Zoom, zoom, zoom!
UMASS has a pair of peregrine falcons at the top of the W.E.B. DuBois Library. The fastest animals on earth! Squirrels, duckies, and birdies beware! Some fun quotes:
"Natthorst has noticed that although mockingbirds usually like high places, here they keep a low profile:'I saw one on a treetop one day and I thought, you’d better not perch there. The next minute, it was a puff of feathers.'"
"He says: 'Every time I look into our mother peregrine’s wild eyes, I know that she would eat me if she were large enough to do it.'"
Peregrine Chickie:
An Eagle update: There are now 2 eagle chickies that Mom Eagle keeps sitting on. Yesterday, I got to see her feed the 2 youngins on Eagle TV (MCTV, Channel 17 in Montague/Turners). Lately a bunch of headless fishies lounge in the nest waiting for feeding time. Daddy Eagle seems to enjoy the heads before giving the fishies to the chickies, via Mommy. It was a whole different take on Easter chickies for me ... more nature and deathlike than cutie-pie baby chicks. Although, the eaglettes are awful damn cute. There are some still shots here where you can usually see one or two pics of the baby eagles. There was also something furry in the nest that had been munched on, but it was not identifiable ... I still have my kitties safe and sound! You can see the eagle cam live too, for 10 minutes at a time here.
Eagle chickies:
