hehehe..

Oh, no.. I may need a new camera... how horrible...

I wanna know how a goose got in your tub. Please.

Basically it's all Eshe's fault. We (Ashton, Eshe, Kimbelle and I) were at Joe's Crab Shack. After dinner we were sitting around teasing, I mean talking. Eshe went out for a cigarette.

When we all left, there were a bunch of people crowded around the front of the building. I get out there and there is this goose. It is literally up against Eshe and folks are petting it and taking pictures.

I see that it has a broken wing. I go into Bird Commando mode and herd it into Eshe even more. Then I loosely grasp the neck and hoist the bird up under my arm.

You'd think I'd done this before. I've never picked up a water fowl in my life. So the kids all have to pet and we discuss how to pet and why it has "teeth things". Yes, Arwen the intrepid wildlife educator.

I proudly announce to one and all that it is a NeNe goose. Then I ask Eshe to grab my keys and purse and food. Eshe, being one smart butch, realizes that he is going to have to help me so he gallantly escorts me and goose to my Blazer. Goose is not happy about sitting in my lap. So goose struggles until goose is on the floor. This is after goose has christened my cute dress. :|

So we take off and goose sticks its head UNDER my dress. Eshe pretends to be looking out the window while choking. I am sure that he was not howling with laughter at the fact I now have a goose under my skirt. The goose is tasting my inner thigh. I let out a somewhat demure yelp (Okay, I may have screamed out the open window that there was a goose under my skirt) and we drove on. Goose and I and Eshe arrived at my apartment where I put goose in the tub and ran water.

Goose is very very very very tame. As in likes to be petting and doesn't even begin to try to flee.

So I look up all sorts of information. The first thing I discover is that it is not a NeNe but a Chinese Swan Goose (brown variety). She is female. I determined this from reading two web pages. I are so smart.

I'm calling her Josephine and wishing I could keep her.

So, you can see how this is all Eshe's fault.

Smoking is bad. /lights up

dear ann-
 

"She wouldn’t even say hello to you," said Lynda White, Eagle Watch coordinator for the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey in Maitland. "She’d take the bird and kiss it on top of the head."

i respected & loved her; she taught me a lot of lessons years ago. :candle:

http://www.community-paper.com/Archives/AnnYoung.html

http://theannyoungwildbirdrefuge.com/

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/fea...-this-n-2.html

may she fly free as a bird, and with the birds, gather to communicate, perch on sound-filled limbs, and soar effortlessly over lush fields..

remains of a crow, muskrat, and rabbit-
 

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...er=rss&emc=rss


http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/muskrat.htm

[QUOTE=Miss Scarlett;314512]:awww:...they're feeding the babies!!!!

i keep checking on them ;) she's a good mama bird. was asleep, now cleaning her feathers. love the infared light.

addictive!

good news first-
 

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...spill_res.html



the following links involve some lives of workers involved in the oil spill cleanup. i passed all of the examinations required to go there- and checked in frequently with NWRA/Audubon, elsewhere, because of a desire [calling] to help these birds. though it was not until close to the time for me to start packing things up in indiana to move back home, did i receive a call from the audubon society about going down to help. i knew that by my being on the autism spectrum with metabolic issues/chemical sensitivities, and so on, my plan to help, perhaps, not the most well-made/wisest choice; and now, one year later, i see how so many individuals are, not surprisingly, very ill from the chemicals involved in this cleanup effort.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_850486.html

http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/46...n-35-headaches

http://savethegulfnow.net/bp-oil-spi...democracy-now/

After being involved in some of the clean-up efforts around the SF Bay after the tanker spill a few years ago, I have been keeping track of shore birds at the dog park I walk my pooch at daily. The park is right on the Bay and you can go off on other trails in protected areas (but not with dogs off leash).

For a long time, the birds left because the oil obviously ruined their food supply. Now, they are returning- it has taken nearly a decade!

Sometimes, I bring a snack and after my dog has had some good exercise, I sit with my "nocks" and just watch them feeding at low tide. The numbers have increased from last year to this! Frog Dog just sits next to me and looks out at them.

I talk to people that allow their dogs out in that area- tell them it ain't cool! Although, very few people do this. This park has co-existed with the bird sanctuaries established for over 20 years and now there is a fight going on to take away portions of the dog park.

