pirate mom has been doing her bored-out-of-my-asymmetrical-skull dance. I just can't imagine what fancy brooding hormones she must be on for her to sit there for weeks like that.

thanks, guys. I thought that had been a documented kill.

so the posts seem to BE there, including re: skye, but you cannot search them?

NO ONE remembers? I was sure that Kaver took a kestrel!

I just need confirmation or details. Someone must have some memory of this!
It was kind of disturbing at the time, I remember...those kestrels were pestering the peregrines, but still...

And what DID happen to the 2005 posts on the Yahoo Group?

I was hoping the Reef wouldn't take a hit from this...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100414/ap_on_re_as/as_australia_coal_carrier

Two historical questions - In July 2005, didn't Kaver take a kestrel? I remember that he did.
Then, I searched "kestrel" on the yahoo group -- there were hundreds of posts mentioning kestrels from 2004 and 2006 and NONE from 2005. Did we lose a ton of posts off of those archives? Like ALL of 2005? Has all evidence of Kaver's kestrel hit, as well as Shaky's secret meeting with the Godfeather (I did find my original of that) been expunged from the record??

Does anybody agree with me or am I out there all alone?
Lou

hahahaha. like you said, Lou. That one.

seriously, though, these are just gorgeous photos.

A perfect way to celebrate!  I am one of perhaps three people in the world who enjoys listening to yodeling!!   Gayle

Well, then, here's the most appropriate yodeling to celebrate an egg-laying with - the immortal Cackle Sisters!

"The yodeling perfected by the DeZuriks was much more than falsetto. Among their talents were complex imitations of animal sounds. "We listened to the birds and tried to sing with the birds," Carolyn DeZurik recalled many years later."

Here's an old (2005) NPR bit on them, with plenty of wonderful examples! Besides the clips they play in the 6-minute story, there are a number of full songs included if you scroll down on the webpage!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4775844

got avian lice?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8597520.stm

What Orville wants to be when he grows up.
Cute footage of penguins hauling rocks around, and after you watch it you get other links to penguin-related BBC.

The moneybag is in his hand, Dale. Does that help?
Lou
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yeah, well, like I said, it took me a few seconds to figure out.
I just had to give Mercury a quick once-over

Ooooohhh dear....another owl giving us a Look.
Lovely photo, Joyce.

Is that a fake peregrine?

that's a REALLY good watch, Lou!

The way Archer's carrying that woodpecker is so iconic...like a kid would draw it, beak down.
 
Also - I have to admit that after seeing Jim's shot of Beauty on Mercury's foot, I had a few seconds of wondering what anatomical bit of Mercury his moneybag might be.

Thanks!

I have heard that some animals that sleep with one eye open actually are sleeping with half their brain. I wonder.

Ooooh dear. Oh dear. I don't believe I've ever seen an owl looking so...coy...
That's a bit much. Chris may have felt sorry for his fans and started running animated owls.