Monday OT: 02/01/21 is National Freedom Day
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National Freedom Day is a United States observance on February 1 honoring the signing by Abraham Lincoln of a joint House and Senate resolution that later became the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. President Lincoln signed the Amendment outlawing slavery on February 1, 1865, although it was not ratified by the states until later.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Freedom_Day )
OK, that's what it's about, it's not about "America's Freedoms" or "all of the freedoms that Americans Share" or anything of that ilk, which is verbiage that I have seen. It celebrates the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in the US (not in America, much of the rest of the America's had already abolished it). Those America's Freedoms (tm), the ones that the USA's creation, Al Qaeda, allegedly hated us for (per GWB) are not encompassed within the abolition of slavery as an institution. Those are not National Freedoms; they are Notional Freedoms. Like the principal in notional principal contracts, they're largely mythical and growing more so daily. You know, like speech, assembly, privacy, and just about everything in the Bill of rights except the right to bear GUNS (not arms, there are vast numbers of restrictions on various other "arms", like pocket knives). At this point I shall segue into something else before I go on a 6,000 word rant.
On this day in history:
1835 – Slavery was abolished in Mauritius.
1861 – Texas seceded from the US, but Mexico refused to take it back.
1865 – Abraham Lincoln signed the Thirteenth Amendment
1884 – The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was published
1893 – Thomas Edison finished construction of the first motion picture studio,
1895 – Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, was created
1896 – La bohème premiered
1918 – Russia adopted the Gregorian calendar.
1942 – Voice of America began broadcasting
1960 – Four black students staged the first of the Greensboro sit-ins
1964 – The Beatles had their first number one hit in the US
1968 – The summary execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém was caught on film and a still photo
1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran
1996 – Congress. passed the unconstitutional Communications Decency Act
1998 – Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne became the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry
2009 – The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was formed in Iceland, making her the country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly gay head of government.
Born this day in:
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
~~ Langston Hughes
1561 – Henry Briggs, mathematician
1687 – Johann Adam Birkenstock, violinist and composer
1690 – Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer
1701 – Johan Agrell, Swedish-pianist and composer
1859 – Victor Herbert, cellist, composer, and conductor
1872 – Clara Butt, opera singer
1894 – James P. Johnson, pianist and composer
1902 – Langston Hughes, poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright
1904 – S.J. Perelman, humorist and screenwriter
1905 – Emilio G. Segrè, physicist and academic
1907 – Camargo Guarnieri, pianist and composer
1909 – George Beverly Shea, singer and songwriter
1918 – Muriel Spark, playwright and poet
1921 – Teresa Mattei, feminist partisan and politician
1922 – Renata Tebaldi, soprano and actress
1932 – Hassan Al-Turabi, activist and politician
1937 – Don Everly, singer, songwriter ,and guitarist
1938 – Jimmy Carl Black, drummer and singer
1939 – Claude François, singer, songwriter, and dancer
1939 – Joe Sample, pianist and composer
1947 – Normie Rowe, singer, songwriter ,and actor
1947 – Jessica Savitch, journalist
1948 – Rick James, singer, songwriter, and producer
1950 – Mike Campbell, guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1950 – Rich Williams, guitarist and songwriter
1951 – Sonny Landreth, guitarist and songwriter
1954 – Chuck Dukowski, singer, songwriter, and bass player
1956 – Exene Cervenka, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1962 – Takashi Murakami, ,painter and sculptor
1964 – Jani Lane, singer, songwriter ,and guitarist
1964 – Mario Pelchat, singer and songwriter
1968 – Lisa Marie Presley, singer, songwriter, ,and actress
1969 – Patrick Wilson, drummer
1978 – Tim Harding, singer and actor
1979 – Valentín Elizalde, singer and songwriter
1979 – Jason Isbell, singer, songwriter ,and guitarist
1994 – Harry Styles, singer and songwriter
Died this day in:
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
~~ Herb Caen
583 – Kan B'alam I, ruler of Palenque
1851 – Mary Shelley, novelist and playwright
1903 – Sir George Stokes, physicist, mathematician, and politician
1940 – Philip Francis Nowlan, author, created Buck Rogers
1958 – Clinton Davisson, physicist and academic
1976 – Werner Heisenberg, physicist and academic
1989 – Elaine de Kooning, painter and academic
1997 – Herb Caen, journalist and author, popularized the term "the full Cleveland"
2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia crew
Michael P. Anderson, colonel, pilot, and astronaut
David M. Brown, captain, pilot, and astronaut
Kalpana Chawla, engineer and astronaut
Laurel Clark, captain, surgeon, and astronaut
Rick Husband, colonel, pilot, and astronaut
William C. McCool, commander, pilot, and astronaut
Ilan Ramon, colonel, pilot, and astronaut
2003 – Mongo Santamaría, drummer and bandleader
2013 – Cecil Womack, singer, songwriter, and producer
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Imbolc (Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, some Northern hemisphere Neopagans )
National Dark Chocolate Day
National Serpent Day
Spunky Old Broads Day
National Freedom Day (United States)
The start of Black History Month (United States and Canada)
Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies 
Camargo Guarnieri
Don Everly
Jimmy Carl Black, the Indian in the group
Joe Sample
Normie Rowe
Rick James
Mike Campbell
Rich Williams
Sonny Landreth
Mongo Santamaria
Cecil Womack
WAR!
