A Place for Empty Nesters.

[IKat]

Bless this man's kindness......


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[Celeste]

everything is FINE! ☺ *Lots of greetings* go to SWEDEN ..... And some *nicest WAVES* also to Eden and Celeste :-) and another "nice wave* to Chimega ..... Thank you for "being a part" of the "discussion" by sharing points of views!

Hi Cara
I will also stop this discussion at this point ..... because ..... we just use different words, different ways and different lengh of text to express EXACTLY the same thing

[Cara]

Hi Cara the reason for misunderstanding may be that I have sometimes difficulties to understand such explanations in English. But I think I got it now. ..... BUMBLEBEE…. this sounds phonetic really cute and fits to this lovely little animal. Our German word HUMMEL is very meaningless against this.

Hi Eden :-) ..... thank you for your re-comment..... a misunderstanding never is a problem if RESOLUTION is the last word of this misunderstanding, right? ..... And I know exactly what you mean with the words "bumblebee" and "Hummel" ..... "Humla" in Sweden - "Hummel" in Germany ..... and in comparison BUMBLEBEE is really the BEST .... in italian: "Bombo" - "Hommel" in dutch language ..... in gaelic ..... ok, I stop it .....

[Cara]

Hi Cara
I will also stop this discussion at this point ..... because ..... we just use different words, different ways and different lengh of text to express EXACTLY the same thing

Hi Celeste :-) ..... Yes! ;-D ..... and Toronto is indeed to much in distance for a short visit to continue this conversation "mouth to mouth" - so that we would be able (better than HERE on keyboard) to bring our differences in words, ways ..... and so on ..... to a COMMON understanding .......

[Cara]

Celeste ..... *PHONE*??????? ..... ..... but YOU pay the bill, okay?

[Celeste]

Bless this man's kindness......
http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/19169625/ch ... m-drowning

Incredible story. I hope this osprey will be fine.

[Celeste]

Celeste ..... *PHONE*??????? ..... ..... but YOU pay the bill, okay?

SKYPE is free :peek:

[Cara]

SKYPE is free :peek:

*LAUGH* .....well, you're right .....

[Cydrome]

Nori reminds me of Chibi, the most famous duckling in Japan.

In 1996, a duck nested beside the reflecting pool of a downtown Tokyo office building across a 6-lane road from the moat that surrounds the Emperor's Imperial Palace. When 8 ducklings appeared, nightly tv news coverage made the little family instant celebrities. The runt of the litter, Chibi, was everyone's favorite.

One afternoon, the duck mom marched her brood onto the sidewalk intending to cross the road to the lush moat. (Chibi could not be persuaded to leave the reflecting pool.)

The Tokyo police immediately closed the busy road while mama walked the ducklings across and down a bank into the moat, and then flew back for Chibi. Eventually, she nudged him across to the moat and they reopened the road after a 3 hours traffic jam on a busy Tokyo weekday.

The tiny ducklings grew and learned to forage. Coverage of the little family was popular on the nightly news for a few days until a powerful summer storm hit central Tokyo. When when the cameras returned to the moat surrounding the Imperial Palace, Chibi had disappeared.

Hundreds of bird-lovers scoured the moat (which is several kilometers long) without any luck. Mournful poems to brave little Chibi were written.

A few days later, Chibi was spotted floating happily along the moat on a chunk of styrofoam.

Many animals live in the biota of the moat, including the famous Imperial swans, tankuki (a clever raccoon-like creature), and goshawks. To protect the family, the Emperor's gardeners built a strong duck house that still floats in the moat of the Imperial Gardens. The ducklings (including Chibi) prospered, fledged, and eventually flew off on their life's adventures. There was a debate about banding them, but the Japanese have an aversion to tampering with nature.

When we watched her lose out to bigger siblings for scraps of food, Linda and I identified Nori with Chibi. We hope that a tough childhood will help them both prosper in a tough world.

[Cara]

Nori reminds me of Chibi, the most famous duckling in Japan.
In 1996, a duck nested beside the reflecting pool .......................

Awesome story! :-))) ..... just great.....!

[Cara]

*Good night* and *good day* to everybody ....... I'll do THIS for now .....;-)

[alice44]

Bless this man's kindness......


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There was a post somewhere about an osprey that got on a boat -- I think off the shore of Britain and was saved in a similar sort of fashion.

[Wisteria]

Bless this man's kindness......


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Thanks for posting this IKat. I always tear up when I see or hear stories like this.

[Chimega]

Piret is now flying out over the desert, isn't she? It seems that the map has been updated again. I see no water anywhere near where I see her. What's going on with this?

[lispet]

We will have to sit in this empty nest until next spring ... we have enough time to think about some fundraising or any other way to

I strongly support this.

[Wisteria]

Piret is now flying out over the desert, isn't she? It seems that the map has been updated again. I see no water anywhere near where I see her. What's going on with this?

Chimega, when I check the map it appears she's about 20 km from the Nile right now, heading back north after having been about 400km south of where she is now, roughly following the Nile both ways. She's been further out from the water before, but I don't know if that's normal or not.

[Chimega]

Chimega, when I check the map it appears she's about 20 km from the Nile right now, heading back north after having been about 400km south of where she is now, roughly following the Nile both ways. She's been further out from the water before, but I don't know if that's normal or not.

I know and if you zoom in as close as the map will allow, it just looks like sand and mountains and she appears to be moving further into that area. I don't see any of the others on the tracking map, moving in that direction and it worries me.

[Wisteria]

I know and if you zoom in as close as the map will allow, it just looks like sand and mountains and she appears to be moving further into that area. I don't see any of the others on the tracking map, moving in that direction and it worries me.

I see what you mean. I clicked on "route" and saw that she flew a lot farther south than the others at first, and I don't know why, but now I don't think she's going farther into the desert, she seems to be traveling mostly northwards back towards where Erika is now, and criss-crossing the river as she goes. There's a fairly densely populated area near the river at that point, so she may be just flying farther out to avoid it as she heads north. I guess we'll have to wait and see and keep our fingers crossed that she stays close enough to the water.

It's raining here, or I'd wish upon a star for her.

edit: I looked again just now, and it seems like she got almost to the border of Sudan, then realized Erika was still in northern Egypt, so she's heading back to let Erika catch up to her. That's the story I will tell myself so I can sleep tonight, anyway. The rest of them are still even farther north.

[alice44]

I think it is best to assume she knows what she is doing and why.

[gjuselover]

Hej everybody..I wonder if there are some data , facts about where Piret has had her winterground before this year. If so I would like to see where..

In my romantic way I think she is recognising before Madis comes..and now she flies to meet him