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NOVEMBER – Winter is setting in. With return to Standard Time the dark evenings are even longer. It will soon be dark by 6:00 p.m. here in southern Ohio. Many of our November days are just all-over grey, from grey skies to gray hills with leafless grey trees and grey atmosphere – just cold, damp and gloomy. Still too early to expect much, if any, snow. But on an occasional sunny day we might enjoy a heavy frost on lingering green leaves. And inside all is warm, colorful and cheery. All month (in my family, anyway) we are planning the Thanksgiving feast. Thanksgiving Day, a day set aside for giving thanks to God for all the blessings in our lives, is a national holiday and a major one for most of us.
Here at the Gabfest, we have the gloom of empty nests. But we also have the cheer of knowing that Millicent is settled in her warm winter home, while Breagha is enjoying his second winter not too far away. Our chat-room fires are kept burning brightly and our new TV/telly screen is always at the ready., so hopefully we can all keep our computers in working order and enjoy a little chit-chat, some music and maybe a bit of streetwalking. Special Events include the possibility of another Music Night with suggested Movie theme and a group streetwalk to some as yet mystery location.
So where is our Gabfest chat-room.? Have you ever wondered? Well of course, it is at some undisclosed cyberspace location in the beautiful Scottish Highlands, not too far from the Loch Garten nest, home of EJ and Odin.
Dartmoor looks "ghostly" on foggy days.
Still nothing new there, although last report was 7 days ago. That report was so loaded maybe she feels justified in being away for a while. But we do need updates on Breagha & Millicent no matter how brief. Else we worry and we can't have that, now can we? (Joke!, kind of anyway) We do worry when we don't hear, but I know the staff does their best to keep us informed.
Willow, glad I went back a page. I was about to miss your cosmos. It is lovely. Hope it remains nice for you for a long time yet.
Yes the 8 foot one I have is unusually tall and to tell the truth it is not very pretty. Just stretched up tall with only scattered blossoms of an ordinary pink late in summer.. The more common height is 4 to 6 feet.
I think from November updates on the tagged Ospreys go onto a different sequence so may not be as regular.
JUNE The last update concluded with telling us that data changed to weekly, so should hear today or tomorrow
YES, kEITH & pATILY, I had suspected as much. We'll just wait & see. Sooner or later we'll get a report.
It is raining at Ithaca bird feeders this a.m., rather heavily from the sounds of it. Lots of bird action with various species coming and going. Woodpeckers like the overhead feeder, which apparently contains some kind of suet rather than seeds. A flock of ducks is visible on the lake just below the feeder to the right.
Looks like it snowed a wee bit overnight at Ontario. A grosbeak has been eating too. They won't share. Even the bluejay comes in quite aggressively so as to chase away the bluejay already there.
What with all my computer problems over many months and consequential loss of links, I had almost forgotten about PALEMALE. He is a red tailed hawk who has lived for many years on an ornate apartment building on Fifth Avenue in New York, New York, USA.
I have just reconnected. www.palemale.com/archives.html
This is the site of Lincoln Karim. photographer and faithful follower of Palemale and his family. His love for these birds is evident as we see his photographs and read his comments.
Lincoln's photography is top-notch excellent and a joy to behold.
Photograph by Lincoln Karim. All photographs on his site are by him and are of course copyrighted, although I have not yet found a statement of copyright.
This I assume is Palemale, although Lincoln frequently does not ID his subject.
Palemale's story is here in Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Male