Excellent news!  Thank you CPF & MNR for taking such good care of "our" baby!
 

The latest from Chris-

April 21 – As you may have noticed, owlet no. 4 was not returned to the nest last night, contrary to previous plans. Its eyes still haven’t opened. Sallie tells me that it’s possible for an owlet to naturally take this long to open its eyes, but that it is increasingly unlikely for the process to take so long. Neither of us know what, if any, conclusions can be drawn from that. Obviously, it does cause concern about what condition the owlet’s eyes will be in when they do open, so Sallie wants to hang on to no. 4 until its eyes do open and we know what that condition is.

In the meantime, Sallie has acquired another owlet a few days older than no. 4, and the plan is to place him/her in the nest at the same time we return no. 4. So, there'll be a no. 5 owlet. That should be an interesting surprise for Mme. Owl. Of course, an extra owlet will place an additional strain on the adults, so we may artificially supplement their food supply by providing a mouse or two per night. The great benefit of this arrangement is that owlet no. 5 will be raised by real owls in the wild instead of by a rehabber. Rehabbers do great work, but none will deny that an owlet, or any critter, is, all things being equal, better-off being raised naturally by and with its own kind. So this is a great opportunity for no. 5, and, in the meantime, no. 4 has some company (actually no. 4 currently has at least two “screechlets� to keep him/her company).

More, including some photos, later.

We'll hear something in due time.  CPF has relatively few people for an enormous geographic area with a lot of nests.  Reporting sometimes takes a back burner to getting things accomplished.

 

Twins 

 

Testing-I guess flickr just didn't like quest's picture-the guy in the back was doing that neck stretch thing for quite a while...

While browsing for something else I ran across this picture of Quest from banding day  

I did not record the photographer in this particular folder.

Hmmm...guess flickr has hiccups again...

Try this one...



OK-I'm deleting the originals-MAK, could you pull yours too?  Thanks!

I first saw this in my local paper, the on Icanhascheezburger

From the NBG eagle forum by ShutterbugBob

Don't know why, I think I like this picture the best  

Nah, I knew he'd show up sometime Ei. Now he has double -duty probably. Let's see how this all goes down.

Just teasing-you know that!  



He really is a handsome fellow!

The dark images are due to a faulty camera. The only way to fix the problem is to replace the camera, which cannot be done until October.  In the meantime, we'll be showing one of the other 4 cameras on Stream 1 at night.

Does this account for the main cam being stuck on the same image since 11:35 p.m. Wednesday night (currently after 3 a.m.), or is this a separate issue?

I should also have mentioned-the night streaming camera that's faulty is actually a separate camera mounted on the outside of main cam's housing. 

The dark images are due to a faulty camera. The only way to fix the problem is to replace the camera, which cannot be done until October.  In the meantime, we'll be showing one of the other 4 cameras on Stream 1 at night.

Does this account for the main cam being stuck on the same image since 11:35 p.m. Wednesday night (currently after 3 a.m.), or is this a separate issue?

The main cam has a bad habit of rebooting itself every so often.  When the streaming cam is on main you'll see a blue screen then "no memory card".  There does not appear to be any rhyme or reason to it.  Sometimes it stays "stuck" longer than others, but it's generally about 15 minutes.  At last report there had been no response from the manufacturer.  At least it deeos eventually restart.

Oh, ye of little faith...

Just for reference of what I'm talking about, this is a video by pascalger from the CMNH forum of Durand (after a bit of mating) "egg bowling"

http://www.valkvideos.nl/2011/apr-mating-cleanup.htm