Anne Ohman

***It's on satellite pay per view too!

Deb L***

Hmmm...just checked and it's not on ours (even did a week-long search and it's not coming on within the next week). We have Dishnetwork, so that's probably the difference.

I'd like to get the DVD, anyway, to get the special features, to see how it was made. That's what we kept asking eachother during the movie, "How did they DO that??"

~ Anne




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Deborah Lewis

***Hmmm...just checked and it's not on ours (even did a week-long search
and it's not coming on within the next week). We have Dishnetwork, so
that's probably the difference.***

Oh, I'm sorry. I could record it for you but it would just be vhs, not
nearly as nice as a DVD.

I liked hearing about your sons interest in birds. (Happy Birthday Jake!)
Dylan is very interested too and saved his money for nice binoculars.
There is a WMA about thirty miles from us and we go there often. There
was a colony of American White Pelicans there for the first time this
summer. There were reports of several new colonies in western Montana
this year. I'm glad we were so close to one.

This valley we live in was contaminated by heavy metals from mine
tailings and fallout from copper smelting. It's only been in the last
ten years or so, wildlife is returning here after extensive (and ongoing)
Superfund reclamation. We can hike to the rookery and see fifteen Great
Blue Herons on the roost and Bald Eagles, Osprey and assorted shorebirds,
ducks and geese.

Dylan is a Magpie fan too. We've had a lot this year and their getting
bolder about being in town. We watched one trying to break open some
walnuts we set out one day. He picked one up and hopped along the tops
of the picket fence to the gate with a stone path beneath it. He aimed
and dropped it, then flumped down to see if it had cracked open. He did
that several times and when he couldn't get it open he took it to the
eave of the house and dropped it from there. After awhile he'd banged it
around enough to get it open.

It was great to see your post Anne, I loved reading your birding
adventures.

Deb L

Anne Ohman

***It was great to see your post Anne, I loved reading your birding
adventures.

Deb L***

You, too, Deb...and I'm imagining Jake and Dylan starting up some
unschooling bird-watching thing!

Cool!

Connections: Among these posts about unschooling bird-watchers, I also
received my Bird Watcher's Digest newsletter!

OH! I was on our back deck yesterday, reading, and a female hummingbird
came within a foot of me, sucking the nectar out of my sad summer flowers..
I had taken down the feeders since I haven't see any hummers lately, but
after watching this amazing bird so close to me, I ran inside and filled one
up again! They're much more enjoyable to observe when they are by
themselves and not being nasty defending their territory (it's the males
that are nasty to the females, though...the females are only nasty to each
other, not the males).

One more special sight I wanted to share from our river...we saw an osprey
dive into the river and pick up a fish. As it flew back up and gained
altitude, a bald eagle appeared and started attacking the osprey. After a
few hits, the osprey dropped the fish, and the bald eagle swooped down and
caught it! That osprey did his best to get his fish back, but the eagle won
the battle! THAT was an incredible sight...and how fortunate we were to be
right there to be able to witness it!

~ Anne





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Heidi

Oh, that is SO COOL! I'll never forget the time I watched a hawk
chasing down a falcon with something in its talons. It looked like
the hawk was gonna get the falcon...but he dropped whatever it was,
and the hawk swooped it out of the air and they parted. And another
time, hawks: two males, battling it out IN THE AIR, over territory, I
must assume. Or maybe over the female who was flying nearby.
Redtails, those were. They came so close to the ground in their
tussle, the loser nearly bought it.

I love raptors. SO GLAD DDT was outlawed, so there was a chance for a
comeback for them.

blessings, HeidiC


> One more special sight I wanted to share from our river...we saw an
osprey
> dive into the river and pick up a fish. As it flew back up and
gained
> altitude, a bald eagle appeared and started attacking the osprey.
After a
> few hits, the osprey dropped the fish, and the bald eagle swooped
down and
> caught it! That osprey did his best to get his fish back, but the
eagle won
> the battle! THAT was an incredible sight...and how fortunate we
were to be
> right there to be able to witness it!
>
> ~ Anne
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