Aafke...nice pic....lucky you!  I had some visitors at my feeder today. Chicadee's!! They are so cute and they are not afraid. 

Man, that's a huge pic. I even resized it...hmmm. Sorry.

Aafke...nice pic....lucky you!  I had some visitors at my feeder today. Chicadee's!! They are so cute and they are not afraid. 

Wow.......did you see the falcons stoop? ??? Amazing photos........   Thanks Janet

It's ok, but my skin crawled with the description of what this guy did to himself    Glad he's going to be ok 

yeah that was pretty graphic  Janet....poor boy.

[Rhea Mae was being very good too.]

http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/About/2ColumnSubPage/STEL02_207633.html

What a great video Frank.....YAY Carol. 

Rhea Mae was being very good too.

[And the Grammy goes to: Carrie, Carol P, Kathy O, Dana, Lou, Marcia and Shaky]

Glad you liked the Shakymon calendar.

I'd like to thank Carrie, Carol P, Kathy O, Dana, Lou, and Marcia for working on this calendar, especially Lou and Marcia for putting it together and getting it into Zazzle.com.

And the Grammy goes to:

Carrie, Carol P, Kathy O, Dana, Lou, Marcia and Shaky    

Thank you all.

[One of Quest's old stomping grounds.]

A wounded young male red-tailed hawk (pictured above) who was found in a bird coop on Sal and Josephine Del Deo’s property off Atkins Mayo Road late Saturday afternoon is on the mend.

The hawk was rescued by Dennis Minsky and brought to Wild Care, Cape Cod’s emergency wildlife clinic on the Eastham-Orleans border. The hawk had raided the bird coop, killing and eating a duck. When he attempted to escape, he flew into a wall and ruptured his crop, resulting in a three-inch wound to the skin and muscles of his neck. Feathered duck flesh was protruding from the rupture site.

Wild Care’s team of rehabilitators stabilized the hawk all day Sunday. On Monday morning anesthesia and surgery to repair the rupture site was donated by Dr. Louise Morgan of Brewster Veterinary Hospital. Now on a diet of soft food and antibiotics, the hawk is recuperating well and is expected to recover fully, reported Lela Larned, director of Wild Care.

This is only the second poultry casualty the Del Deos have seen in their 50 years of having a coop, Larned said.

Wild Care is now selling tickets for its annual Wild Winter Night, an auction and fish fry at the Chatham VFW on Jan. 16. For details visit wildcarecapecod.org.

One of Quest's old stomping grounds.

The SPCA for Monterey County performed an emergency wildlife rescue this morning on El Paso Road in Salinas.

A barn owl was tangled in fishing line and unable to fly. The call originally came in to rescue an owl trapped in a barbed wire fence, but this is not what SPCA Wildlife Center Technicians found on arrival to the scene.

The rescue went smoothly and caretakers are hopeful the barn owl will be able to be released soon. Examination at the SPCA Wildlife Center revealed no fractures or dislocations, but the owl is favoring that wing so are closely monitoring the situation.

The SPCA for Monterey County is a nonprofit, independent, donor-supported humane society that has been serving the animals and people of Monterey County since 1905. They are not a chapter of any other agency and they do not have apparent organization. They shelter homeless, neglected and abused pets and livestock, and provide humane education and countless other services to the community. They are the local agency you call to investigate animal cruelty, rescue and rehabilitate injured wildlife, and aid domestic animals in distress.

The SPCA Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center is the only full service wildlife rehabilitation center serving Monterey County. The SPCA Wildlife Center’s professional staff operates under permits from the California Department of Fish & Game and rescues over 2,600 wild animals every year.

Online at www.SPCAmc.org.

This afternoon we received what appears to be a live, juvenile Ancient Murrelet into the bird rehabilitation hospital at the Marine Science Center, in Ponce Inlet, Volusia County.