There is one day each year, December 25th, on which many purport to celebrate "Peace on Earth and Goodwill to Men". Well, this ain't it McGee, this is one of the other 364 (or 5) during which we celebrate, perpetuate, commit and commit ourselves to WAR!, endless and exalted. The foundation of our economy, the employer of ever so many and the source of our eternal pride, WAR! So remember, though it may not be good for living things, it is what keeps this country running and keeps its ruling elites happy, so hooray for war!
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Good morning...
What freedumb? Is it just a matter of time before something like this coup happens in the US? Imagine the internet and flights shut down by TPTB if we get too organized.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/world/asia/myanmar-coup.html
Those who suggest it can't happen here I'm afraid are deluded. If TPTB feel threatened, don't put anything past them.
It's cold and gray this AM. Tomorrow is supposed to be in the 30's all day, and next week dropping into the teens. Well, it is mid-winter. In fact tomorrow marks the mid-point.
Have a good one and everyone enjoy the day!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout. It isn't whether or even when it
can happen here, it is and has been happening here, but not quite so crudely and not so much by magamen and other such elements. The owner class and the corporates are having their will and their way with the country and its economy and its resources and, most especially, its populace.They can seize your property, freeze your accounts, incarcerate you or restrict your movement, legally, for simply suspecting you of things, an accusation is all they need, not any facts or evidence. Annnnd, many of those things are simply thought crimes, the wrong kind of heresies. Meanwhile, they are above the law. A corporation can commit enormous crimes and pay a severely disproportionate fine or fee and none of its principals will do a day of time. As a rule, they don't need the troops, the cops or the sekret police to control us, we just go along with it because if we don't we are toast.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Better not threaten power...
cause as up-chuckie says, "they got six ways from Sunday of getting you."
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/27/schumer-intelligence-agencies-have-...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
everything in the Bill of rights
is notational at best
the idea of freedom still looms in the minds of the undecided
our rights have been whittled away by the big 3:
courts, legislation and executive fiat
corporations are free to pillage
the military is free from accountability
and the masses are free to enjoy poverty
the richest democracy in the free world
or not
question everything
Good morning QMS. Thanks for the succinct summary.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning, el ~~
Auspicious date 2.1.21.
Enjoy the day!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Good morning RA. In a different format it is a palindrome -
1,2,21
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
funny you should notate that way. It is difficult to find a
US form which allows for the European convention of day, month, year. Same with calendar, or any software for that matter. We have everything in the EU/French scheme. Up to month 12, it is difficult to tell if we are reading days or months first.
Very rainy, too warm: 50°f and much higher this week. Insects are coming out, birds haven't arrived, field onions are up, and bushes and trees are showing signs of awakening. It will get cold again and stay dreary for months. The birds and bats don't stand much of a chance. Inertia kept them going for a decade or two, but now there is perceptible drops in numbers.
