Hello? Am I on TV? Hey Mom, if you’re watching, I love you! And I just want to send props out to the cute chicks on the east side of the forest, much love and respect…
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Hello? Am I on TV? Hey Mom, if you’re watching, I love you! And I just want to send props out to the cute chicks on the east side of the forest, much love and respect…
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I really wish there was sound on that. 😛
Me, too. Boy, if a raptor can be accused of being charming, this one is!
Is it time for my Closeup ?
Awww, bebeh hawk probably sees reflection of a bird in the lense and wants to get fed!
I do believe that is an osprey, not a hawk, unless you call it a “fish-hawk.” Then I guess it is sort of a hawk. And ospreys do talk A LOT, as you can see. (I, too, wish there had been sound with that! I love the way they talk.)
Thank you for that, and since this is your first comment, welcome to the site!
Why thank ye. I just easily slid over to NTMTOM when CuteOverload overloaded out beyond the Intertoobs. I’ve been checking NTMTOM every day since, just not commenting, I guess, other than to myself. I love what you do and am so happy you took over the reins of animal cute.
OMG.
“CATS LAVE” didn’t register.
“CAT SLAVE” is hilarious!!!
Hi, Cats Lave – I’m trying to figure out your name – are you a slave to a cat? (welcome to the club) or are you always washing cats? (Smaller club – do you need bandages?) ?
That was me not paying attention to GD “spell-check.” I am definitely a slave to cats, who I do NOT wash. Nope, No way! Though, maybe Cats Lave might be an OK kind of name. They make me lave the floor a lot, after they over-top the edge of the cat box…grrrrr. They also make me laff a lot.
If you are a “Cat Slave”, then I am a “Puppy Butler”.
? I think some of the funniest comments we get on this blog are the ones where spell check has taken over, as it were.
Welcome, Cat Slave, from a bunny slave!?
And another one.??(or two, as is the case here)
hee! 😛
Does look like an osprey. Is there a largish body of water there in Lincoln, Nebraska?
Where I used to live in N. Jersey, we loved watching them dive for fish out our front
window overlooking a lake. They are very cool birds.
And here is an osprey nest in Maine, with three almost-ready to fledge youngsters. You can hear how much they like to vocalize. You might even have to turn down the sound a bit because they are LOUD.
I just watched for several minutes and they said nothing at all! 😀
The sound of the water is nice and calming, though.
They were screaming when I tuned in but then the adult flew away and they went quiet.
Mom’s back…looks like dinnertime.
I’m attaching the Cornell Lab of Ornithology info on ospreys hoping that a picture will pop-up. This beauty is not an osprey. The head is the wrong shape and the colors are wrong. It might be a red-tail hawk or perhaps a red shouldered hawk.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Osprey/id
Yes, you are right. I was wrong on the Internet. See mea culpa below!
I love the website for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. If you have a mobile device when you’re out on a nature walk, you can play their bird sounds through your phone’s speakers and often have a “conversation” with birds in the area! I had nesting wrens in my lilac tree a few weeks ago and I could get them to come over and land on the arms of my patio chair by playing Cornell’s wren songs on my iphone. Of course, I had *no* idea what I was saying in Wrenspeak at the time. Hope it was something friendly and not too territorial.
Bird’s eye view.
Who’s a pretty bird? MEeeee!
I have a small collection of photos of animals looking at cameras. Here’s one of my favorites.
Love this picture. ( I collect pictures of animals in the bath – keeps me off the streets ?)
Hope to see some of them! (Not sure what keeps me off the streets. . . I think it’s some laziness)
Here’s more stuff to keep us off the streets. There’s always the study of etymology, but in case that doesn’t work, this is a link to various live webcams in some very beautiful places. http://explore.org/live-cams/player/pacific-aquarium-tropical-reef-habitat-cam
I’ll never leave the computer! Gorgeous – thanks, EM.
That’s a great pic!
