At 09:10 PM 1/30/98 -0500, you wrote: >bye bye bliven >still searching for that someone whose had a bird on deck. > I flipped a jetskier the bird one time from my deck. . . ;^) Geo. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
Wayne tells me that: It counts as butterflies. ;-) Only dragonflies count as dragonflies, though damselflies are a close second. ================= Alright. A couple of years ago the Washington, DC *Dragon Boat* ladies showed up at the local canoe/kayak race. They were very impressive. does that count? bye bye birdie bliven *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
At 05:08 PM 1/30/98 -0500, Larry Bliven wrote: >Wayne tells me that: > >It counts as butterflies. ;-) Only dragonflies count as dragonflies, though >damselflies are a close second. >================= > >Alright. >A couple of years ago the Washington, DC *Dragon Boat* ladies showed up at >the local canoe/kayak race. They were very impressive. > >does that count? Yes! that counts, Larry! Well done! ;-0 I should have been more specific in my rankings: 1)Dragon Boat Ladies 2)Dragonflies 3)Damselflies 4)lesser life forms Wayne *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
> From: CHUCK_at_multitech.com (Chuck Holst) > I once > saw a snowy owl sitting at the base of Palisade Head on Lake > Superior. I have heard that they sometimes hang out around the > grain terminals in Duluth to feed on mice. They are very striking > birds (no pun intended). > > Chuck Holst Paddling the Aransas Pass Wildlife Refuge near Corpus Christi, we had a pair of whooping cranes fly right over our heads! The rare whooping crane makes this its winter home. Their migratory habits are interesting. I am particularly interested in whoopers which are the tallest of all North American birds (5 feet standing), are quite beautiful, are still endangered but are making a slow comeback. In 1941 their numbers fell to around 14 or 16. After establishing refuges for the species and other recovery plans enacted by the US and Canadian Whooping Crane Recovery, the numbers are in the hundreds (not all in the wild, however). Late February is the height of the migratory season in Aransas Pass then they head back north to Canada. US Fish and Wildlife Service has established a nesting ground in Kissimmee Prairie in Florida. One plan was to attempt to imprint on whooping crane chicks the 850-mile migratory route of sandhill cranes from Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Idaho to Bosque Del Apache national Wildlife in New Mexico in order to establish additional migratory routes for the whooping cranes. To do this, researchers placed the eggs of whooping cranes into the nests of the Sandhill cranes who would raise them, teach them to fly south with the flock and begin a new colony of whooping cranes. Problem was, the imprinting was so complete that the whooping cranes would not mate with other whooping cranes. 8-} If you want to know more about whoopers, check out the following (also gives launch points to paddle the area near the refuge and lots of links) http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/info.html#info3 Cheers! Jackie _ .==(~"\ ) / _ .'/ __ _ ___ \\ { `~.. / \(Q)/ \ \\ \ `. |`| `\ `. `. ^ ^ ,sSSs,\, ``\ , \ )\w/( ,sSS..)/{) `|\|"\\\ <<..> sSSS_v)/ \ | \ "`" )<*> sSS[(\_]___\ | / <(_/_o_o_ 'sS[_`-+---+) |/ \----+-------+-------'---`-----\--------n----') ~~~~~~~ ~~jf ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~\~ ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ o \ o \\ o o \\ o o ` (\ o o >jf:-) o (/ o *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
Greetings, all -- Last weekend we did a little lunch paddle in San Pedro Harbor (between Long Beach and Palos Verdes) and the weekend previous in the Upper Newport Bay. The purpose of these 2-hour jaunts is bird watching and a floating picnic. Very calm water, just pleasant sight-seeing trips. So what have we seen in the last few weeks around here? Great blue, green, and black-crowned night-herons; great and cattle egrets; red-tailed, sharp-shinned, cooper, and marsh hawks; turkey vultures; american kestrels; avocets; buffleheads; coots; western and pied-billed grebes; american bitterns; canadian and snow geese; terns; a sora (!); white and brown pelicans; cormorants; hummingbirds; loggerhead shrikes; an immature bald eagle; mallard and mexican ducks; pintails; cinnamon teals; a belted kingfisher; red-winged blackbirds; long-billed curlews; willets; various sandpipers and surfbirds; and guess what? gulls! And none of them have ever landed on my kayak :-( I guess I'll have to put more breaded snails on the bow ;-) Here's a question for anyone in Southern or Central CA...have you been to Soda Lake in the Carrizo Plains when the Sand Cranes are there? I heard from a naturalist it is possible to camp there and kayak when the lake is sufficiently wet (it's not there in summer at all) to look at the cranes. I'd like to do that this year and would appreciate any information. >///:>Chris Hardenbrook<:\\\< Sunny Southern California *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, wayne steffens wrote: >> >>At 05:08 PM 1/30/98 -0500, Larry Bliven wrote: >>>Wayne tells me that: >>> >>>It counts as butterflies. ;-) Only dragonflies count as dragonflies, though >>>damselflies are a close second. >>>================= >>> >>>Alright. >>>A couple of years ago the Washington, DC *Dragon Boat* ladies showed up at >>>the local canoe/kayak race. They were very impressive. >>> >>>does that count? >> >> >>Yes! that counts, Larry! Well done! ;-0 >> >>I should have been more specific in my rankings: >> >>1)Dragon Boat Ladies >>2)Dragonflies >>3)Damselflies >>4)lesser life forms >> >> >>Wayne you left out paddlequeen's, jackie was voted in yesterday, incase you hadn't moved yet ;-) [and i don't wanna be in your shoes/boat tomorrow]!! mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com-------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/cpr [Colorado Paddlers' Resource] http://www.diac.com/~zen/rmskc [Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club] http://www.diac.com/~zen/rmcc [Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page] http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark [personal] -- Fortune: "You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do." *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