We have a very healthy bunch of Mésanges at our birdtable (British English for bird feeder):
mésange charbonnière
mésange bleue
Méssange nonette
https://www.oiseaux.net/oiseaux/mesange.nonnette.html
Yes known to us as Chickadees. They have all different parts of the songs we know from the Pacific NW.
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beautiful birds...
Our common one is the black capped chickadee.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Our primary one in this ares is the Chestnut Backed
we do get some mountain chickadees, in the mountains, of course
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
love those Chestnut-backed
Chestnut-backed has to be the fanciest chickadee in the U.S. They are beautiful. I think my lifer was Tomales Bay, about '67 or so.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
They breed in my yard, They brounce all around the yard
like insane dervishes. They also saturate my general neighborhood, so this isn't the only yard they nest in.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hi LO
Actually that picture does appear to be of a Black-capped Chickadee, but the only Chickadee south of roughly the Mason-Dixon line (except at high altitude in the Apps) is the Carolina Chickadee. Which looks VERY like a Black-capped. Some minor differences, especially less white on the wing, calls are very different. They do hybridize and there is a hybrid zone in the contact area where range overlap. Carolina is smaller, less buffy on sides, and shorter tailed. It is the only chickadee in most of the SE U.S.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Good morning Dawn. For personal purposes, my
fallback format is mmddyy, though when 20xx years were new I shifted to mmddyyyy for a bit. In personal stuff, for example, today is 010221 which has a lot to do with sorting since crude/simple string based info handlers will mix and match 1, 10, and 11 if written without dashes or slashes.
Dose boids, per most of my sources and references are Tits. In particular, those two are the Great Tit and the Blue Tit. The old world Paridae were known as tits long before all the invaders of this country decided to call most of those here "chickadees" onomatopoeically. The original name for the group did somewhat carryover with respect to the titmice, however, which you will also find up there in the PNW.
/pedantic birder mode off
Thanks for the great photos.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
you are correct EL
Yes of course, Great Tit and Blue Tit they are.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
great pix DM!
As EL pointed out, they are called tits in Europe/Asia, actually all the rest of the world except the U.S. where they are chickadees. They are a bunch of great ones, but your two, Great and Blue are two of the prettiest. There are also Penduline, Long-tailed, Azure, Coal, Crested. Bearded, Sombre, Siberian, Willow, and Marsh Tits. They have great diversity over there.
Have always wanted to see a Blue...
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
As you are our resident bird name expert...
In France they fall generally under Méssanges with modifiers like Charbonnière, Bleue, Nonette, Boreal, Huppe (crested) and more. We have British bird books (where some of this great variety are called Tits) and the French and European Bird books where they are called different names depending on the country. The last one I linked to is from oiseaux.net, which has information on the Nonette. Also ranges, nesting, and short snips of song. Pictures of country flags with the local names are also included.
The Latin names surprised us as they fall into distinct species different from one another. We've lost some of our favorite birds, but picked up others which would be exotic in the US. We have to use Latin to connect the various country names.
Latin/French/British bird names table
one of our favorites which is Eurasian - about the size of a Western Flicker:
European Hoopoe
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upupa!
That Hoopoe is a bucketlist bird for lots of birders not lucky enough to live where they are. I know a guy whose user name is their genus, Upupa. I have never been across the pond so not seen one, maybe one day.
So what does the french Messanges translate to, do you know?
Generally only in America do we learn bird names without learning the binomial. Which is not the standard elsewhere. Because of what you say... every country has its own name for various groups, and species. Here we do often learn say insects that way, at least serious study, but birds are called by common name here. The scientific names are used in much of the world.
Thanks for the link!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
"The Internationale"
The international working class shall free the human race
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJQe0w20saE&feature=emb_logo]
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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Good morning gg. Thanks for the Internationale. The exact
version I learned in my youth doesn't seem to show up in any resources I can find and is hence fading from memory as I forget a word or phrase or two here and there.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
“The Internationale” – Billy Bragg version
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAw0Ri4FSdM]
国际歌 Guójìɡē
noun (the) Internationale
▸ 大会在国际歌声中结束。
The conference was concluded to the soundtrack of the Internationale.
nice, the closest to what I remember it sounded back
in the late sixties in Germany.
