And, as you all know I believe, Seneca...and Warrior for that matter...is alive and well until proven otherwise.

Rhea Mae is at home

Missed her take off...

Rhea Mae is at home

http://youtu.be/4FNwcZKlVZQ

http://youtu.be/fwjTO0oF800

Crow angels!

Fields and Forests: Decorah eagle cam no-go

http://host.madison.com/sports/recreation/outdoors/fields-and-forests-decorah-eagle-cam-no-go/article_424c1464-77f2-11e2-a52e-001a4bcf887a.html

Bob Anderson, executive director of the Raptor Resource Project, made the call Friday morning that “we will not have a Decorah eagle cam this year.�

He said the pair of eagles had been bouncing back and forth between the old nest, where they fledged three eaglets in 2012, and a new auxiliary nest a few hundred feet away.   

At least they're nesting even if we can't see it...

2 eggs as of Friday...

February 15 – Mme. Owl returned to the nest at 6:46 AM CST. Prior to that time, her mate made several unsuccessful attempts to deliver caterpillars to her in the nest box.

She spent part of the noon hour on the perch again, but only for four minutes. At all other times, she was on top of the egg, but not in a brooding posture.

By 6:25 PM she seemed interested in leaving the nest for the night. She exited at 6:39 PM and returned at 6:43 PM. There was a good reason: Egg no. 2 was laid sometime between 6:44 PM and 7:19 PM CST, I’ve never seen a screech owl laying an egg, so I have no idea what the process might look or sound like to an independent observer, or even how long it might take. Nonetheless, after reviewing the video captured during that time period that, I’m confident that some vital part of the laying process occurred at 7:13:59 PM CST. The video segments captured during that time are linked to below. See what you think.

  [go to his main page for the links]

Video recording is triggered by significant motion, therefore the gaps between these consecutive recordings represent periods during which Mme. Owl moved little.

She stayed with the eggs until 8:27 PM, left for seven minutes, stayed with the eggs again until 8:55 PM, and then she left the nest for the evening.

Not here.

Are you there yet Shaky or on your way soon?

This is from the balcony of  the hotel where I spent the night. I'll be heading to the cruise port in an hour.

What ports are on the itinerary this time?

The Bahamas, St. Thomas, St. Maarten, Grand Turk.

Sweet! Have fun!

Not here.

Are you there yet Shaky or on your way soon?

This is from the balcony of  the hotel where I spent the night. I'll be heading to the cruise port in an hour.

What ports are on the itinerary this time?

VIRGINIA BEACH

Citizen scientists have done it again!

This time, a group of eagle watchers at Honey Bee Golf Club have learned that one of the bald eagles born and banded at Norfolk Botanical Garden is establishing nesting territory at the golf course.

How young eagles establish nesting territory is not well known. But our dedicated citizen scientists who have cameras that can pick up bird bands and their numbers are adding information to the puzzle.

Reese Lukei, a volunteer research associate with the Center for Conservation Biology in Williamsburg, keeps an eye on local eagles. He writes a blog, http://eaglenest.blogs.wm.edu, for the center about the eagles that were banded over the years in the garden's nests.

In a recent blog, Lukei wrote about "HK," one of the eagles that was banded at the garden four years ago. HK has been photographed often carrying sticks and even building a nest at Honey Bee.

What excellent news! And I'm glad to see he's settling somewhere that the faithful followers of NBG can follow HK!

Not here.

Are you there yet Shaky or on your way soon?

"Groucho and Fancy were at their roost Sunday. At 4:12PM they took off after a stray juvenile RTH. One of the falcons returned to perch at 4:15PM. Good birding, Mitch Nusbaum" Feb 10.

Via Tom McKay & the OneidaBirds list.

Who's this??  ???

I don't think it's a pefa. My first instinct is to say Cooper's hawk, though the chest doesn't appear as striped as I would expect...

I can't imagine what I might think, though I might actually have thought meteor. The past few weeks I've seen reports of a close call meteor arriving around the end of the week. When I first heard the reports this morning that's the first thing I thought of...piece broke off the main meteor. The main one went by this morning. I did just hear on the news that it was just a coincidence...the 2 meteors were coming from opposite directions.

  Looks like Quest, posted by Ruud Stam on the Slechtvalken Wereldwijd page.

Yup-that's her! White feathers on the back of her head...