I was looking for a book that I remember fondly from childhood, when I came across this video of a man reading it... great voices, and it still makes me laugh!

"Stand Back," Said the Elephant "I'm Going to Sneeze" by Patricia Wallace

Enjoy!
ezsha

We were recording on stream 1 until 3:50AM. Due to problems with Main Camera and Camera 2, it shows the view from Camera 3 only.

I was wondering what was happening before 11:06 last night, but couldn't get an angle on it...  I had both ustream players running, but didn't get a good look at cam 2 or 3 while she was turning, and no cam 1 at that point...that's about when she left the one egg uncovered for a while...

 

[Heh,heh,hee. That surely looks like a small orca. Nice joke !! Lola]

Heh,heh,hee.  That surely looks like a small orca.  Nice joke !! Lola

here are a couple of tree swallows for you, then

Now that's what I call a "bird bath"!

Anyone have any tips on how I can view this?  I'm on a laptop with a touch pad (no scroll), and I can't get far enough down on the page to see the screech owl section.

Thanks!
ezsha

If you want something to do this weekend, I'm highly recommending Linwood Gardens. (Think Sonnenberg gone wild - formal bones with a wilderness feel.) It is a private estate (originally built as a summer estate for the Buffalo Gratwicks) that only opens for this festival, and it sits on the western edge of the Genesee Valley, looking over the Finger Lakes.



There's one more weekend to attend this festival.  Although most of the tree peony blooms are gone, there is an amazing variety of trees on the property - 113 different species from around the world, including cedars of Lebanon, copper beech, Kentucky coffee, Siberian crab apple, quaking aspen, and dozens of varieties of boxwood, many of which were hybridized on the property.

It's a beautiful 45 minute drive out southwest of Rochester, and you can come for lunch! If it gets damp, you can always eat in the oak room! (400 year old hand-carved woodwork, including an impressive mantle and parquet floors, all saved and imported from a demolished English manor house or palace, depending on which version of the story you hear...)



There's a slide show that the Rochester Nature Photography Meetup group posted from the first weekend:
http://www.meetup.com/naturephotography/photos/928770/
There are links to slide shows from the last two years as well on Linwood's festival page.

Grounds are open at 9 and close at 5 on both Saturday and Sunday.  Please leave any pets at home, as parking is only in full sun, and there are other animals on the property.

I hope to see you there! (I'm the younger really tall female that hangs around in the house, and occasionally does tours.)

ezsha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gppbrYIcR80&feature=player_embedded

What a difference in siblings! (Cuteness warning!)

Happy birthday, Carol, and thank you for mentoring the new human hatches on the streaming video!

Over at 5:14, but she brought some kind of organ back with her, and dropped it on the stones behind her baby (look in front of her right wing, to the right of the white fluff).

From the cache under the Main Camera

Someone shows up with a pigeon at 3:31, which Beauty promptly feeds to the little ones.  At 3:41, he shows up with another pigeon (or is it just leftovers?), which they don't need, as they just ate. It gets cached under the Main Cam

(movie)

Beauty comes out later, at 4:57, and has supper.

(movie)

What is under the Main Cam?

There could be a pip under the feather, or maybe not. 

Also, does the right end of the egg have a crack around it?

Here's a close-up!

Back up again!  Thank you!

(I'm hoping it's not the shaking from the jack hammer!)