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Radisson - 2011 / Ivy & Princess
Jo:
The boys are in the top corner and our girl is by herself in the corner closest to the bottom of the screen.
You can sure see the difference in feathers with this view.
It's raining lightly in Osborne Village (a couple of km from the Radisson) so I wouldn't be surprised to see rain drops falling shortly downtown.
The Peregrine Chick:
This year its famous folks who in one way or another lead us to this point - key people in the environmental movement, folks who were key in the banning of DDT, folks who were instrumental in initiating recovery programs. One built on the next on the next all of which have led us to this point where we have webcams on urban nesting wild peregrine falcons and we are about to vote on names for them. Forty years ago, there weren't enough birds to name - one nest south of the Arctic Circle in all of North America.
Last year we had more fanciful names, the year before unusual names, the year before we wish we had been able to name chicks, the year before that "wind" names and so on and so on and so on. If we mix them up, we can hopefully have names that aren't being used in lots of other locations ... and we should be so lucky that our birds live long enough to have folks watch them on a webcam. Hard to be serious about "Spot" or "Fluffy", cute those the names are at the time of banding!!
des:
--- Quote from: Leana on June 21, 2011, 15:48 ---
--- Quote from: des on June 21, 2011, 15:11 ---And the theme for this year's rulers of the sky is ???????
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It says what it is right above the list of names Des. "This year's choices are based on the names of important people in the environmental movement and in the recovery of the peregrine falcon" and there's even a link with info on each person.
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I apologize for my hasty note to you. I should have scrolled on up further instead of closing the site and just sending a message off quickly!
And now I look forward to having much more to consider and learn when voting. Thanks TPC. We actually have many great choices!
Saoirse:
Esmeralda is a cute name, but I really like the fact that the rest of this year's choices are honouring people who've been important to the environmental movement and peregrine falcon recovery. What a great idea for a theme!
susha:
Wow - what an untidy mess! Doesn't seem to be bothering the kids though :P
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