At 06:45 PM 1/30/98 -0700, Mark Zen wrote: >On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, wayne steffens wrote: > >>> >>>At 05:08 PM 1/30/98 -0500, Larry Bliven wrote: >>>>Wayne tells me that: >>>> >>>>It counts as butterflies. ;-) Only dragonflies count as dragonflies, though >>>>damselflies are a close second. >>>>================= >>>> >>>>Alright. >>>>A couple of years ago the Washington, DC *Dragon Boat* ladies showed up at >>>>the local canoe/kayak race. They were very impressive. >>>> >>>>does that count? >>> >>> >>>Yes! that counts, Larry! Well done! ;-0 >>> >>>I should have been more specific in my rankings: >>> >>>1)Dragon Boat Ladies >>>2)Dragonflies >>>3)Damselflies >>>4)lesser life forms >>> >>> >>>Wayne > >you left out paddlequeen's, jackie was voted in yesterday, incase you >hadn't moved yet ;-) [and i don't wanna be in your shoes/boat tomorrow]!! > >mark > Who is dragging all these Boat Ladies???? Do you still drag them by the Hair? Caveman should know this one. Dana *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
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from Chuck > I once saw a snowy owl sitting at the base of Palisade Head on Lake > Superior. I have heard that they sometimes hang out around the > grain terminals in Duluth to feed on mice. They are very striking > birds (no pun intended)... and from Jackie >Paddling the Aransas Pass Wildlife Refuge near Corpus Christi, we had >a pair of whooping cranes fly right over our heads! The rare whooping >crane ... ======================== thanks for the bird info. for many of us, nature is a big reason to be out there and although full lenght articles in printed media are fantastic, i appreciate hearing about the cool stuff that folks see. hopefully nature postings will be regular features. bye bye bliven still searching for that someone whose had a bird on deck. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
At 09:10 PM 1/30/98 -0500, Larry Bliven wrote: > >hopefully nature postings will be regular features. > >bye bye bliven >still searching for that someone whose had a bird on deck. >============================================================ >For Immediate Release: Contact: Georgia Parham (812)334-4261 >x 203 >January 29, 1998 E-Mail: >Georgia_Parham_at_mail.fws.gov >EA98-14 Joseph Budzyn (847)298-3250 >x 110 >E-Mail: Joseph_Budzyn_at_mail.fws.gov > > >VISITING WHITE PELICAN FLIES HOME VIA Wayne's kayak > > >A white pelican, rarely seen in the Midwest and apparently swept into >northern Illinois by bad weather, will get a free ride back home to >Florida thanks to help from Wayne's kayak, the Illinois Department of >Natural Resources, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. > >The white pelican, a species normally found in western and southern >states, was discovered in mid-December along the Kankakee River in >Kankakee County south of Chicago. Friendly fishermen provided food for >the wayward bird, but when temperatures plunged and the river froze, the >Illinois DNR was called in. The pelican was taken to a wildlife >rehabilitator in Aroma Park, who has been caring for the bird until it is >ready for Wayne's kayak. > >The pelican will fly home the easy way, in a container aboard Wayne's kayak. >Upon arrival, the bird will be >met by state wildlife agents who will release it, or if necessary, place >it in the care of a wildlife rehabilitator until the pelican is ready for >return to the wild. > >White pelicans, while not an endangered species, are a rarity in this >part of the country. These birds nest near lakes in western states and >spend their winters along the Pacific Coast in central and southern >California, along the Gulf of Mexico in Texas and Louisiana, and >throughout Wayne's kayak. > >Among the largest birds on earth, adult white pelicans weigh 17 pounds or >more and sport wingspans over 9 feet. White pelicans have a long, >distinctive reddish bill and the large pouch for which the species is >famous. Their plumage is white with black wing tips. They eat fish, >crayfish, and salamanders, sometimes working in groups to drive fish to >shallow water where they are easier to catch. > >White pelicans are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, a >Federal law aimed at conserving populations of migrating birds, including >waterfowl, birds of prey, and songbirds. Enforced by the U.S. Fish and >Wildlife Service, the act was passed in 1916 to stop the decline of bird >populations which were being decimated by market hunters seeking meat, as >well as feathers for the fashion industry. Amended most recently in >1989, the act also regulates sport hunting of migratory game birds and >provides full protection for many other species of migratory birds. > >-FWS- > >============================================================ >News releases are also available on the World Wide Web at >http://www.fws.gov/~r9extaff/pubaff.html They can be reviewed in >chronological order or searched by keyword. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
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