Hi all: Here's to a problem-free week on the site. Check out the last week's final page or so for updates from everyone, including one from Maureen (HillaryH) who's back with us after a hospital stay due to a chest infection and wants directions to Google Earth. Maureen - assume you downloaded GE before? If not, just go to http://earth.google.com/ and click on the Download Google Earth 5 button at right. I can't remember right now how to load Rothes and Mallachie's route; perhaps someone else will let you know if you need additional info. Glad you're back!
Alan posted a hummingbird link (http://vimeo.com/hummingbirds#8409299) for those who missed it and the week's chat ended with a long post from OG, who'd been composing it for days but was unable to get it on the site due to the techy problems! And no OG, haven't attempted the printer-wireless problem yet; can only handle one techy problem at week it seems!!
Have a nice Sunday all. Let's see if this posts
aquilareen said: Diane - Wow! Those Hummingbird videos are fantastic. Thank you.
Diane - Wow! Those Hummingbird videos are fantastic. Thank you.
The photography in those videos really is stunning. They are such incredible creatures. I didn't like the short segment with the hummingbirds in the lab, though. I don't like it when scientists treat birds like lab rats. I don't even like seeing lab rats treated like lab rats. :-(
Morning Diane thanks so much for the link. What magical little birds.
Thought we had escaped the snow here in Dorset where I live but has just started now. There is absolute chaos all around us with people stuck in cars overnight and roads closed. I am hoping we are not going to get a really heavy fall but it does not look promising at the moment. Take care when you are out.
Margobird
Hello Annette glad to hear your daughter is doing fine. Take care.
Morning Caerann thanks for the pics will look forward to seeing another cam up and running.
Diane Thank you for that. I feel genuinely educated. Up to now I have thought of GHOs as those monsters that prey on osprey. Now they are big cuddly things.
Here is a link to Hancock. See http://discuss.hancockwildlifechannel.org/
and GHOs in particular. See http://discuss.hancockwildlifechannel.org/viewtopic.php?f=154&t=1400&start=200
Thanks once again for that.
The snow here is quite bad but then any snow is bad here since we are not used to it.
Tiger Signature
TerryM. That you for the link. I was confused there were two different URls. Not sure that has ever happened before. Mind you it would often be handy if there were two cameras on the same nest.
Morning all from TI,
We have had some snow this morning but only a few centimeters and all the schools are open. The sky is dark however so I expect there is more to come.
Caerann Your pictures of GHOs on osprey nests are really lovely. Not sure the ospreys would approve. Sort of like they are waiting on dinner.
Last night I saw not one but two foxes. I do not think I have ever seen two in the city before. They seem to find life in the city to their liking.
If you have never seen this then sit back and enjoy. It is great to watch but to see it in real time as it unfolded was beyond compare. This was the story of three peregrines Ma, Pa and S2 where three is a crowd. There were also three chicks. It happened in April, May 2007 at De Mortel near Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
Watch at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x1Ak-SnLew
I tried to interested both the National Press and the BBC but neither could see the story value.
Morning Alan see you have had snow and are expecting more. Thought we had got away with it here in Poole but it has been snowing heavily for the past hour so now the battle is to keep the food for the birds clear of snow. I am going to have to so careful when I go out in the garden though.
Like you I love the humming birds and have learnt from the forum. They are just so beautful. Watched Pheobe last night and she was so busy turning her eggs an flitting back and forth. Such a clear picture as well.
Take care if you have to go out and most importantly keep warm.