I love when animals check out the cameras! And thanks for the wild life cam link, too!???
You’re so welcome!
Here’s one more that folks might like, the number of animals is amazing, but also the sound scape of bird calls, roars, and general chatter of all the animals. It’s a little after 8pm my time as I write, and it’s just after 6am in Kenya, that may account for some of it. http://mpalalive.org/live_cam/river
I watch Safari Live almost every day, both on the morning drive and the evening. It’s pretty amazing what they do: drive around in an open Rover with a wildlife guide and camera-person, streaming live whatever they encounter. They broadcast from a small area of private reserves in South Africa’s Kruger Nat’l Park. Live. The animals in this area are used to the gawkers in vehicles because guides have been driving around for decades with no threats to wildlife.
Another nice site to bookmark! Thank you. You may have read them already, but the African safari guide stories of Peter Allison are amusing.
Cameras aren’t active during the summer, but check back in October when the Decorah eagles start rebuilding their nest, mate, lay, incubate, feed and raise 2-3 chicks to the accompaniment of the spring sounds of northern Iowa: http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles (they’ve got a nice retrospective of the 2016 season if you follow the link now)
Student philoso-raptor decides to present his thesis by video. Too bad he forgot the sound.
Maybe it’s a commentary on the non-stop noise that is modern society.
OMG! I think I am wrong on the internet! I sent this video to a birder friend of mine and this is what she says:
I am thinking this may be a juvenile Red-tail Hawk. Not sure but my best guess for now. Can’t make it into an Osprey. Think it would need to show more of a black band through eye and around head to be an Osprey.
She’s right about the black band by the eyes now that I look at the young ospreys in that Maine nest. I am so sorry to have inadvertently misled everyone due to my ignorance. Please accept my apologies. I’ll go back to lurking, now…
Please, no recriminations – I feel safe in speaking for us all we’re happy to have you aboard.?
Thank you, you are very kind. I feel so ignorant, though. This is why I am not a birder and stopped going on the winter bird counts. I like the birds all around, but I’m just not into the bird details. There are other things that make me focus on minutia, though, just not flying dinosaurs.
Hear, hear!?
Cat Slave, who hasn’t made an error in IDing? If anything, it got some birders to take a closer look. No harm done.
Know Your Salmon: a guide to speedy identification.
Ha ha ha ha! That’s good. Put a generic bird in there, now, for the kitty (and me!).
? and nice to meet you.
No touchy da fishy!
That’s MY line!
Ima touchy da fishy…
? ? ? ? ???
No! No touchy da fishy!!
Okay, I no touchy da fishy.
I eaty instead!
No problem, Cat Slave! As my father, an avid birder, always says “red-tailed hawk unless otherwise identified.” You probably introduced a lot of people to ospreys, which are truly magnificent birds of prey! Your comments are always welcome!
Oh that is so true. There are different morphs of red tailed hawks, dark and other-wise. And then the immature ones look like…well, kind of sort of like ospreys (heh) or other birds of prey. I have a similar attitude toward some native plants where I live in shrub steppe country: If you don’t know what it is, call it buckwheat until further investigation And all those different yellow daisy-like flowers? DYCs, all of them! Damn Yellow Composites (spp). Just like birders use LBJ for ubiquitous Little Brown Jobs.
Wait, what? The internet never makes mistakes! If I read it on a screen, it must be true. You have shattered my world.
Birds that prey together, stay together…
Ha ha!
Here’s a photo of my “backyard” osprey and one of the 3 bebehs she had in the nest at the time. Loves me some osprey! So talky, much fishy. (Hope the link works….)
Wonderful – lucky you!
What a lot of wonderful photos you’ve taken!
Thank you, Em!
If I could read hawk/osprey lips, I would guess he’s saying “mom, mom, mom, mom, mom….mom, mom, mom….mom, mom, mom, mom”
Seems a little …..
Lol