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  1. Mitchelle

    Penguin Swims 5000 Miles Each Year to See Rescuer

    Wall Street Journal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6McB0jhPWqs&feature=youtu.be Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dindim-the-penguin-swims-to-brazil-every-year-to-visit-man-who-saved-him_us_56e19294e4b0860f99d7f91e?ir=Green&section=us_green&utm_hp_ref=green
  2. Mitchelle

    Wisdom, the Albatross, Gives Birth at 65

    The Oldest Known Banded Bird in the Wild http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=315896&highlight=albatross Oldest Known Wild Bird Hatches Chick at 62 http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=251805&highlight=albatross
  3. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    02/08/2016—One Last Thing Just a Song Before I Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YGTPvDoJyM Out of six boxes, they flew in by themselves. See pics: http://operationmigration.org/InTheField/2016/02/07/st-marks-arrival-photo-round-up/ Heather’s turn. Carry on… https://vimeo.com/49388269...
  4. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    02/06/2016—The Last Lead Pilot Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ
  5. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    02/06/2016—Day 115 of the 15th Year Ends It All with a Thud Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; the band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, and somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; but there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey...
  6. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    02/05/2016—Winds Blew the Right Way, but Much Too Fast
  7. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    02/04/2016—Thunder Storms and Strong Winds from the North A little good news:
  8. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    02/03/2016—Winds From the South and a Rain Threat
  9. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    02/02/2016—Fog Low and Wind High Please note that the class of 2015 is in Leon County, Florida: twenty-eight miles from St Mark’s.
  10. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    02/01/2016—The Wind Map, the Moon, and the Clouds Said No When woke up this morning, I immediately activated the wind map I use: http://hint.fm/wind/ It measures surface winds, and Leon County, Florida was experiencing, roughly, four-miles-per-hour winds from the south. A couple of hundred...
  11. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    01/31/2016-18 MPH Headwind Sends Migration into February
  12. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    01/30/2016—Official and Lead Pilot Report on Today’s Flight Activate the above link and see the photo of all six birds leaving Decatur County, GA. In the second pic, although it could be only a shadow of the five in view, I’m betting and hoping that the shadow is Number Two. Richard’s turn...
  13. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    01/30/2016—Leon County, Florida There was a successful flight today. They made it to their last stop before St. Mark’s: Leon County, Florida.
  14. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    01/29/2016—28 MPH Winds at 1000 FT
  15. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    01/28/2016-Rain The Apalachee Audubon Society has invited Joe Duff to speak at their meeting this evening. The meeting starts at 1930 hours Eastern. That’s about thirty minutes from now. You can watch it here: http://operationmigration.org/cranecam.asp For now, though, it’s Jo-Anne’s turn.
  16. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    01/27/2016—Head Winds Joe’s turn: "Time on my hands could be spent with you." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6KYAVn8ons
  17. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    01/26/2016—Strong Winds out of the South
  18. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    01/25/2016—Day 103 of the Fifteenth Year They were down today. First, they report down; then, stubbornly, wanted to feel it for themselves. So now you get the gist of what happened today; but Brooke was the lead pilot yesterday, and in the words of Elton John, Brooke (who I know won’t) and...
  19. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    01/24/2016—Correction: The Swan Began This Morning Chalking it up to my focus on the disappointing notice that human-guided migrations will be no more, I ignored all the publishing dates and didn’t even entertain the notion that they would be flying today. They did: Fifty-eight miles to...
  20. Mitchelle

    Northern Hawk Owl Killed...

    ...to stop people from coming to take pictures of it.
  21. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    01/24/2016—The End Well, it’s time to roll the credits—like scrolling down the comments to Joe’s post—to the swan song of one hundred, forty more miles and two more stopovers. They will try to fly tomorrow.
  22. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    01/23/2016—Unofficially, It’s Over
  23. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    01/22/2016—Cranes Weathered the Storm By the time I woke up this morning, the worst of Winter Storm Jonas that Clay County will experience had passed through; so I monitored the chat room to get some idea of how the young ones fared. At 0936 hours eastern, Featherface1 reported, “All looked...
  24. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    01/21/2016—Winter Storm Jonas: Cause for Concern Winter storm Jonas (a heavy snow threat to much of the eastern United States) also has a warm side, which currently contains a line of severe thunderstorms that is approximately two hundred, fifty miles to the west of Clay County, Georgia, and is...
  25. Mitchelle

    Operation Migration 2015

    01/19/2016—A Sorry Day. A Sorry, Sorry Day OM was down today.., …and will be down until, at the least, Sunday: not because of the wind, not because of rain, not because of a low ceiling or fog, not because of snow, not because of freezing temperatures, not for lack of organizational interest...
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