Join us tomorrow (Saturday) for a Raptor program at the "new" Missoula Public Library downtown at 1 pm. Free and school-aged kids please, up on the 4th floor in the big Cooper Room. A PowerPoint and Teaching Team Birds, Little Billie the Northern Saw-whet Owl, Sonora the Aplomado Falcon, Jillian the Great Horned Owl and TED Talk star, and one BIG surprise!
Missoula Community Access Television's Young Filmmakers' Camp, every year! Yesterday we had a great one and actually started doing these with the International Wildlife Film Festival and Ron Scholl back in Clinton in 1989, if you can believe it. Five films featuring our resident raptors, then a trip to the river. Thanks Scott and Neil and young film enthusiasts. MCAT!
Man O Man, the female fledgling Bald Eagle wanted some food from our eagles today, Nigel the Golden Eagle did not care bit, a few feet apart. And still there, this shot.
Here's a fun one of Owen the Northern Saw-whet Owl "caching" (actually hiding and storing) his half-eaten mice in his building in 2012, maybe to finish eating later. Doubt it. Cracks me up.
I would never have spotted "our" heron if I hadn't seen her land by our little slough bridge today. Blending in. And probably a male...oh well.
I brought Mischa the Peregrine inside, protesting galore on the trip but okay on her perch, mostly. This bums me out beyond description, as she was the sweetest bird I have ever met until we had to move her away from the new warehouse by her enclosure. Then cleaned her building and the dogs may have found some quail treats in the old pine needles.
Sonora our Aplomado Falcon Pal comes inside most days of the week, spends cold winter nights on a perch in the spare bedroom, and here is a shot taken from outside the front window. She has a bunch of programs in the next few weeks, taking over for the late Sibley the Peregrine. Too bad Mischa the Peregrine, her cousin, refuses any form of travel, like leaving her building. A shame and not getting any better.
What an image, and a new friend set me this: "Owl taken near Darby, Montana. Once in a lifetime." She approached this Great Horned Owl in the dark and snapped this shot with her smart phone, one eye lighting up with the flash!
The male brought a fish in but I missed it by 20 seconds, oh well.
A little sibling rivalry and the nearby one wanted that!
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