Well, if it is Pigott...and I'm still hoping not...but if a fight between Beauty & Pigott was going to happen and only one survive I'm glad it happened now rather than after the season was already under way.

10:21 with a full crop Ei

[Chimp will only go out in the snow with a blanket]

(author won't allow embedding PFFFT!)

 Chimp will only go out in the snow with a blanket
During the recent snowy spell, Nakima the chimp at the Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary in Swansea has taken to refusing to go outside without her blanket.


http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2013/01/chimp-will-only-go-out-in-snow-with.html

I hear it may go condo, so if you want to spend 24/7 with the falcons and the Phillipone building isn't classy enough for you, go with Gannett!

Phillipone's going condo too? Hmmm....

Just before takeoff

(can't access photo sites @ work-will do this properly when I get home)

   

Rhea Mae is home!

But Ei, you can come here to see Diamante! And Ojibwa and mate, and Jean, and Gleig, and BB and Yankee then hop over to NF for Onyx and Diamond, and more!   Get more Peregrines-per-mile in Buffalo! 

Oh I will...absolutely going to make the rounds this year!

Evicted Norfolk eagle refuses to leave botanical garden

The group worries about the pair's chances of producing offspring this season and fears the female might resort to laying an egg on the ground, Senechal said.

That's not the USDA's chief concern, Barras said. He noted that bald eagles are no longer on the state's list of threatened and endangered species and said that one unproductive year for the garden's eagles will not hurt Virginia's eagle population.  (Pfft)

TWO unproductive seasons-no eggs last year either...

I don't know the song(s) and can't make out all the bird's words without knowing them -- something about "over the whole world" and "the bird of happiness of tomorrow"...lots of "bravo"s and "brava"s from the bird and "there you go, good boy/girl" from the owner. Sure can carry a tune, though, huh!

Excellent! I love knowing even a little bit of it!

I still get teary eyed seeing Diamante. I really thought we were done discovering M&K offspring out there. Not that there aren't more...just we don't know where they are.

Looks like he has white on the back of his head like Quest.

 

http://youtu.be/GO3JlMhsPk8

Only one of us can even maybe come close to interpreting this one!

(At least as far as I know LOL!)

http://englishrussia.com/2013/01/08/the-best-pictures-of-the-russian-nature-2012/

Here you go!

 

I especially liked the ones of Beauty taking off from Mercury!  

Wasn't it landing on Merc, unless she flew backwards! Hmm

Re-watch the video clip...it was takeoff...amazing!

I did and I still say she is landing, unless Beauty has learned to fly backwards!  

Sher DID fly backward...well, glided...no flapping involved...opened her wings and whoosh!