Re: birds
Posted: 2017/08/03 13:52:52 UTC
Thanks much but there definitely won't be better news. The other two times I was seriously worried it didn't make any sense that anything really bad had happened because of what WASN'T going on with other birds. This time everything makes absolute total sense.
It's a fairly easy answer for me now. NOTHING makes up for something like this. I did love watching her flying through the woods, learning, having a blast but let her do it in the house where she's protected by walls and windows and soak up rays on the deck where she's protected by bars.
I thought THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQa-wiW5Lms
was indescribably cool.
http://www.kitestrings.org/post951.html#p951
http://www.kitestrings.org/post952.html#p952
http://www.kitestrings.org/post955.html#p955
http://www.kitestrings.org/post2619.html#p2619
But...
http://www.kitestrings.org/post2674.html#p2674
I couldn't follow your Sea Eagles.
http://www.kitestrings.org/post10090.html#p10090
Some years back I jumped on the wagon and got hooked on these guys:
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles
Decorah Eagles, Ustream.TV
Watched them hatch - three kids. And in the early stages there was a runt who wasn't getting fed and I was sure he'd starve / get killed by his siblings - which is pretty SOP for lotsa eagles. It was tough to watch but that's how these birds work.
But to my astonishment he survived and the kids got their plumage and it was wonderful watching their gentleness and affection.
They started branching and finally dispersed to the point that they cut the camera for the season. Then almost immediately one of the kids got fried on some nearby powerlines and I was furious and totally devastated. And that, I found sometime thereafter, was a pretty routine occurrence.
And I felt I couldn't afford to let an emotional attachment like that form again. So right after you put up the link I took this live screenshot:
2017/04/22 19:02:50 UTC
http://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2811/34073538491_8e49dd10a8_o.png
checked out the parents a couple times, wished them the very best, and split while I could.
I see the empty nest now blowing around in the wind. Hope things turned out well for everybody. (But, of course, they're eagles. And whenever things turn out well for eagles it's a dead certainty that they turned out really badly for somebody else.)
It's a fairly easy answer for me now. NOTHING makes up for something like this. I did love watching her flying through the woods, learning, having a blast but let her do it in the house where she's protected by walls and windows and soak up rays on the deck where she's protected by bars.
I thought THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQa-wiW5Lms
was indescribably cool.
http://www.kitestrings.org/post951.html#p951
http://www.kitestrings.org/post952.html#p952
http://www.kitestrings.org/post955.html#p955
http://www.kitestrings.org/post2619.html#p2619
But...
http://www.kitestrings.org/post2674.html#p2674
Did somebody get grabbed by a Golden Eagle? The bird's history and the person's damaged for life.Steve Davy - 2012/08/11 00:03:53 UTC
I've not seen the Macaws in a long time. I always hope to see them when I'm there. They are spectacular and the only ones that will get on a tip and turn with a glider.
I couldn't follow your Sea Eagles.
http://www.kitestrings.org/post10090.html#p10090
Some years back I jumped on the wagon and got hooked on these guys:
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles
Decorah Eagles, Ustream.TV
Watched them hatch - three kids. And in the early stages there was a runt who wasn't getting fed and I was sure he'd starve / get killed by his siblings - which is pretty SOP for lotsa eagles. It was tough to watch but that's how these birds work.
But to my astonishment he survived and the kids got their plumage and it was wonderful watching their gentleness and affection.
They started branching and finally dispersed to the point that they cut the camera for the season. Then almost immediately one of the kids got fried on some nearby powerlines and I was furious and totally devastated. And that, I found sometime thereafter, was a pretty routine occurrence.
And I felt I couldn't afford to let an emotional attachment like that form again. So right after you put up the link I took this live screenshot:
2017/04/22 19:02:50 UTC
http://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2811/34073538491_8e49dd10a8_o.png
checked out the parents a couple times, wished them the very best, and split while I could.
I see the empty nest now blowing around in the wind. Hope things turned out well for everybody. (But, of course, they're eagles. And whenever things turn out well for eagles it's a dead certainty that they turned out really badly for somebody else.)