More thoughts from Birdchick

http://www.birdchick.com/wp/2011/01/bird-die-offs/

I'll use that too when I want to be sure I didn't miss anything.  I use KFC when I know there's a small handful and I want to scan them quickly for what I know I saw on the list before the list disappeared...

What about View As Unthreaded from the FORUM menu?

It shows the whole post, so it can take several plus pages.  And if there are particular posts that I choose to not look at, particularly those with embedded pictures that I don't care to look at, I can't avoid looking at them scrolling through that way.  For instance, during the oil spill crisis, I personally did not want to see any more pictures of oil soaked birds and animals.  Not that I wasn't as concerned and saddened as anyone else-I certainly was-but it was giving me nightmares, so I chose to avoid those posts.  I couldn't escape them in the view unthreaded view (except those with attachments, but we don't want to use that as it wastes space).

The KFC summary format allows me to browse the titles/first line and decide if I want to see the full version.

This, of course, is only when I don't keep up on my show unread posts which doesn't happen often. 

Ei

This usually works for me.

This is what I use too, Shaky. Even when I haven't logged out, it sometimes shows nothing to read and when I click this, a whole bunch of unread topics will appear.

I'll use that too when I want to be sure I didn't miss anything.  I use KFC when I know there's a small handful and I want to scan them quickly for what I know I saw on the list before the list disappeared...

Ei

It will do that if you log out before looking at everything you want to read-it's counting the last visit (log-in), not whether you opened everything on the list.  At home I'm logged in all the time, but at work the network will "dump" my log-in every so often.  And I have that happen when I don't read what's on the list at work, then log-in at home-the list is cleared since the "visit" count was on the work 'puter. 

Now, don't tell Shaky, but when that happens & I know there's a bunch of stuff I'm missing, I go to the KFC board & scroll through the highlights for what I missed...

Ei

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184

posted without further comment...

Ei

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Found this today on the Daily Squee



Guira Cuckoo

From Wikipedia:

The Guira Cuckoo (Guira guira) is a social, non-parasitic cuckoo found widely in open and semi-open habitats of eastern and southern Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and north-eastern Argentina. It is monotypic within the genus Guira, and is related to the anis.

It has whitish-buff underparts and rump, dark brownish upperparts, a broadly white-tipped dark tail that is relatively long, an orange-rufous crest, bare yellow ocular-skin (commonly fades in captivity), and a relatively heavy, orange-yellow bill. It is generally rather shaggy-looking and has a total length of approximately 34 cm (13 in). Like other members of the subfamily Crotophaginae, the Guira Cuckoo gives off a strong, pungent odour.

Ei

Birdchick weighs in on the loss of the Arkansas blackbirds...

http://www.birdchick.com/wp/2011/01/aflockalypse-now/

Ei

[She strongly believes that all "silly" males ,animal and human alike, get into trouble without their mom, and the young females do much better on their own early on.]

A young red tail was stuck in an air shaft between apartment buildings in NYC.  The story of the rescue can be found at the Palemale Irregulars blog

But I enjoyed this quote from the rehabber Bobby Horvath...

"I'm sure he didn't have many more days left in him with no food or water and would have eventually ended up grounded and possibly too late to save.

I'm pretty sure its a boy and as Cathy [Bobby' wife and fellow rehabilitator. D.B.] will tell you that's the sex we seem to get in the most this time of year. Of the 8 redtails we've gotten in the past month, 6 were juvenile males. She strongly believes that all "silly" males ,animal and human alike, get into trouble without their mom, and the young females do much better on their own early on. She may have a point. I cannot win this argument and I cannot vouch for other rehabbers numbers either. In any event we'll do our best and hopefully this one can go back but it probably won't be released until it molts because of the damaged primaries, due to confined space."

Ei

Snowing yet again in the fair city of Rochester, NY.  No visits at the nest box by Beauty or her friend yet today and I couldn't spot any falcons from KO South this morning.  I'll look again this afternoon.
Carol P.

By the way...I was in another RFC section yesterday and spotted this note about last winter...

2010 - Beauty remains in Rochester for the winter. An unbanded adult male courts her in late February but disappers a few weeks later. Archer arrives in late March.

[EDIT All who attended the first falcon watch of the New Year:]

And some highlight clips...

Falcon flyover http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11766381/highlight/137404

Group photo http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11766381/highlight/137403

Ei

EDIT  All who attended the first falcon watch of the New Year:  Dan, Carol P, Larry O+Cleo, Lou & Dana, Shaky & Carrie, Kathy O, Lisa, Joyce+Abby/Casey, Jeanne, Suzanne & Don, Suzanne's sister (Catherine?) & two nephews, Lynda & Tim, Marcia, Dawn+Bullet

Carol got everyone to stand in the rain.

True Falcon Flakes!  Tell her thank you!

Do the bird!  Thanks!

Have the first flakes arrived?

Thanks for creating the highlights, Ei!

Any time!  (Now that I figured out how to do it)

Cam 1 is in position!  It looks like it will be a rainy toast, but we don't (lovingly) call them Falcon Flakes for nothing!