The birds are returning and they don't seem to have any problems with the dog park being nearby as long as humans read and observe the rules! Also, all of the rest of the shoreline is totally restricted- no dogs at all for many miles. they need these areas to produce little baby birds and dogs would disturb this process.

I wish people would just stop screwing up things! Observe the rules and everyone, including our pooches can enjoy this wonderful park.

http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles#...medium=3064708

look how far below the traffic!

following the equator a journey around the world- mark twain
 

http://www.messybeast.com/extinct/moa.htm



The Moa stood thirteen feet high, and could step over an ordinary man's head or kick his hat off; and his head, too, for that matter. He said it was wingless, but a swift runner. The natives used to ride it. It could make forty miles an hour, and keep it up for four hundred miles and come out reasonably fresh. It was still in existence when the railway was introduced into New Zealand; still in existence, and carrying the mails. The railroad began with the same schedule it has now: two expresses a week-time, twenty miles an hour. The company exterminated the moa to get the mails.

Oh, this is such a beautiful bird!...We love birdwatching!.....I was told about this thread the other day, but I never saw it....I couldn't find it.....So, thank you for whomever added to the thread.....Now, my honey and I can enjoy the birds too!

Ditto....I love birdwatching too......When we lived in Seattle, I use to have several feeders and the different kinds of birds native to the area would just come from everywhere......It was funny watching the birds and the squirrels in the feeders too.....

The Journeys of Snowy Owls
 

This arrived in an email I received from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, my favorite bird resource on the web, and I thought I would share. I never knew that snowy owls were nomads.

aviary...not that it matters. The photos are beautiful.

COLLETTE is one of my favorite readers to follow, so I never even knew about your post on owls, Liam!

Liam? I don't know much about owls, but I do know that owls in Oregon are the types of owls that don't wander. They set up permanent homes in established territories.

In case you might be interested, I will leave a link about owls from the Oregon Dept of Fish & Wildlife. Barn owls and Snowy Owls are very beautiful. And formidable birds of prey, I think. I also think of them as being terribly shy, when they aren't shy at all. Plus (bonus), they're cuter than eagles. :blush:


http://www.dfw.state.or.us/species/birds/owls.asp

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/de/68/c8/d...white-owls.jpg

Here's my favorite owl, late at night. :stillheart:

Very darling, I'd say. :balloon:

It's too bad humans aren't more like owls, a lot of owls do a much better job of parenting, pair bonding and looking after one another than many humans ever will.

http://www.wildaboutpets.net/info/vs...9452XSmall.jpg

Hello Bird Lovers :)

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...T1JNUgTK56O_7i

Another favorite raptor (Peregrine Falcon)
 

https://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/...9_n_fgujae.jpg

Here's an press release about peregrine falcons living in my hometown metro area. At one time, there was an peregrine falcon couple nesting in an huge tree on my work campus. Often times on my lunch hour, one could see them soaring above the towers on my work campus. I even saw them teaching their baby how to fly.

http://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/2...joy-and-terror

.....AMEN!

[https://www.hbw.com/sites/default/fi...?itok=SxFFne6y

Andean flamingos on the Salar de Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia
 

https://www.worldatlas.com/r/w728-h4...roptilus-1.jpg

The kakapo (Strigops habroptila) is one of the most distinct parrots in the world, as it is flightless and nocturnal. The bird is gigantic and heavy, weighing about 8 pounds. The bird resides in New Zealand and it listed as critically endangered. A long period of isolation in the islands of New Zealand caused the bird to develop a high level of adaptation, and it is especially vulnerable to extinction. Deforestation and introduction of predators have caused the numbers of the species to decrease rapidly. The bird is on IUCN red list as threatened species and the status as critically endangered.

https://www.worldatlas.com/r/w728-h4...-sirocco-1.jpg

Birding enthusiast
 

Wow didn't know there was a bird thread here , loving it!
Just went on my first guided birding excursion 2 weeks go .It was awesome !
I can see this can be addicting.
Some reason i cannot post pictures on here , or else I would share the beautiful local birds we have here along the Texas gulf coast.

https://www.gotscience.org/wp-conten...1234026477.jpg


Great spotted woodpecker..

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2e/27...1a47616f7f.jpg



I believe this one is called Gouldian Finch