New video with Jewel and her cubs, Fern and Herb!

http://youtu.be/DL5Bxm32tWk

            Happy Birthday, Donna!  Thanks for all you do to make this Forum fun plus informative!  


                               

Watch the video-can't believe the guys in the windows!

http://urbanhawks.blogs.com/urban_hawks/2012/03/still-looking-good.html

Doesn't seem like they're seeing Kendal at all -hope nothing has happened to him. Also,  shouldn't we be seeing someone at their nestbox by now?

Unless...they're going to nest elsewhere ... those open blinds are not very inviting, I wouldn't lay my eggs there with someone staring at me all day.  Either way, he should have been working on a scrape by now.  Egg laying will start in about 2 weeks here if we go by past years.

Looking back to last year, Quest laid her first egg on April 19th so I guess they still have time but I still wonder about Kendal. 

              

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28 more to reach 200, let's do this.   Oh Beauty, if you only knew!

13 left to reach 200!!  

5 left to reach 200!!   Awesome!!

200 Candles have been lit! She has to feel it, our Beauty!   

 

Doesn't seem like they're seeing Kendal at all -hope nothing has happened to him. Also,  shouldn't we be seeing someone at their nestbox by now?

Was that window shade/blind open last year?  I can't imagine Q&K being happy with the nearness of their human neighbors.

NO, it was closed when they nested. I think CPF asked them to keep the blinds closed.

It was closed this AM when I looked. 

http://www.justice.gov/usao/mn/stalochsentenced.html

                             

Just goes to show how preserving habitat is so important. Even what youd think of as insignificant. Anything that can be left alone in some areas probably should be. Outside of study of this bug,they should think about closing off access to that one lonley plant(ie the whole island).

So true.  One never knows whose habitat might be disrupted. If someone had gone to that island and had pulled up that plant....

I thought it remarkable that they were found and that they had survived all those years on a small patch of plant life. Hopefully all the efforts to bring the species back isn't in vain.

To bad they are the higher priced stamps

I know- I was disappointed in the price when I got them.

There's also a Raptor series of stamps that came out in the last couple months which includes a Peregrine, Eagle, Osprey, Northern Harrier and a Goshawk.  I got mine from our local PO here.

What a cutie!

http://tinyurl.com/85njltp

Oh...............my!!! 

As one comment said "I wouldn't want to find that in my shower!"