BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble

Subject: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 10:17 PM

Our holiday greeting card this year features a salute by the Frazer Blues while we were in the Pacific Northwest observing the assembly of a new webcam tower for eagles. Here's a link to the card and if you're interested in the rest of the story, scroll down to the bottom and click on "additional pictures": Click here for website!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble and JudyB

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 11:17 PM

What an interesting day! Great photos. Here in Alaska where we have so many eagles, now and again after it is rehabilitated an eagle is released back into the wild.

I have been present at two of those releases. The moment when the eagle is given a toss into the air and its wings beat strongly whoosh, whoosh, whoosh as the eagle climbs up and up and then banks and aims at the branch of a tall spruce where it rests and reconnoiters for a moment or two is always exciting. It invariably looks around as though familiarizing itself with the whole concept of freedom. Then it rises and the branch of the spruce sways up and down as the weight is lifted and the large bird flies straight away and out of sight.

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 06:46 AM

Great Piccies ! And Seasonals back to you Charlie

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 07:59 AM

Got mine in the mail. Great picture, Charlie. Merry Christmas!
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 09:22 AM

Ebbi-

There was a similar release of a rehabilitated young eagle at this site during the annual Fraser Eagle Fest in November. We viewed the video of the release on our monitor back here in Maine.

The new eagle cams on the tower are now fully operational, and the volunteer operators can pan the cameras, zoom in, and focus on the hundreds of eagles that gather for the fresh salmon take-out.

The website is set up as the Hancock Wildlife Forum. JudyB is a volunteer senior administrator for the website and I get to view only the most interesting images.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 09:30 AM

Here's a link to the Hancock Wildlife Forum: click here for website!

Don't ask me how to navigate the website!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 10:15 AM

Right back at you Charlie
Happy Holiday's to you and yours my friend

Dan

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 10:54 AM

Oh, evidently if one wishes to actually view eagles or eagle nests on the Hancock website, one needs to click on "live cameras" at the top of the website page.

Geez, JudyB, this is really much more difficult than navigating Mudcat!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: fat B****rd
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 10:59 AM

Thankyou from one Charlie to another.All the very best to you.

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: gnu
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 01:56 PM

Where did my post go? Hmmm... it was around "way too early" AM...

Right back atcha Charley. Nice card.

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: Severn
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 02:56 PM

Thanks for the Noble warming.

Nests? I thought they lived in Eagle-loos this time of year

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 06:07 PM

Severn-

Eagles don't actually live in the "eagle-loo;" they do access it from the nest with what is delicately described as "the poop shot." However, as you in particular might imagine, it's not a pretty sight when one of the big fledglings backs up to the edge of the nest just when there is a parent eagle incoming.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: JennieG
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 07:54 PM

A friend who lives in Victoria, B.C., sent me an eagle cam link earlier this year - we had great fun watching the eagle chicks grow!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: Alice
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 07:56 PM

Thanks, Charley.
Merry Christmas and a happy 2010 to you!!


Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 08:12 PM

The new eagle cams on the tower are now fully operational, and the volunteer operators can pan the cameras, zoom in, and focus on the hundreds of eagles that gather for the fresh salmon take-out.

This may sound dumb, but you don't mean this time of year there are volunteers up there, right? Don't the salmon spawn in the spring? My mind can be a little too literal at times...I just kept focusing on the "volunteer operators!"**bg**

Great pix, thanks and happy holidays!

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 08:37 PM

Kat and JennieG-

The volunteer webcam operators are sitting at home all over the world. There are some local folks who periodically have to boat across the river and service the cameras but much of the work is done on a keyboard. Fun, huh?

And I don't know what the salmon are doing running up the tributaries of the Fraser River this time of year either but the eagles are there in vast numbers and eating them. Those cams are live. Check it out!

But be warned (too late), they can become addictive.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 10:31 PM

According to my resident expert salmon in the Pacific Northwest do their major spawning runs in the fall. The eagles aren't so dumb after all.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: Janie
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 11:44 PM

Glad I kept going on those pictures. For awhile I was concerned you didn't know the difference among airplanes, whirlybirds and eagles:^)


Happy Holidays back at you!

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 11:48 PM

Thanks, Charley, I will take a look. YOu'd think I'd know that it could be folks who weren't actually there since I am married to a chief engineer who does that kind of shot all the time for news and such, duh!:-)

I know about the addiction...remember a few years ago when we all watched the baby eagles hatch out in Vancouver? Man, we were posting hourly updates, esp. Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 09:07 AM

Kat-

That was the thread that sucked JudyB in, the Hornby Island nest on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

Thanks again, Spaw, I think...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: GUEST,frogprince in Minnesota
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 08:03 PM

Good stuff, Charlie; Best of the season to you and yours.
       Dean

Subject: RE: BS: Seasons Greetings from Charley Noble
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 10:23 PM

Maybe for next year's picture I'll just shoot one of the kitchen table overflowing with scraps of gift paper, tapes, pens, boxes, and God knows what else (leftovers . . . when did we have sauerkraut?), and where is the cellphone?

Cheeriliy,
Charley Noble