My Birthday Fly Today

 

Full Moon In the Cottonwoods

 

One Horse Creek

Twenty years flying birds at this sanctuary across the road, today with Sib.

 

Higgins Avenue

 Our main drag in Missoula, Higgins Ave. yesterday at 2 pm. No one to be seen.

Christmas Eve Sibley

 

Sib Flight Sunday

 

Geese Galore

 And one swan. Lee Metcalf Nat'l Wildlife Refuge yesterday.

BAEA

Bald Eagles guard their nests, even in the winter months. Just kidding.

Yodel Doggie

 

Sib Yesterday

Peregrines guard their nests, even in the winter months.
Just kidding. Sibley perched by a Pileated Woodpecker nest in a little break from her flight at One Horse Creek.

Sunrise

 The eagle standing over her nest. We'll see if they use it this year, instead of those darned Canada geese. 

Sonora is Helping

 

Happy Ending, We Hope

 This young Red-tailed Hawk was struck by a car in September, and was reported, "Still alive, and looking right at me." Miraculous, her head poking out of the grill of a Subaru. I delivered her to our pal Becky Kean from the Raptor Conservation Center in Bozeman, and with a pinned broken wing, great health to begin with and excellent rehab, released today to fly away, hopefully to live a long life.

Front Yard, 8:05 am

 

8 am.

 

You Know Who...

 

Sunday Safety

A couple duck chases yesterday, half-hearted and one drake that was smacked barely missed a wing beat flying up the slough. What fun and Sib had a lot of high soars in the sunshine, I imagine just because she could. That's what I would do.

Go Nico!

Hunting 'em up on Sunday with the Peregrine. A practice run for ducks today by the house.

Sib Versus Merlin

A not-too-good photo but a Merlin came in for a little scuffle with the Peregrine, oh well.

 

Raptor Round-Up #59 is UP!

 Here it is, Number 59 all 8 pages and thanks so much to our Webmaster-Pal Steve Palmer as this was a trick to post after we were hacked in September by Cialis of China! No kidding. 220 in the mail (well, will be by tomorrow...) Merci Steve and thanks Raptor Backers:

"You Talkin' To Me?"