so sorry if this was posted already - I looked but didn't find it
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/10/BAV01CD6K6.DTL&feed=rss.news

Like I OUGHT to be able to ID a peregrine at close range, right?
Except I was driving fast and it was flying low the OPposite direction RIGHT over my car.
I saw it for a lot less than a second.
It was definitely peregrine-sized, all pale underneath, and a dark helmet-like head top (not dark underneath). But seriously, I saw this thing for a FLASH. Could it have been any other raptor? A peregrine would have been migrating - it's not a peregrine area (highway near prairie in WI). There are scads of hawks around there, and I expect it was some sort of hawk, but that thing sure did look like a helmet.
Just curious what those who are more versed in hawks might know. Thanks.
Also saw a perfect male downy woodpecker today.

Thanks, Gayle.

Ok, and I'm friends with Olivia's M-I-L and knew her hubby when he was a youngster.

sorry - I'm clueless...I really am. Who's Olivia? Did she work on the dolphin film?

A win for them might help the dolphins...
here's the trailer: http://thecovemovie.com/WatchTheTrailer.htm
(and my cousin Paula produced it)

http://www.movienewz.com/legend-of-the-guardians/

Wingpit?

yeah, wingpit.
Where parrots let you scratch them.
Maybe the speakers itch.

WOW is that silly!!!! 

...so when they say, "a little birdie told me," they really mean, "I got it straight from a hawk's right armpit!"

That is SO a starling. If you heard him, did he sound like he was getting paid more than all of us put together by the cellphone company to transmit text messages? That's a starling.

Bunch of really strong photos of RTH landing gear in that series.
I do like that.

Interestingly, the first member of the class of 2009  to reach Florida was Direct Autumn Release chick #42-09 who got there the old fashioned way, by migrating with an adult!
Gayle

it wasn't a short cut - thing is, if you don't waste time rolling around giggling at the "costumes" - which gives cranes the hiccups - you make better time to Florida.
Migrating with the hiccups is a bear.

Anyone up for naming their firstborn, got the old-fashioned way, "Direct Autumn Release"? It's catchy.

Thanks, Gayle.

Just smashing, Jim!! I can't imagine. This is incredible!
I go owl-watching and see nothing. I always suspect they play poker on my car roof in my absence, and swoop off just in time.

the only thing that saved me is that it's such a lousy blurry video that I couldn't really focus on it. Otherwise it'd be too dangerous http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0yJbA2xoAg

actually, when I posted it I figured it went in OT
http://rfalconcam.com/forum/index.php?topic=1304.0

somebody's lookin' good. All shiny.