[Aargh! This makes me sick!!! Dot in PA]

I spotted this over on Birdchick

Operation Migration vandalized

Wisconsin State Journal Article


"The Operation Migration effort that is escorting young whooping cranes to refuges in Florida, already beset by weather-caused delays, received a major blow this week when a break-in and heavy damage from vandalism was discovered at its Necedah aircraft hangar..."

Aargh!  This makes me sick!!! 

Dot in PA

[It looks as if there's a door in the front that has been fastened shut. How on earth would Quest recognize this as a nest box?? Or am I looking at the back of the nest box in these photos? I'm easily confused ... Dot in PA]

Don't forget to check the comments in Imprints.  Lennoxman has such a sense of humor and his last post included pics from a peregrine's eye view from the top of the Lennox Power Plant where the nestbox is. 

It looks as if there's a door in the front that has been fastened shut.  How on earth would Quest recognize this as a nest box??  Or am I looking at the back of the nest box in these photos?  I'm easily confused ... 

Dot in PA

[ALL]

I am thankful for ALL of our dedicated watchers in Rochester, Toronto, on Lake Ontario, and on ...

I am thankful for Aafka for all of her stork updates, photos, puzzles, and BD Greetings ....

I am thankful for Carol and Brian and their Easter Sunday heroics .....

I am thankful for Shaky and everyone who both keep this board running and put up with our crap ...

I am thankful for Donna for finding all of the interesting tidbits to keep this board interesting ...

I am thankful for the friendships that have developed from the board ...

I am thankful for all of the gifts (which you and our beloved falcons are a part of) that I have been Blessed to receive.

Thank You All and Amen!  Janet   

Me too!  Your words perfectly express how I feel.   Thank you everyone!

Dot in PA

[Cookiecat is a beauty! :I like her long tongue and the photos of her being held so we can see how huge she is!Dot in PA]

Hi fellow falcon watchers!  I'm a Buffalo falcon watcher!

   Did I hear mention of a round-eyed cat?  Cookiecat wants to be introduced!

Cookiecat is a beauty!  :I like her long tongue and the photos of her being held so we can see how huge she is!

Dot in PA

[Those children are very talented and the art was beautiful. for posting this link.Dot in PA]

http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca/programs/education/hallfame.html

These are amazing 

Those children are very talented and the art was beautiful.    for posting this link.

Dot in PA

[Lou, that may be the most beautiful footage I've ever seen! I've watched it a few times just to watch how the feathers move. Thanks for sharing.Dot in PA]

Wow. This is some footage. Can't imagine being on the receiving end...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA6XSrM0V_0

Lou

  Lou, that may be the most beautiful footage I've ever seen!  I've watched it a few times just to watch how the feathers move.  Thanks for sharing.

Dot in PA

[I'm so glad you posted these adorable pictures! I've never even seen a hedgehog up close, let alone a tiny rolled-up baby with the cutest face imaginable. Dot in PA]

                              
I just received these pictures with a warning to be careful outside and wait for (baby) hedgehogs.
greetings Aafke
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I'm so glad you posted these adorable pictures!  I've never even seen a hedgehog up close, let alone a tiny rolled-up baby with the cutest face imaginable.

Dot in PA

I want to make one of these. I have the cage type and the bigger woodpeckers wont use it.

 Many feed stores like Agway sell a larger size cage that the bigger woodpeckers like the hairy and red-bellied will use.  Even so, that's not really big enough for a pileated woodpecker to get comfortable on.  If you make the suet log, make sure it's plenty long enough for a big woody.  Even if you're too urban for a pileated, other woodpeckers can share it instead of allowing only one at a time.

Dot in PA

[I've used a log like that for many years and it has always been extremely popular. Suet is a really nutritional bird food. I don't put perches on my logs, though. Woodpeckers, chickadees, nuthatches, and titmice don't need a perch - they cling to the bark with no problem. The directions given for making suet have you render it (that's why the cooking) but that's not really necessary either unless you plan to use molds to make a specific size suet cake. Uncooked suet goes easily into the holes even though it can be a bit messy. It freezes well, too. Grocery store meat departments used to give suet away free for the asking, but now, unless I get lucky at a butcher's shop, I usually have to buy it at Wegmans.Dot in PA]

  I've used a log like that for many years and it has always been extremely popular.  Suet is a really nutritional bird food.  I don't put perches on my logs, though.  Woodpeckers, chickadees, nuthatches, and titmice don't need a perch - they cling to the bark with no problem.  The directions given for making suet have you render it (that's why the cooking) but that's not really necessary either unless you plan to use molds to make a specific size suet cake.  Uncooked suet goes easily into the holes even though it can be a bit messy.  It freezes well, too.  Grocery store meat departments used to give suet away free for the asking, but now, unless I get lucky at a butcher's shop, I usually have to buy it at Wegmans.

Dot in PA

[Donna, where on earth do you find these wonderful stories?? Thank you for searching out such interesting info for us. Dot in PA]

Donna, where on earth do you find these wonderful stories?? Thank you for searching out such interesting info for us.

Dot in PA

  Donna, that was interesting, very depressing, and definitely scary. 

Dot in PA

[Just got this very good news from Bat Conservation Times:]

 Just got this very good news from Bat Conservation Times:

The U.S. Congress has approved $1.9 million in federal funding for research to identify the cause and seek solutions to White-nose Syndrome – the disease that is devastating bat populations throughout the northeastern United States and threatening bat species across North America.
 
The funds, included in the final version of the 2010 Interior and Environment Appropriations bill, mark a dramatic increase from the initial allocation of just $500,000 for monitoring affected bat populations. The WNS-research support was added by a joint committee that resolved differences between House and Senate versions of the bill. Both houses of Congress approved it on Thursday (October 29).
 
The bill now goes to President Obama, who is expected to sign it into law.

Dot in PA

I'm sure this is important work but this part of it really bothers me 


 the researchers performed surgeries on the birds to deactivate one of the two systems. The team either severed the nerve that connects the beak cells to the brain, or damaged the brain cells in cluster N

Me too!

Dot in PA

From Refuge Watch ...

In a pleasant surprise from Congress, the just-passed “FY 2010 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill� will give the National Wildlife Refuge System a budget increase of $40 million, which was the higher amount that the House passed earlier this year.

    

Dot in PA

Sure hope the vinegar solution turns out to be effective in the large-scale tests.  Bats have been forced to attempt to survive so many human activities that it breaks my heart to see them dying in such large numbers from white-nose syndrome.

Dot in PA