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Re: General Interest

Posted: October 31st, 2009, 2:49 pm
by Mutikluti
Kenny, so cute eagle chick!!! :chick:

Re: General Interest

Posted: October 31st, 2009, 3:45 pm
by Jo UK
Great picture of a Harpie! thanks Kenny.

Re: General Interest

Posted: October 31st, 2009, 7:31 pm
by juta
Interesting to know how they keep that eagle in the Zoo.
I went to the Miami Metrozoo site hoping there is eaglecam, but found this - meerkat cam:

http://www.nbcmiami.com/station/communi ... t-Cam.html

Re: General Interest

Posted: October 31st, 2009, 7:39 pm
by Kuremari
Mutikluti wrote:Kenny, so cute eagle chick!!! :chick:
...yes....and look at Mama`s legs :rolleyes: for sure the zoo workers keep a nice distance :D

thanks for pictures Kenny!

Re: General Interest

Posted: November 15th, 2009, 1:57 am
by macdoum
macdoum wrote:The puppies must be fast asleep by now.....somewhere.. must look tomorrow. :nod:
Just had a look at the Puppies and saw this video ;
http://www.northumbria.police.uk/about_ ... /index.asp
Look and see 'A PILE OF PUPPIES '!! cute little guys and girls. :nod: All,mostly, :sleeping: :D ..

Re: General Interest

Posted: November 15th, 2009, 2:02 am
by alice44
macdoum wrote: Just had a look at the Puppies and saw this video ;
http://www.northumbria.police.uk/about_ ... /index.asp
Look and see 'A PILE OF PUPPIES '!! cute little guys and girls. :nod: All,mostly, :sleeping: :D ..
Those puppies are very cute

as is the eagle chick, although in a very different way :rolleyes:

Re: General Interest

Posted: November 29th, 2009, 3:07 pm
by Leica Eagles
I went on an eggscursion yesterday to an area nearby and thought i would share some Eagle shots with you

BAEA adult
Image

Juvie soaring
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Another group soaring south of the Conowingo Dam, along the Susquehanna river on the Maryland-Pennsylvania border
Image

There were alot of blue herons too waiting for the fish
Image

Re: General Interest

Posted: November 29th, 2009, 3:14 pm
by juta
What a good pictures, leca Eagles.

Eggscursion? Do you have opportunity to see into the nests? And diid you find something?

Re: General Interest

Posted: December 6th, 2009, 11:56 am
by alice44
Here is a link to 100 days in Glacier National Park -- every day is a photo and almost all of them are lovely.
http://www.glacierparkmagazine.com/100_ ... lPark.html

Re: General Interest

Posted: January 1st, 2010, 3:40 pm
by Leica Eagles
juta wrote:What a good pictures, leca Eagles.

Eggscursion? Do you have opportunity to see into the nests? And diid you find something?

No nothing in the nests that we were able to locate...yet that is. This is the season that BAEAs tend to group together and are not territorial like they are during the nesting season.

Apparently, the water discharged from the hydroelectric plants turbines stir up the fish which makes it a prime location for eagles to dine on easy prey. The dam is located on an estuary of the Chesapeake bay on the Susquehanna River. Traveling Eagles do group up to feed during the winter

Re: General Interest

Posted: January 5th, 2010, 8:41 pm
by Jo UK
Ecky sent me this link to a webcam in the New Forest, nearby!

http://www.newforestgateway.org/Wildcam ... fault.aspx

I am sure it has been posted before but a repeat is always useful.

Re: General Interest

Posted: January 24th, 2010, 11:24 am
by Jo UK

Re: General Interest

Posted: January 25th, 2010, 12:31 am
by alice44
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/ ... ious-chimp

A video of a chimp at the cam.
It made me think of our moose at the cam.

Re: General Interest

Posted: January 31st, 2010, 9:50 pm
by Liis
Moving over from Seasons ..., about those rabbits in Stockholm:
(Hello, Alice - yes, they certainly were released pets)
One morning, in the early rabbit years, my car had to go to the workshop, quite far away, so very early start. The sun was very low yet, in my back. The road - street rather, it was in the city - went uphill. At the top 20-30 small, black, green-eyed rabbits sat, stood, lay around ... on the road, pavement, grass ... just staring at me.
A ground-level version of Hitchcock's The birds :shock: .

One mystery: how did nearly the whole population stay small, black, green-eyed for 10-15 years?
My friends' children have rabbits of all colours and sizes. These rabbits started off from at least 3 or 4 areas, can't imagine that just one kind was let loose. It must be easier for a bird of prey (or a dog, or other predator) to see a black rabbit against the mostly rather pale backgrounds in the city parks. Even allowing for a black-only start, their offspring should have had some different colours (Mendel's rules and so on). But only during the last few years brownish-beige ones appeared (clearly minority)

Re: General Interest

Posted: February 1st, 2010, 7:01 am
by alice44
I found an article with a short video -- on the U Vic Bunnies. When my mom taught there in the early 70s there were no bunnies to my knowledge -- there was a flock of endangered (and now gone?) sky larks. From what I have seen their population is declining on the island and is gone from campus.


http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/ ... an-campus/

Re: General Interest

Posted: April 2nd, 2010, 1:53 am
by macdoum
alice44 wrote:I found an article with a short video -- on the U Vic Bunnies. When my mom taught there in the early 70s there were no bunnies to my knowledge -- there was a flock of endangered (and now gone?) sky larks. From what I have seen their population is declining on the island and is gone from campus.


http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/ ... an-campus/
Alice,I just came on your article above.!! BIG problem they have there. :slap:
Have they found a solution ??
BTW do you remember me posting about a man who re-introduced bear cubs into the wild in Russia ?
Do you remember his name ? I have completely forgotten but would love to find it again. :slap: so if you know where I posted that do tell me.
THX

Re: General Interest

Posted: April 4th, 2010, 3:18 am
by macdoum

Re: General Interest

Posted: April 4th, 2010, 3:36 am
by visitor
macdoum wrote:Super bird in Adelaide Zoo;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeQjkQpeJwY&feature=fvw
AMAZING!!!

Re: General Interest

Posted: April 4th, 2010, 3:46 am
by alice44
such a range of sounds!

Re: General Interest

Posted: April 13th, 2010, 12:53 am
by alice44
A sad eagle story from Alaska
Alaska eagle survives mating dance fall
(via Canada)

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010 ... -fall.html