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#31 |
WG Facilitator
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cajun Country, Louisiana, USA
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Who wants a boring job anyway?
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My yarden and I lean a little to the wild side. |
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#32 |
POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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This a Northern Saw Whet Owl at ~Hawk Creek Wildlife~ near Buffalo.
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#33 |
Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Nov 2008
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That would make a great poster for a nature center.
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"In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist |
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#34 |
Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Orygun
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We have short eared owls nesting in a block of shrubs at the nursery. DW is a high school biology teacher. So, my"assignment" was to collect owl pellets. I brought home a qt ziplock full. Is that true love or what?
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#35 |
WG Facilitator
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cajun Country, Louisiana, USA
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You're such a sweetheart. Mine has brought me home spanish moss on request, but I'm not sure I'd have much luck getting him to pick up and transport poop for me.
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#36 |
Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Orygun
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Someone I hope will weigh in on this but aren't owl pellets actually regurgitated from their gizzard?
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#37 |
Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Nov 2008
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Sort of. Owls don't have a crop. The pellets are formed in the gizzard. They are regurgitated from their proventriculus.
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"In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist |
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#38 |
Mentor
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: STLOUIS USA
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Going off the owl trail just a bit here, but here are some more signs and such. These are from Western North Carolina Nature Center which is a good place to visit. I talked to one of the staff members and he was very energetic about educating people on the various habitats found in the area.
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#39 |
Mentor
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: STLOUIS USA
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Bobcat tracks and they have 2 display animals. The full displays compares bobcat, cougar, dog, house cat, and fox tracks.
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#40 |
Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Orygun
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We have a nesting pair at the nursery! I'm packing the ggod camera with the goal of getting a few good images to share. Downside is rain is in the forcast all week dang it.
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