http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d93V2IcO4E Wow, this is cool! Shiv Kapila, a student working with our Africa Program, captured this unique close-up footage of African Fish Eagles grabbing fish from the surface of Lake Naivasha. 

They figured it came down the "stink pipe" and it was so near drowned!  I DID feel sorry for it when it didn't make it.  BUT I JUST about had a heart attack!!  this face doesn't even come close! 

Dawn has been trying to convince me how lovey SOME of them can be like her Bullet!  She says she thinks I would change my mind if I ever met him!  Snakes and GS's are forever on my NO NO List!  Just can't get passed past history!  LOL!

I'm with you on the snakes but German Shepherds are great loving dogs, also it depends on how they are trained. Mostly, they just want to play and play. My sister had one for years, his name was Baron and he wanted  to play ball or stick all the time, (never stopped) until we lost the stick. (Not really, we hid it). I have come across a few aggressive ones in my day but if you don't show fear, usually all goes well. They are smart dogs and can smell fear. I love them. If you had a bad experience, that I can understand as I have had badies with snakes. 

No Bobbin today but did find a new buzzard over the spire, this one has all primary feathers intact (so far) - Bobbin probably hasn't encountered it yet!....Dave 

[A Night Before Christmas from Janet.]

A Night Before Christmas from Janet.

Come on, where is she???

(movie) Beauty on Mercury?

The still images are about 20 minutes behind due to a configuration error with the camera. We're working on it.

The streaming video is running fine.

Thank you so so much, I knew I wasn't that carzy. Dat splains it!

Come on, where is she???

(movie) Beauty on Mercury?

Beauty on Mercury

I didn't see Beauty on Mercury until 8:06. MAK saw her earlier than that.

Beauty showed up around 7:40.

I don't see her unless I'm not seeing her! 

[MAKfalcon (MAK):]

MAKfalcon (MAK): Happy hump day! Check pancam for B is on Mercurys money bag hand

What's a "hump day"?

Wednesday, the middle of the week is called "Hump" day.

The voices matched the personalities perfectly!

Ei

It was well orchestrated, I agree Ei.

WOW!  Love this one!  Was visiting family in Michigan a few years back, taking a shower, no glasses on so vision not great!  Hear this splashing, look around curtain and see something dark brown MOVING around in potty!  Am scared to death of snakes and German Shepherds (sorry Dawn!) and started screaming and knocking on the wall so someone would hear me!!  Hubby rushed in and there was a little squirrel in there!  Poor baby, but poor me almost had a heart attack!  We laugh about that to this day!

OH too funny...OK, now it is. How did it get in there? Ever find out?

Beauty on Mercury

I didn't see Beauty on Mercury until 8:06. MAK saw her earlier than that.

[While cold temperatures may have many people enjoying some time getting office work done, I enjoy working outside despite temperatures in the 30s. Yesterday, with help from Bill Pitts, a wildlife technician with NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Endangered and Nongame Species Program and Alf Breed, a seasonal technician with Conserve Wildlife Foundation we set out on the Delaware Bay to install a set of new predator guards on a peregrine falcon nesting tower near Heislerville. The new predator guards require little maintenance and more importantly help protect their nestlings from being predated by ground predators, like raccoons.]

While cold temperatures may have many people enjoying some time getting office work done, I enjoy working outside despite temperatures in the 30s. Yesterday, with help from Bill Pitts, a wildlife technician with NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Endangered and Nongame Species Program and Alf Breed, a seasonal technician with Conserve Wildlife Foundation we set out on the Delaware Bay to install a set of new predator guards on a peregrine falcon nesting tower near Heislerville. The new predator guards require little maintenance and more importantly help protect their nestlings from being predated by ground predators, like raccoons.



http://www.conservewildlifenj.org/blog/?p=1093  continued

Now this looks like a good layer – it’s one of the nicely knitted tops helping rescued battery hens survive freezing winter temperatures.

The birds, saved by RSPCA officers last month, had been so poorly treated their feathers had fallen out, leaving them at risk in the cold.
Staff at Raystede Animal Welfare ­Centre in Lewes, East Sussex, have been knitting clothing and volunteers have sent in jumpers.

Sanctuary worker Wendy Holford said: “I ­cannot get over the kindness of those people who have knitted jumpers for the girls.�

(movie) Cam 4 clears up
More snow!

[Have a great day Carol.]

Have a great day Carol.