Wow! What a fabulous retirement gift!

Excellent Annette! 

I'll tag onto this subject and post the videos from Ustream

http://youtu.be/Ebc_Z1k31Bo

http://youtu.be/Q7pxlqnCVjI

http://youtu.be/YzRE06e6ahM

I'd love to know Beauty's reason for not feeding this baby all day.

She is still very much on guard. They snuck up on her...they stole her baby...baby came back but her eggs are still missing...

While I can't begin to think like a mother bird, it does seem to me that guarding against further intruders is taking priority in her mind.  We know they aren't coming back, but she doesn't.

Just my thoughts.

There was no reason not to feed him before the banding-that wasn't until almost noon. She's been feeding him early AM. It was so hot today-always the fear of dehydration.

Thinking like the human that I am, she might have made a different choice this morning if she knew the rest of the day was going to be taken up with nest defense. But she's a bird-who knows why they do or don't do things at the exact same time every day. Maybe the prey birds slept in this morning for whatever reason. I have to have faith that Beauty knows how to raise a baby bird.

Maybe she thought he ate the eggs and didn't need anymore to eat! Lol! Friday the 13th certainly wasn't a good day for this baby!

And that he ate all the nestover scraps that the banders took out-there was a lot of "good" food there

I'd love to know Beauty's reason for not feeding this baby all day.

She is still very much on guard. They snuck up on her...they stole her baby...baby came back but her eggs are still missing...

While I can't begin to think like a mother bird, it does seem to me that guarding against further intruders is taking priority in her mind.  We know they aren't coming back, but she doesn't.

Just my thoughts.

There was no reason not to feed him before the banding-that wasn't until almost noon. She's been feeding him early AM. It was so hot today-always the fear of dehydration.

Thinking like the human that I am, she might have made a different choice this morning if she knew the rest of the day was going to be taken up with nest defense. But she's a bird-who knows why they do or don't do things at the exact same time every day. Maybe the prey birds slept in this morning for whatever reason. I have to have faith that Beauty knows how to raise a baby bird.

I'd love to know Beauty's reason for not feeding this baby all day.

She is still very much on guard. They snuck up on her...they stole her baby...baby came back but her eggs are still missing...

While I can't begin to think like a mother bird, it does seem to me that guarding against further intruders is taking priority in her mind.  We know they aren't coming back, but she doesn't.  

Just my thoughts.

It's OK-I'll just suck my thumb 

Look at that face!

I still cannot believe how quiet the banders were! They were out there, brooms up-Beauty didn't know they were there until the ladder tapped the box. 

Voting will be coming this morning. The committee finally narrowed down the names yesterday. I couldn't post the poll last night because I didn't have Internet where I spent the night.

   How did you survive?

All kidding aside-Baby will be fine with TBD as her name for a day or so!

I had a feeling they were going to call one night & say "We're coming tomorrow..."

Baby will be banded-name to be determined-it's all good!

http://youtu.be/oJIarYVq9tY

Mostly a nap, but...cute the way she uses her tail for balance!

Check out the legs & feet on this baby...looking pretty close to the same size as Beauty....

Just my opinion, of course 

[The Rescued Raccoon Who Is About To Make Your Day]

This story is quoted from The Rescued Raccoon Who Is About To Make Your Day

This story starts off incredibly sad: this raccoon was found in the under-cabin of a boat at an impounded marina, in a filthy cage full of rotten food where he had been living since he was a baby. Harbor was left 80% blind due to his poor nutrition and lack of sunlight, and he was turned over to rehabilitator, MaryEllen Schoeman, who named him Harbor. In his new home, Harbor didn't just recover well enough to survive, he found a boundless exuberance and a love of life that should inspire us all.



http://youtu.be/uOtT_wopdcA

Schoeman determined that it would be some time, if ever, before Harbor could be released back into the wild, so she built him this outdoor enclosure. "I was astounded, and continue to be, at his utterly incredible capacity for joy. He plays, ecstatically, with anything at hand, and accepts everything that comes into his life with an open heart."



http://youtu.be/XU5WAkPM5Fg

"I have worked with raccoons for many years, and I can honestly say that I have never encountered one who greets each day with such happiness, and who loves so fully and so deeply. He loves his pool, his toys and every single person he meets." -MaryEllen Schoeman



More videos at Mary Ellen's Youtube channel

http://youtu.be/fo5OfvqSlKU

yaaaaay, new RonRon video!!! Poor summer foxie has shed out all the winter undercoat, and is left with the typical scrawny summer fox look, with short new fur close to the skin, and old longer thinned out hairs left from last winter, until they fall out one by one.

I luff coming home to my foxie, always so happy to see me, running around like this, and then throwing himself at my feet, for scritchings xD Here, I get his eeeears really good.... I LOVE THOSE EARS!!!