Thank you for that information too!   Another excuse for me to go back to Wild Wings! 

No hatches this year, but images of Beauty and Archer together in the sunrise still do wonders for me.

Paul

I agree, Paul.  I loved the picture that was on the home page for a while this year.  I think it was taken last August.  Archer greeting Beauty at the nestbox at sunrise.   Donna, can you find that picture?  I loved that picture, especially when it got dark and dreary -- as it does here -- in the fall and winter.

Beautiful pictures of the hummers.  Like the goldfinch too! I will look for that feeder.  Thanks for sharing, ginha.

"He went that-a-way!"

  This is good!

It has been a difficult year here in Rochester, but also in all the other sites with our pefas.    So sad.

Beautiful shot of  your hummer, ginha!. Lucky you.  I tried for years to attract them with the right kind of feeder, the right kind of flowers, but saw few.  My neighbor attracts them by the "flock"   and I see more hummers  now than I ever did.  Funny thing is,  I used the  red colored hummer feeding stuff, and my neighbor just made her own sugar water.   

Does anyone know how it got the name a "murder" of crows?  Isn't that the word?    I guess I've never looked into that....

“A ‘murder’ of crows is based on the persistent but fallacious folk tale that crows form tribunals to judge and punish the bad behavior of a member of the flock. If the verdict goes against the defendant, that bird is killed (murdered) by the flock. The basis in fact is probably that occasionally crows will kill a dying crow who doesn’t belong in their territory or much more commonly feed on carcasses of dead crows. Also, both crows and ravens are associated with battlefields, medieval hospitals, execution sites and cemeteries (because they scavenged on human remains). In England, a tombstone is sometimes called a ravenstone.�

http://www.ascaronline.org/crowfaq.htm

Very interesting reading!  Thanks, Dale!

Thank you, Dale!   You answered my question!

Gotta love those Crow spp!

That's what I thought, Bobbie,  Aren't crows and magpies related?   Are magpies only found in the UK? 
I have always found them fascinating, and I love crows.  There is something about them ...devilish maybe? 
Intelligent?   

Thank you for the update Kat.   Does the transmitter look like it is hanging off or ready to drop off? 
I miss watching/viewing little Harlequin, so lucky you to be up close and personal.

Happy Feet goes for his first swim since capture.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/5338724/Weather-perfect-for-Happy-Feet Video

I saw that.  Even our 13 WHAM here did a piece on the 11  O'clock news on Happy Feet on Monday night!
It was nice to see him swimming and looking good!

Member Siobhan Ruck wrote after a loss in San Francisco in 2009, "Hi's life may have been brief, but every single minute of it was spent as a peregrine falcon. You can't do much better than that..."

Paul

Lovely quote, Paul.  Thank you for sharing at this sad time. We need to keep that in mind this year.

Looks like Sunshine.

I can't help but wonder if they somehow know we're sad and need to see them.  I logically know they can't really know we can see them, but still...haven't seen a juvie on the ledge in weeks and here they are...

   It's called divine intervention Ei!   


Never doubt birds.  They knew we were feeling the loss of Kate and William before her. 

And now Cinnamon...there surely is more to it than happenstance!

Long time no see Suzanne! I'm very sorry about your little crow family. The whole bird world has taken it's share of hits this year! I can report that the crows are coming back in earnest to Washington Square park to roost at night and lining the rail on top of the Frontier building when I arrive before dawn. 

It is sad to hear about your crows, but there is an abundance of crows around here.  I love crows.  They are so smart and so "clan-ish".  They LOVE their families!  The young and the oldsters stick together.      I love to see the crows in the park outside of GEVA Theater.  Is that Washington Park, MAK, and i don't know the name?    Late at night it seems there are thousands in the trees out there. 

Does anyone know how it got the name a "murder" of crows?  Isn't that the word?    I guess I've never looked into that....

Can I second that - by P Hamilton?  And by Carol?   Yes!  Yes!  Yes!

 

Fly free, little bird.  We  mourn all of  you.  May you all meet somewhere and soar together!  At least that is what I envision and hope for all of youl (This includes my own parrots and  birds who have shared my life and my yard).