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Rochester Falcons / Rochester Falcon Offspring / Re: Quest and Kendal - Toronto/Don Mills
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on: 16-Oct-11, 10:25:38 PM
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I'm so glad they have a new nest box for the new nest season--- here before we know it!
And if they decide to stay around, perhaps they will use it this winter.
Size wise - our perception may be off. Until I saw the men standing next to the old next box, I didn't realize how BIG it was. I thought it was kind of small. So this new one is probably close to the size that A and B have on TS building. It actually resembles more of our type ROC box than the ones I have seen in Canadian sites.
So did CPR put up this new nest or did Harlequin? I wonder if Quest and Kendal will visit now or spend time in it.
And what's up with the cam?
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Rochester Falcons / Falcon Watches / Twitter 2011
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on: 16-Oct-11, 09:19:34 PM
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MAKfalcon (MAK): Doesn't matter I just want to know she is ok cuz Carol left and u are the only one still out to check for me Was it Beauty and Unity fighting or another female? If B was found in the same place, does that mean it was a different female battling with Unity? Was it a sure ID on Archer? I don't think we know for sure yet. Sounds to me like Beauty was found in the same place the watchers left her before going to KP. |
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Member Activities / Events / Re: "Lurker Come Out Week" This means you!
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on: 12-Oct-11, 09:03:00 PM
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I am a long time lurker. I first joined the old Kodak board, and I am a member on the Yahoo board also. I used to post something once in a while on that board, but I have never posted on this board. I love to read it, and I keep up, but I have never really figured out how this board works, so I don't post. I used to always say a big "Thank You" to all the fabulous watchers on Lurker Come Out Day. I will do that now.
I check in on a number of cams but this one is so superior because the watchers fill in the whole story, not just the events in the nestbox. I am a very grateful lurker for all that the active members do. Mary Alice in Charlotte (that's North Carolina)
Mary Alice in NC - I consider myself a "techno-moron" ( I really do use that term to describe myself at work). There are many things I do not know, but once you get used to it, this is fairly easy to navigate. Don't be shy about posting your thoughts, opinions, feelings, about what you see. YAY, welcome MaryAlice, so glad you posted. Thank you and please keep trying with this forum, it gets real easy after a few posts.  Please, lurk no more! |
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Member Activities / Events / Re: "Lurker Come Out Week" This means you!
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on: 12-Oct-11, 08:57:05 PM
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Donna, wouldn't the "on line stats" tell you who really is lurking and who is gone forever??
My on line time is right up there with the regular posters and I almost never make any
comments. I really do qualify as a lurker!
It's funny, NYC -- to me, you are not a lurker. I see your posts, and consider you a "regular". Not frequent, but a regular with great posts. . it is funny, I do post, and love our falcons, but consider myself a "lurker" too. I would love to be more active in observing our falcons right down on the "scene" but I can't right now. So maybe we have to define "lurker". |
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Other Nature Related Information / General Nature Discussion / Re: Wasn't expecting this! Poor babies.
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on: 12-Oct-11, 08:38:31 PM
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Barnacle Geese grace our shores every winter - mostly in the NW, around Donegal. And we have long been familiar with the goslings' "running of the gauntlet". WHAT was Mother Nature thinking when she made the decision to have them do THIS? Yet many make it. They are a lovely little goose. (Must admit I did not watch the film...)
Bobbie, have you ever read Annie Dillard's "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"? She's an amazing essayist...here's a quote: If an aphid lays a million eggs, several might survive. Now, my right hand, in all its human cunning, could not make one aphid in a thousand years. But these aphid eggs--which run less than a dime a dozen, which run absolutely free--can make aphids as effortlessly as the sea makes waves. Wonderful things, wasted. It's a wretched system. ... "Say you are the manager of Southern Railroad. You figure that you need three engines for a stretch of track between Lynchburg and Danville. It's a mighty steep grade. So at fantastic effort and expense you have your shops make nine thousand engines. Each engine must be fashioned just so, every rivet and bolt secure, every wire twisted and wrapped, every needle on every indicator sensitive and accurate. "You send all nine thousand of them out on the runs. Although there are engineers at the throttles, no one is manning the switches. The engines crash, collide, derail, jam, burn... At the end of the massacre you have three engines, which is what the run could support in the first place. There are few enough of them that they can stay out of each others' paths. "You go to your board of directors and show them what you've done. And what are they going to say? They're going to say: It's a hell of a way to run a railroad. "Is it a better way to run a universe? --Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974 Thank you, Patti, for reminding me of Annie Dillard and ALL of her essays. Wonderful writer. Yes, Bobbie, go find her writing. You will enjoy it if you have not read her before. |
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Member Activities / Events / Re: "Lurker Come Out Week" This means you!
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on: 10-Oct-11, 10:43:09 PM
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Get busy with at least stooping in to say hi!
Did you mean to say that? I have visions of people swooping into the forum at 200 mph, posting and rising off again!  And, apparently, making contact only 20% of the time.  Yeah, I am wondering about that 20 percent thing too. They have such speed, and birds have such eyesight -- where did that percentage come from? It seems rather low. |
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Other Nature Related Information / General Nature Discussion / Re: OK, this is cracking me up!! 2 parrots talking to each other!!
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on: 10-Oct-11, 10:35:29 PM
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This is so funny! It would drive me nuts, though, to have them here at home (not really).
My 22 year old Doc-bird says, "good", "no" go-poop" and imitates a whole bunch of sounds like my laugh, kisses, a spoon against a coffee cup, glasses clinking together, and he is a male. The male birds are supposed to be better at talking. My best "talker" was the little parakeet my daughter brought home when she was in high school. She rescued Pepe from a pet shop. He had been attacked by another bird and had a torn cere.
Pepe lived a good life with all of us, and by the time he passed, spoke about 44 phrases..."let's dance" "time to go night, night" "give me a kiss" "I love you" "Where's Doc?" "Where's Winnie"? "Pretty bird" "What's up Doc?" and many more. Writing this makes me want to find the list I had of all Pepe's phrases. Birds are pretty amazing creatures. The ones we raise in our homes, and the ones we watch outdoors.
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Other Nature Related Information / General Nature Discussion / Re: Peregrine on hunt
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on: 10-Oct-11, 10:20:58 PM
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You are right ! A breath-taking video, but is that really correct? At he end, the narrator says that "despite their speed, the PeFalcon only has a 20 percent strike rate." So they must be continually in hunt mode especially if they are feeding young ones? I learned something new tonight. |
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