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    Natures Valentine

    About an hour ago, while watching the webcam over the upper geyser basin at Yellowstone national park. Wyoming, US Witnessed a rare treat...simultaneous eruption of Old Faithful(right) and Beehive geysers(left) Been there twice and not seen Beehive in all its splendor. A Valentine day...
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    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    I have to hear it, so to speak, do I not? All I'm "hearing" now, is the clock ticking. But, for what?
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    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    I personally, feel the clock has stopped ticking for our ghost bird, many years ago. Today, we have DNA technology and science that can narrow the odds to irrefutable. New, low cost fecal-DNA extraction kits out in the last 6 months. Fecal DNA extraction has been used to track rhino in Africa...
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    Will a relocated aggressive Mockingbird return?

    Been my experience that mockingbirds dominating during the winter, disperse as weather and food availability improves. I live more rural, than urban, so mockers show up infrequently 3 winters out of 19, I had mockers claiming the suet feeder, and only during cold cold temps and heavy snow cover...
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    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    The IUCN would have considerable input to governmental agencies throughout the world. Campephilus principalis When I was too young to fully understand the implications, the dusky seaside sparrow (Ammospiza maritima nigrescens) was declared extinct in 1990. Three years after the last captive...
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    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    It is easy for us to prove trolls exist among us. Proving nothing exist any longer, much more difficult
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    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    Since the mid 1940's, only one flight feather belonging to our ghost bird has been found. All the secondaries and many of the primaries are uniquely unlike anything else in North America What is not being seen is rather compelling in the argument. Conclusive photographs and/or witnessed...
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    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    Sure, I am aware of that. The stand of short leaf pine on my place is fully capable of sustaining red-cockaded woodpeckers (Dryobates borealis). Another North American Picidae in trouble. Surely, you've come across them if you venture beyond Manitee State park, and its 800 acres full of bald...
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    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    I live in the (former?) range of that bird. Grew up along the Mississippi, where the ancient stands of bald cypress, and tupelo nurtured generations of the Ivory bill. The river channelized, the habitat erased, the entire ecosystem gone for the most part. The hope exist, but realistically, I...
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    Vintage and Classic Film Cameras

    Hi Barney! Walgreens and CVS still have drop off color film and color slide developing, Couple caveats.... Negatives are not returned Turn around time is roughly 3 to 5 days for Walgreens, and 2 to 3 weeks for CVS. Some photographic stores maintain a drop off processing service. If you're...
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    Vintage and Classic Film Cameras

    Hi s' Pardon me for the delay Rusty blackbird and the deer after that were at the Harlo island section of the middle Miss. river wildlife refuge system..(NWR) Spent more time under flood water than not, since then. I've home processed B/W and color for years Use a jobo CPE 2 for color, both...
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    Nuthatch feeding Woodpecker nestling

    Our resident Sittidae, on this side of the world often stash gleaned tidbits into various cavities, such as small nooks under tree bark. I have to wonder outloud, is the nuthatch assuming a parental role? Or, merely putting away food in a handy yawning gape? Both are plausible We know that...
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    Rarest bird in Northeastern Illinois

    Guess on my part, as I'm certainly no sort of expert. Whooping crane (Grus americana) Current total population is estimated at around 826 birds. Chicago is part of its former breeding range. The current Wisconsin migratory population is just north of Chicago, app. 150 miles Perhaps other...
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    Bank swallow? NJ

    Tree swallow The relatively straight line of dark to white plumage on the face, just below the eye gives it away. On a Bank swallow, the dark would extend down much further, and with much more irregularity in the border straightness.
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    Vintage and Classic Film Cameras

    Winter has turned to spring, and the house is slowly self heating to a temperature too unpredictable for black/white film and its processing. Arista Edu Ultra 100 and 200 are economical black/white films that do a splendid job. I'm able to semi stand process using kodak HC-110. Dilution ratio...
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