This appears to be the first record of this species for the state of Florida. The bird was found by Ponce Inlet Fireman staff Steven Bell and John Brooks. The bird was found at the Ponce Inlet boat ramp tangled in Sargassum weed.
They alerted staff of the Marine Science Center which is located just across the street.

The bird is still alive as of 4:30 p.m.

Michael

Michael Brothers

UPDATE:

The Ancient Murrelet died last night. Verification from Bruce Anderson and Andy Kratter both indicate that this is the first record for this species in Florida and the only record for the southeastern U.S., except for one record from Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana in 1954. We have frozen the specimen and will turn it over to the collections of the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Michael

Michael Brothers
Marine Science Center
Ponce Inlet

Marine Science Center
Ponce Inlet

[Meeeeeeeeeeee tooooooooooo, got mine also...Oh I could looking at it. Makes me miss Kaver even more. Mariah too right now. I was going to keep it for myself but then decided to give it to my mom for . I 'll just have to order another for myself...(it's that well done). Thanks Shaky for the monthly chuckle, (for the next year).]

Meeeeeeeeeeee tooooooooooo, got mine also...Oh I could  looking at it. Makes me miss Kaver even more. Mariah too right now. I was going to keep it for myself but then decided to give it to my mom for  . I 'll just have to order another for myself...(it's that well done). Thanks Shaky  for the monthly chuckle, (for the next year).

[Takin the easy way out!!!]

Takin the easy way out!!!     

THANKS JEFF!!!!

http://www.fws.gov/nctc/cam/stillimage.html

Eagle in there now.

!!! We’re Still Here!
December 16, 2009 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Kathy Reports:

Angel and Jack are still on-site braving the cold weather and enjoying the sunshine when it comes.  I have not seen any juveniles since I last saw Elena on September 18th.  I suspect her departure coincided with Jack’s arrival back on the scene to renew his bond with Angel.

He was sighted daily for approximately 2 weeks at that time and I observed alot of bowing in the nest box together and heard them vocalizing to each other.   The last 2 moths I’ve seen Jack visiting the nest ledge at least 2 or 3 times a week for short periods and I’ve observed them hunting the local pigeons together some mornings.

Since Fall migration has ended it has been relatively quiet on the home front and other than humans, no one is alarming the falcons much at this time of year.  They are quite tolerant of the window washers and maintenance crews - although Angel does like to supervise the workers, which usually means hovering over them in the air and making them nervous enough so they know who’s territory they are in

I�m lucky to still see Angel on a daily basis but I suspect as the temperature drops, sightings will be less frequent based on the past two winters observations.

What a coincidence!  It's snowing here in Rochester too!   

Gee, I noticed    Does it ever Stop Snowing in Rochester???   

guess not...wow

Migrating bird had been tracked to Africa


CONCERN is mounting over the fate of one of the osprey chicks that left the Highlands during the summer.

Two youngsters born at the famous Loch Garten nest were fitted with satellite tracking tags and their migration has since been followed online.

The female ospreys, Rothes and Mallachie, left Strathspey in late August and both made it to West Africa in October.

Contact with Mallachie, however, has since been lost and her last known position was southern Senegal, close to the border with Guinea-Bissau.

RSPB Scotland site manager at Loch Garten, Richard Thaxton, said: “Having followed Mallachie on her maiden epic migration to Africa and learned so much about the route ospreys take, it is certainly disappointing to have now lost contact with her.

“We have received no new data on her whereabouts for over two weeks now, and though we are worried and cannot rule out that something has happened to her, it need not necessarily mean bad news.�

He said tags sometimes fail and Mallachie’s may have malfunctioned or dropped off.

He added: “Obviously, we would like to think and hope that Mallachie is perfectly OK, and that the explanation is a technical one, but we cannot know for sure.

“We will just have to wait and see if she does start transmitting again, or that we do see her back in Scotland one day, identified by her leg ring code, white PM.�

Rothes has been spending her time island-hopping in the Bijagos archipelago, off the coast of Guinea-Bissau. The most recent data last weekend shows her to have returned to the Guinea mainland, near Valera.