Appears unstuck now.

I follow Pale Male in NYC occasionally:

http://www.palemale.com/

He's an old bird at this point.   Remember the PBS Nature documentary?

Here are some shots that I saved from years past.

The second one is the one I built my icon from.   Not only does Mariah look angry in this shot, but she has a little bit of left over food on her nick.

Egg 1 has a definite bump on the top of it.  There are also two specks two the wide end of it that should let us identify this egg later.  Here are some reference images

I really love these post Donna, but I find some of the articles almost impossible to read.

Try this link:
http://readable.tastefulwords.com/

Clock on "show setup" then drag and drop "Readable" into your bookmarks area.
You will find it much easier to read....

Beauty has been in the nest box for some time.
Egg time?

http://rfalconcam.com/gallery/processed/MainCamera/20110330/MainCamera_20110330-145100.jpg

She looks miserable...

Wish I knew what she is watching so intently

Hogan's Heroes?

She shore appears to have the head shape down.
On this pose she looks very different from Mariah.

On the island of Guam, the forest are silent because of the brown tree snake.

http://www.fort.usgs.gov/resources/education/bts/invasion/history.asp

The native birds are almost extinct there because of this invasive species.   The link also details other snakes on islands in the Pacific.

Snakes are not allowed on Hawaii.  Every aircraft from Guam is checked.  The closest they have every come is a dead green tree snake on a runway at Perl Harbor.  It hitched a ride and didn't count on the altitude...

If you like these, try this site (Astronomy Picture of the day):

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

In particular the one from yesterday:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110315.html

Another take on this story from the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9419000/9419812.stm

She was apparently first ringed in 1956.   At the time she had reached breeding age, so she would have been at least 6.

Spotted this one on BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12283837

Was a really big surprise because all of their Giraffes at that zoo are female....

After I posted it, I noticed that it had been posted earlier.   Sorry, should have added this to that thread.

From the BBC news desk.  Go to:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12120259
for the original article.

Saudi Arabian officials have "detained" a vulture on accusations of being a spy for Israel, media reports say.

The griffon vulture was carrying a GPS transmitter bearing the name of Tel Aviv University, prompting rumours it was part of a Zionist plot.

Israeli wildlife officials dismissed the claims as ludicrous and expressed concern about the bird's fate.

Last month, Egyptian officials implied the Israeli spy agency Mossad was to blame for shark attacks off its coast.

The vulture, which can have a wing span of up to 265cm (8ft 8in), was caught after it landed in the desert city of Hyaal a few days ago.

When locals discovered the GPS transmitter, they suspected the worst and handed it over to the security forces, said Israel's Ma'ariv newspaper.

Conspiracy theories quickly began circulating in Saudi newspapers and on websites that the bird was involved in espionage.
'Terrible price'

Israeli officials told Ma'ariv they were "stunned" by the allegations and concerned that the bird could meet a horrible punishment in the notoriously severe Saudi justice system.
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"The device does nothing more than receive and store basic data about the bird's whereabouts, and about his altitude and speed," a bird specialist at Israel's Park and Nature Authority told the newspaper.

The data would be used to improve understanding of the endangered species' behaviour.

"Now, this poor bird is paying a terrible price. That's very sad," said the unnamed expert.

"I hope they release the poor thing."

The vulture is the latest animal to be accused of being an unwitting Mossad operative.

In December, the governor of Egypt's South Sinai province, Mohamed Abdul Fadil Shousha, suggested the spy agency may have had a hand in a string of deadly shark attacks off the coast of the Sharm el-Sheikh resort.

He said it was "not out of the question" that Mossad had put the killer shark in the area.

The Israeli foreign ministry dismissed that allegation, saying the governor "must have seen Jaws one time too many, and confuses fact and fiction".

It is sometimes hard to remember that cats are tropical creatures, and not adapted to these temperatures.

Come to think of it, aren't we tropical savanna apes?   What are we doing up here!

I've been following this RT for years.

http://www.palemale.com/

The woman who runs this site post new pictures almost every day.

I remember the old PBS special was one of my introductions to the birding world.