Happy Birthday Dale!  Have a grand day and a year that is filled will interesting critters!

Gayle

Thanks Shaky.  I really enjoyed the tour!  I love Cape Cod.  It has been a part of my imagined idyll since I read  The Outermost House.  Your photographs of the humpback whales are outstanding!  Acadia has long been on my list.

Gayle

The two wild hatched chicks are doing well and are nearing fledging.

http://www.savingcranes.org/wild-hatched-chicks-nearing-fledging-age-august-16-2010.html

Gayle

She is amazing.  I could hardly believe my ears!  Thanks, Lou!

Gayle

"The Cove" is being widely seen in Japan.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T100728004103.htm

Gayle

There will be thirteen chicks in Operation Migratiom class of 2010 this fall.

http://www.savingcranes.org/whooping-crane-update-august-9-2010.html

Gayle

Great design!  Thanks Dale!

Operation Migration's camera on the training ground for the class of 2010 has been turned on:

http://www.wildearth.tv/static/wildearth/channels/we_crane_ground.html

I shall post details as I receive them.

Gayle

Happy birthday Nora.  I hope it and the entire year are wonderful for you!!

We miss your salient observations here!

Gayle

What a spectacular butterfly, Aafke!  You have an amazing garden!  Thank you for the photograph and description.

Gayle

Touche!!

Bad news and good news.  There are only two wild hatched chicks remaining:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7901247/Forty-ton-whale-lands-on-yacht-during-Cape-Town-sailing-trip.html

The DAR chicks (Direct Autumn Release) have arrived at Necedah from ICF in Baraboo to learn how to be wild whooping cranes:

http://www.savingcranes.org/dar-cranes-arrive-at-necedah-nwr-july-21-2010.html

Gayle

Thanks Aafke.  I have always been fascinated by the balletic movements of huge flocks of birds.  How the birds can act in concert is a mystery.  I have read some studies on the subject and have found no answers other than it is an effective way to avoid predation.  Perhaps they are just having fun!  And yes, the music is lame!

Gayle

Three of the wild-hatched chicks survive.    Couple of great photos.

http://www.savingcranes.org/wild-whooping-crane-chicks-update-july-12-2010.html

Gayle

Thank you so much for posting this, Lou.  I am sorry that I have not have the privilege of visiting the Eastman House.  As I am a photographer, and so was my husband, we hung out with many West Coast photographers.  It was considered a badge of honor to have a print in the Eastman Collection.  (I do not!)

I have done much work with a panoramic camera the uses 35 mm film so I respond well to this format.  And in the course of 40 years in photography, I have exposed miles of Kodak film!

Thanks again.

Gayle