that would explain it. Because we have problems with Flash Player.

There is a way around it if you've signed in to view an album.

Open up Kodak Gallery-or, on the top right of the slideshow screen, click on the Done button.

That will open K Gallery.  Click on the All my Albums drop down.  Go to my friends' albums & select Granny (Dana).  You should then see a thumbnail for each album...click to open the album.  Click the first picture-it should pop up a window-use the arrows at the top right to scroll through. (Hopefully that doesn't need Flash now-it used to work on my old non-flash work computer).

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From NBC Nightly News

Leaving a legacy of happiness in LeRoy

Making A Difference: In a small Minnesota town on the border with Iowa, a 94-year-old retired farmer named Loren Krueger died last year, but left behind a legacy the whole town would remember. KARE's Boyd Huppert reports.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40153870/vp/40725500#40725500

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From I can has cheezburger's year in review...

        

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X is for Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus

I never heard of this bird before but I found him in my Petersond birdbook.
The Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus or Yellow-headed Blackbird is a medium-sized blackbird.
Adults have a pointed bill. The adult male is mainly black with a yellow head and breast; they have a white wing patch sometimes only visible in flight. The adult female is mainly brown with a dull yellow throat and breast.



The X is a difficult letter but now I have (for the first time) the opportunity to start a letter.
greetings Aafke

Excellent job!  Excellent bird!

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I can only see the first picture. For some reason I can't get my computer to go on and show me more. I tried pushing the play button, the next clicking on the thumbnail. Nada.  ???

I think (not 100% sure) it has to do with Flash Player-make sure you have the latest update.  Hopefully that will help...

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Beauty on Mercury now

She left Mercury @ 5:12pm

She was back for a minute or 2 @ 5:22



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There she is!

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The voices matched the personalities perfectly!

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Follow up the Veery song...the original page where I found the video is here: http://www.musicofnature.org/home/veery_thrush/

If you scroll down the page there is another sound recording that is even more wonderful!

That second recording...wow!  I think I just discovered I have wood thrushes in my backyard!  I've heard the background/counterpoint song often, though I've never seen the bird.

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I stood in a parking lot near the Hochstein School of Music just before 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, watching crows stream overhead by the hundreds, flying in a southwesterly direction.
And I mean hundreds of them, in a long line that seemed to originate over at the river gorge somewhere to the east of WXXI.

Funny-I'm wondering if they headed over there after Beauty chased them off the Frontier office building.  Or if it might actually have been Beauty they were upset with-if my mind's eye is correct, the Hochstein School of Music is over near City Hall & the Frontier Comm Towers...

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An eastern Red Tailed Hawk, AKA White Football.

Paul

I remember Siobhan giving us that as an ID tip a few years ago (anyone ever hear from her?) ...if it looks like a white football sitting on a pole, it's a red-tail.

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I've been following this RT for years.

http://www.palemale.com/

The woman who runs this site post new pictures almost every day.

I remember the old PBS special was one of my introductions to the birding world.

I've been following them for years too.  I think many of us were first introduced to raptors through Pale Male & Lola. 

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My brother in law Gary took this pic a few minutes ago. It's always in his parking lot at work. He wants to know what it is! Thanks.

Looks like a Red-tail Hawk to me, but I could be wrong.
Carol P.

I agree-clear chest-dark spotted belly band...can't see the tail or eyes to determine age...

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Does no one do due diligence anymore?  (Not you, Donna.  You're just reporting the report)
The caption on the photo...

Pale Male & Lola at their nest on 927 Fifth Ave.
Photo: Birdjail Producitons

That photo is actually the 2 eyases of Pale Male Jr. & Charlotte on the Trump Tower nest.  Taken by Bruce Yolton, if my memory serves me correctly.  I don't recall the year. 

AAARRGGH!

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And this film by kitties facilitated by Purina...

Cat Diaries

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