eBay only accepts Paypal. There may be a way to buy a set directly from Rfalconcam, but I don't have that information.

Yeah, I kinda figured that. My Paypal acct was hacked, I won't use it again. If there's another way....I'm in!

True, we did have quite a few Canadian Falcons that crossed the border and vise versa.  

[(more) with pics]

http://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/ Blog

The aim of this blog is to monitor the occurrence of illegal raptor persecution incidents across Scotland, and to report on the outcome of each case. As you will already know from reading the blog entries, persecution incidents have been occurring for many years and involve most of our raptor species, including golden eagles, white-tailed eagles, red kites, hen harriers, buzzards, goshawks, sparrowhawks, ospreys, kestrels and owls. Over the coming weeks, I will review each species in turn to see what progress, if any, has been made by our law enforcement bodies. Let’s start with our most iconic species, the golden eagle and white-tailed eagle. (more) with pics Click link above

Really? There is a bird called a "bat falcon"? I did not know that (among other things...)

Yup, a few years ago, I wrote to them to ask what kind of Falcon that was. The nice man replied and said it was a Bat Falcon and they have been there for years. Used to see the Falcon every day but they keep changing the angle of the cam.

http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html Here's the link.

FWC - A Florida burrowing owl, listed as a species of special concern, was just hours away from becoming a cruise ship stowaway on Saturday. Just before Royal Caribbean International's "Oasis of the Seas" was to depart Port Everglades for a tropical locale, the owl was discovered on the ship's mini-golf course, on the upper deck. A Royal Caribbean crew member called the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).

FWC Lt. David Bingham and a Broward County Sheriff's Office deputy safely removed the pint-sized bird from the golf course. Bingham released the owl in an open field in western Broward County.

"Never in all of my 25 years with the FWC have I seen anything like this, and I have responded to some strange calls," Bingham said. "I am very pleased the owl wasn't injured and that we could get it back to a normal habitat."

As a species of special concern, Florida burrowing owls, their burrows and their eggs are protected from harassment and/or disturbance by state law. Burrowing owls also are protected by the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

"Burrowing owls need to be in open, treeless areas where they can dig their burrow," said FWC biologist Ricardo Zambrano. "The artificial turf on the ship's golf course resembles the fields they use for nesting in urban areas; however, it was obviously not suitable habitat for this owl."

Is payment only through Paypal?

I just read Frank's news...you know the area he's in is around where Quest's last tracking shows her at the start of September.  Wonder if she's run into her nephew at all  

Here's the link to his video of Stormin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x7dx0T35ZA

Wow, that is so cool, thanks Carly! Now why don't the Canadian Falcons come here? 

OMG...30??That's amazing. Thanks Bobbie.

 Auroras can make spectacular sights. Photographed above last weekend, flowing multi-colored auroras helped illuminate a busy sky above Tromsø, Norway. Besides the spectacular aurora pictured above, the photographer caught three satellites streaks, one airplane streak, and a friend trying to capture the same sight. Although auroras might first appear to be moonlit clouds, they only add light to the sky and do not block background stars from view. Called northern lights in the northern hemisphere, auroras are caused by collisions between charged particles from the magnetosphere and air molecules high in the Earth's atmosphere. If viewed from space, auroras can be seen to glow in X-ray and ultraviolet light as well. Predictable auroras might occur a few days after a powerful magnetic event has been seen on the Sun.

From Sept 15: Clouds, Birds, Moon, Venus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6ItuIFhSwA&feature=related How awful. Poor girl.

This is really great news. Thanks Joyce for posting. He's a cutie also. RM&T will be proud of their boy. 

Went back up to Montezuma yesterday and when we arrived we saw a Peregrine in a snag.

When I first read that, my heart sank! But I am now thinking a "snag" is not some sort of trap?? Tho I am sure they could do some useful banding/ringing there...

a snag refers to a standing, partly or completely dead tree,   

Eagles back at Osprey nest. Cool to see them.

6:46, Archer lands at nest.

 at 6:49 he leaves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-_RHRAzUHM