, my brother is fine, he just can't go any where.

kendal at nest!

The Wilder bunch aka (Bookends).
Looks like Beauty

Here's the bridge I took the pics of Denville from and a couple pics of the street my brother lives on.The water is rushing so fast in the houses, they can't pump it fast enough. It just rolls back in.

The Dover pic is across the highway from me. I have never seen it so bad. I don't think anyone is going any where for a few days.

Phew!! What a morning. Me and Kara just had to go out and get some pics, that's why I was gone for a couple hours. It's so bad out there. Dover, Denville, Rockaway...all under water. Here's a few pics I took this morning.

These are all of Our baseball field in Denville. We had to leave as they were closing more roads and we had to get home.

Meetings and visiting with friends today.. Meetings tomorrow and maybe some time to take a few pictures. LOTS of fresh snow. Kind of warm and balmy,, +12 today. Storm never showed today but who knows about tonight or tomorrow. Just glad to be back !!! )  From Jeff

Parents at William Osler Enjoying the Day Without Kids
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Tracy Simpson Reports:

Frank and I took a trip this evening at 6:00pm to the William Osler Hospital site to check in on the family of falcons there and found Hurricane, the resident male, on top of the east facing “Hâ€� and O’Connor, the resident female, on her usual southeast corner of the nest ledge.  A quick check of the nest tray and hydro towers revealed no juveniles in the area at the time and the adults actually looked rather relaxed.  Half an hour after our arrival, both adults left their perches and were soaring above the roof of the hospital.  A moment later, O’Connor took off and headed to the northeast with intent and power and so Frank and I tracked her with our binoculars as she remained in our sights.  Hurricane took off and joined her and left Frank and I wondering what she was up to.  A moment later, she broke off her flight and circled back towards the hospital as Hurricane continued northeast and disappeared.  O’Connor was gone for at least 20 minutes or more before she reappeared on the southeast ledge she likes to call home.  Hurricane had also returned and was back on the east facing sign consuming a recent kill he had made while he was gone.  As the sun set, there was no appearance by any of the juveniles and both adults had settled in for the night.

While the young falcons may be flying further afield in preparation for a successful migration, both parents are still using the nest site as a night roost and feeding station and will continue to defend the territory although not as vigorously as they would with juveniles present.  The adult pair will also be spending more time away from the nest site hunting and feeding but will return to it periodically throughout the day and each evening.  The juveniles will also continue to periodically use the nest site as a roosting spot; an observation of this behaviour seen recently at the Toronto Sheraton nest site.

At almost all urban nest sites, the adults remain on territory even in the winter as prey is abundant in the form of pigeons and other small birds and the buildings provide microclimates where they can escape the winds and cold of winter.  The juveniles, on the other hand, will be leaving this fall for the south, following the smaller birds that they prey upon.  Over the next week, we will be making a trip out to Islington and Rexdale where the adult female likes to take the young to train, as evidenced by our sighting of Wind giving some gulls a go at that intersection, and see if we can spot any of the juveniles practicing their skills.  Check back as we watch the progress of the young ones training for their big flight!!

[Anderson said it was “stunning� to discover that D-1 traveled 32 miles northwest on her first day of independence and 52 miles north on the second day.]

http://thegazette.com/2011/08/26/eagle-watchers-still-learning-from-decorah-hatchlings/ Transmitter  girl on her way.

Anderson said it was “stunning� to discover that D-1 traveled 32 miles northwest on her first day of independence and 52 miles north on the second day. Tiny transmitter following female's travels since leaving area in mid-August