Oh for goodness' sake, Donna. Diver Dan!  This board has gone all to hell.
YES I DO most certainly remember Diver Dan. I must have seen it on the Ray Rayner show.
Ha!  Thanks. That's so weird.

Did you listen to the CNN report, that was included at the end of the article?  Perhaps anyone interested should, before they go thinking such an endeavor could possibly be true...  Unfortunately, this is where rumours start, that increase people's blood pressure and feelings of hatred...  Not that I don't understand how many of you feel...with some empathy.  But I see no point in fueling the fire, with absurdities. Just my humble opinion...
Anne C. (Toronto, ON Canada)

It's actually not just your humble opinion, Anne. Thank you for a word of non-knee-jerk sanity. One should never allow unfounded gossip and rumors to make one hate.  Not only CNN says it's nonsense... even the Stars and Stripes took the time to investigate and call it untrue- http://www.stripes.com/blogs/the-rumor-doctor/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348/are-taliban-training-monkeys-to-kill-u-s-troops-1.110933  

Fall will be here soon

it will NOT.

(from Chicago, where the climate is for amphibians or something. Not people.)

Am I correct that no one has witnessed a kill by C.? I haven't had much time to read lately...
Has she seemed to be trying to hunt in earnest yet or is she still just terrorizing ducks and branches and things?
thanks. dale

two thoughts:
1. that's totally insane.
2. this kind of stuff is probably going on all the time

Thanks for all the birthday greetings, everyone. It was a very enjoyable 21st birthday for me.

well, you can't be too old. Your long-term memory is terrific!

Thank you, Shaky, for all the unbelievably good work, and for the silliness!!

Have a great year!

if you see Yarak this week, wish him a happy birthday too! ;)

"The chicks will spend the remainder of the summer at the refuge, under the watchful eye and supervision of costumed staff from ICF and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service."

the watchful, yet costumed eye and supervision of
staff (costumed) from the International Costumed Foundation and the
U.S. Costumed Fish and
Costumed Wildlife Service, that is. Them, and their costumes.

Nothing is what is seems in Wisconsin.

Dale

Sometimes the fish is a really big one and it will drag the osprey down to drown.

Stop. Hold on. The bird will not let GO?
What mother of all design flaws are we talking about here?

dale

thanks!...and it led me to these: (!!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMOvS9BeHiY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjEld1kYzOA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDjMbyFia0E
I know that a lot of what's going on here (besides the hissing and snapping, which is self-explanatory) is the owlets just learning to use their fancy equipment, but it gives you a very...specific...feeling, doesn't it?

dale

thanks, all, for the reports, and thanks, ginha, for the album!!! I got to see everyone I missed this year!  Looks like a great time was had...

especially #s 7-11. Terrific!! Thanks, Janet. I've never watched osprey, so it's new to me.

OH!!! thank you!!!
Did you see those ribbons, with sharp edges?
and all the rest! this sort of flying is my favorite - of course I've never seen a performance like that before...

dale

is that a toad or a frog? whatever it was, it was great. the whole thing was! It had representative samples: one amphibian, one juvenile falcon, one adult falcon, one yawn, one poop. Full set!  Great, Paul. Thanks!

they're very cool. so yellow.

Three out of 7 - and they just disappear...I assume predation...is anything known about who takes them?

Thanks, Gayle!