Only relation to turning is that I was delayed in hanging laundry by a
natural-edge bowl I didn't care to leave hanging on the chuck.

While hanging the towels, I got one of those corner-of -eye motion
sensations. Nothing out on the edge of the woods, though. Continuing to
hang, I got a motion sensation and momentary darkening. Look left and up,
no clouds. Look up and right, and there's a yearling bald eagle, swinging
on motionless wings, and spiraling lower - toward my little dog!

HERE SASCHA!

Nice to know our local pair raised one last year. Year before, they didn't.
But even a yearling spans four feet.

Last seen going west toward the river, whence he came when he saw my dog, I
guess.

"George" george@least wrote in :

Only relation to turning is that I was delayed in hanging laundry by a
natural-edge bowl I didn't care to leave hanging on the chuck.

While hanging the towels, I got one of those corner-of -eye motion
sensations. Nothing out on the edge of the woods, though. Continuing
to hang, I got a motion sensation and momentary darkening. Look left
and up, no clouds. Look up and right, and there's a yearling bald
eagle, swinging on motionless wings, and spiraling lower - toward my
little dog!

HERE SASCHA!

Nice to know our local pair raised one last year. Year before, they
didn't. But even a yearling spans four feet.

Last seen going west toward the river, whence he came when he saw my
dog, I guess.


We miss the pair of owls that used to live in the palm trees the neighbor
had to remove. The squirrel population is up, and there was a 36" garden
snake sliding around the front patio this afternoon. He would have been
owl food for certain, last year.

Glad to know the eagles are doing all right, and that your dog missed being
dinner.

Patriarch

Ok, I guess that I have to horn in here.

We live on the edge of a small town. Our neighborhood is on a dead end
street with 7 houses but it really is city, not country. We each have
something like 3/4 acres.

We've had a pair of great horned owls who have returned here every year
for the past 10 years or so. They always seem to have 2 babies.
Several years ago their tree came down -- it was dead and fell. One of
the neighbors built a platform and climbed the next tree over to put it
up. They got the hint! Sometimes they will hang a dead rabbet over a
limb and when they get bored, they get on a neighbor's roof and look
down through the skylight to see what is going on.

We also have a pair of turkeys -- both female -- anybody who thinks gay
is a learned trait just doesn't understand. They've been walking around
the neighborhood like they own it. I've had to creep along the road
because they wouldn't move over.

One turkey (a number of years ago) learned to walk up the stairs to our
deck (about 14 of them), jump up on the railing and eat from the bird
feeder. When she jumped back down to the deck it shook the whole house.
Then she'd calmly walk down the stairs and disappear into the woods.

We've also had a lone hawk which has lived here for maybe 15 years.

Then, we are a short drive from Clarksville MO. There is a lock and dam
on the Mississippi river there so that the water does not freeze. The
golden eagles and bald eagles winter there and during the right
conditions you can see hundreds (really) of them sitting in the trees
and fishing.

And, I won't mention the deer in the neighborhood since they have become
a problem all over MO. Or the fox, or raccoons...

Patriarch wrote:
"George" george@least wrote in :


Only relation to turning is that I was delayed in hanging laundry by a
natural-edge bowl I didn't care to leave hanging on the chuck.

While hanging the towels, I got one of those corner-of -eye motion
sensations. Nothing out on the edge of the woods, though. Continuing
to hang, I got a motion sensation and momentary darkening. Look left
and up, no clouds. Look up and right, and there's a yearling bald
eagle, swinging on motionless wings, and spiraling lower - toward my
little dog!

HERE SASCHA!

Nice to know our local pair raised one last year. Year before, they
didn't. But even a yearling spans four feet.

Last seen going west toward the river, whence he came when he saw my
dog, I guess.



We miss the pair of owls that used to live in the palm trees the neighbor
had to remove. The squirrel population is up, and there was a 36" garden
snake sliding around the front patio this afternoon. He would have been
owl food for certain, last year.

Glad to know the eagles are doing all right, and that your dog missed being
dinner.

Patriarch

Bill Rubenstein wrote:
Ok, I guess that I have to horn in here.

Might as well add mine.

My wife and I live on a marsh about 400 feet square roughly in the
geographic center of a Florida city of more than 100,000 people. We have
the usual cardinals, jays, thrushes, mockingbirds, and so on. And more.
(The vultures always make me want to buy a sailplane.) One day three
years ago, we found 23 wood storks standing around in the marsh; that's
more than 2 percent of the world's supply. Two sandhill cranes visit the
marsh daily and occasionally march out across our lawn, and we now have
a pair of hawks living in the micro-woods next to the marsh. One
afternoon last autumn, a bobcat chased one of the squirrels across our
back yard; missed him, but we saw the cat again the next morning. And
here is why I am being cagey about which city it is: I don't want anyone
knowing about the other cat we've seen twice--a Florida panther! There
are only about 100 of them left.

We moved here from the center of a New Hampshire town where 2500 people
were jammed into just 25 square miles. Some nights, it is quieter here
than it was there, except for the frogs. During the day it's actually
safer to walk across to the mailbox than it was to walk over to the Post
Office there; there are fewer cars on this short residential lane.

But I still miss New England summers.

Owen Davies

I live in a townhouse, and have a pair of doves nesting in a large
flower pot that sits on the dividing wall between mine and my neighbors
patios. Have had an owl of some type in a nearby tree, but lately the
squirrel population has exploded. Come to think of it, havn't heard
that owl for awhile...

2500 in 25 square miles? Jammed in?! I live in "beautiful downtown
Burbank", which makes your NH town seem like a wilderness.

It's amazing how much wildlife makes it's way in and through our
"civilized" urban areas. I can drive a few miles to a water treatment
facility/japanese garden of a few acres at the right time of year and
see dozens of white egrets resting in the trees and water on their way
south. This in the middle of a valley of a hundred or so square miles
with a population of over 2 MILLION.

Among other comments, wrote:

2500 in 25 square miles? Jammed in?! I live in "beautiful downtown
Burbank", which makes your NH town seem like a wilderness.

Well, there was a certain amount of irony in that description. A lot of
places make that town seem like a wilderness, not least among them the
Florida city in which we now live. No doubt I should have used a smiley.

Owen

"Owen Davies" wrote in message
...
.. And
here is why I am being cagey about which city it is: I don't want anyone
knowing about the other cat we've seen twice--a Florida panther! There
are only about 100 of them left.

Big controversy up here as to whether we have cougars. Reminds me of the
Sasquatch searches. A print here, some scat there, and never a camera when
you need it.

If we don't, we must have a few females being murdered in the woods around
here....

"George" george@least wrote:


"Owen Davies" wrote in message
...
. And
here is why I am being cagey about which city it is: I don't want
anyone knowing about the other cat we've seen twice--a Florida
panther! There are only about 100 of them left.

Big controversy up here as to whether we have cougars. Reminds me of
the Sasquatch searches. A print here, some scat there, and never a
camera when you need it.

If we don't, we must have a few females being murdered in the woods
around here....




We've had coyotes riding the light rail to the airport. So far no reports
of coyotes going through security. )