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Offline Pam

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McKenzie Seeds - 2009 / June
« Reply #233 on: June 28, 2009, 22:06 »
Wish I had known before the weekend, would have brought my walkie-talkies in for y'all to use!  I'm afraid I will have to be at work on Thursday.....~

If the range is within 3km, you don't need a very fancy pair of w-t at all, very basic will do it.  we use them at the lake, in the bush, and they carry very well for about 2-3km.

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McKenzie Seeds - 2009 / June
« Reply #232 on: June 28, 2009, 21:57 »
Tks, will check out a couple of places.

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« Reply #231 on: June 28, 2009, 21:54 »
Problem is I have no idea how much they cost... google Toys "r" us, I would be surprised if they didn't have any.

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« Reply #230 on: June 28, 2009, 21:52 »
So if you want to do this what is the price approx?

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« Reply #229 on: June 28, 2009, 21:44 »


Don't know if anyone who is coming has kids (or grandkids) with walkie talkies, but if you do, snag them and I can give y'all a blow by blow description of what we are up to ...
So I could pick up a set of walkie talkies, but don't know too much about them. Will a half decent price work or do you have to go high tech?
The great thing about walkie-talkies is that all you have to do is press a button to talk into and release it to listen.

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« Reply #228 on: June 28, 2009, 21:21 »


Don't know if anyone who is coming has kids (or grandkids) with walkie talkies, but if you do, snag them and I can give y'all a blow by blow description of what we are up to ...
So I could pick up a set of walkie talkies, but don't know too much about them. Will a half decent price work or do you have to go high tech?
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McKenzie Seeds - 2009 / June
« Reply #227 on: June 28, 2009, 19:34 »
Of course you will!  That's why you are the unofficial official photographer isn't it?

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McKenzie Seeds - 2009 / June
« Reply #226 on: June 28, 2009, 19:20 »
Will have photos of the banding.

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« Reply #225 on: June 28, 2009, 19:04 »
OK, so all we are gonna see is Dan up and down the ladder?  :o
Or is there a way to see what you are doing inside?

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McKenzie Seeds - 2009 / June
« Reply #224 on: June 28, 2009, 19:01 »
OK, so that makes sense.  I have the vision of the Radisson banding but know that the nest here is up out of the way of anything else so is not so readily accessible.  He would need to concentrate on getting up and down safely with chicks.  So, does he have a bucket that hangs from a belt to transport them down or does he do all the work up there by himself? 

Chicks get lowered from the nestbox to the roof via a bucket (like the ones I used on the nestledge) and we take them inside to band.  Then we bring them back out and up they go and so does Dan and he puts them back in the box ...

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McKenzie Seeds - 2009 / June
« Reply #223 on: June 28, 2009, 18:33 »
And just how many Folks are heading to Brandon for the banding ?

An' I'm already here so just gonna hop on the bus to downtown!  ;D

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« Reply #222 on: June 28, 2009, 18:31 »
And just how many Folks are heading to Brandon for the banding ?
Hey Dennis, got a car of 3 or 4. Need a ride???

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McKenzie Seeds - 2009 / June
« Reply #221 on: June 28, 2009, 18:20 »
Working on a "New" game plan for this year ! Just need the Sun.

Supposed to be variable cloud for Thursday, but that's from the Weathernetwork, so it's prolly wrong LOL.

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McKenzie Seeds - 2009 / June
« Reply #220 on: June 28, 2009, 18:16 »
And just how many Folks are heading to Brandon for the banding ?

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McKenzie Seeds - 2009 / June
« Reply #219 on: June 28, 2009, 18:15 »
Working on a "New" game plan for this year ! Just need the Sun.