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Freedom in our lives
Good Monday morning to all! Guess I should enjoy my freedom while it is still part of my life. Just was reading how woman’s rights in Texas to own property and be her own master were limited until the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Freedom is something we must remain vigilant to protect as best we can.
Weather here is in the 60’s and dry so will enjoy my freedom and enjoy the outdoors with a nice bicycle ride this afternoon once I am finished with yoga in the morning.
Life is what you make it, so make it something worthwhile.
This ain't no dress rehearsal!
Good morning jb. "Eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty" as I recall. Women have long been property, chattels, if you will, but, generally not so brazenly as those enslaved by assorted contracts outside of wedlock. They were sold or bartered from fathers to husbands and never really free for a moment until widowhood. Legal and cultural relics of that state and status have persisted ever so long in certain uncivilized parts of the world.
Glad you have nice weather for cycling. It is supposed to get up to 64 today, so time outside is called for at some later point here too. Hoping you get some precipitation in the night time hours if, as I suspect, it is needed.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning all
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Saw them in concert many moons ago. RIP Jani Lane
Good morning Jen. Great video, thanks.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
A dupe, better do something creative with it or I might get
scolded, heh.
As I recall, Lookout provided an opening for use of this old chestnut, which I did consider posting in reply, so here we go ---
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
“Getting the old band back together again” department
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/01/exxonmobil-and-chevron-...
Good morning lot. I saw that, thanks for including it here.
It is the way things work in a "free market, especially a completely unegulated one, such as was the dream and goal of Ronnie Raygun and his disciple Bill Clinton.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Well all have the freedumb
to live before we die. Anything beyond that is, well, extra no? I hate the lie that is this country. I hate the daily cogitative dissonance that is required to live in this country.
Anyone have the number of Goethe Girl? She's hot!
(lol)
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Good morning rand. sorry, can't help, with either the
cognitive dissonance that we all suffer or the phone number.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Musician buddy told the story
Of an attractive young woman who was highly interested in him.
Another musician in the circle asked, "Did you get her number?"
He said, "Hell no, I didn't need it. I had her fingerprints."
Funny at the time anyway.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
still funny.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
If today is National Freedom Day, I say somthing
isn't quite right with it or with me, because I have never felt more locked down, caged, isolated, alone, hopeless than today and I am internationally confirmed in my feelings.
I love me my Goethe. Thank God, we can sing. I love me my Internationale. Gives me a couple of seconds hope there will be better times to come.
WTF, I searched for a nice video featuring the Internationale, but all seemed not to have the right sound.
May be this one is kinda ok.
[video:https://youtu.be/v85NWc0RIKc]
Wish you all you stay warm during the snow storms, have a shelter that is dry, enough food and some ear worm in your head that keeps you going on.
Did I say I love the wise men and women of this site? I do, including all Docs. I just would like to know you all in person and not through this 'verdammte Internet.
Tomorrow is another day. Oh well, that is probably right, but are you sure?
Good Day.
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Good morning mimi. Yeah, it ain't right at all and yeah, my
favorite rendition of L'Internationale is also impossible to find. I do, however, have this, from Rudesheim am Rhine:
it is affixed to the outer wall of der Adlerturm --
AND, as a bonus, it's only about 100 meters from a taste of home
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Oh wow, can you believe that I have been four years now
back in Germany and haven't been able to drive to any other city than Berlin and Hamburg? Haven't visited all those cities in the former DDR. I just don't know how to get out of my cage here without causing damage to others.
Same was true for the US. More privileged folks than me, surrounding my family, have seen more of the US than me as tourist visitors. I stood put in DC for 36 years, one visit to New Orleans, one visit to Chicago and one visit to LA up to San Francisco to Mendocino. I remember nothing of Chicago, a tiny bit of the New Orleans, almost nothing of SF. Well, it was over 34 years ago and I had a lot of distracting stuff in my head.
I just wonder why. Apparently I am member of the working class since age 20.
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one can get very caught up the the day to day business
of life and living. Perhaps even too caught up.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
It's just another word meaning nothing left to lose.
Goes along with the Goethe quote and it's pretty much spot on. I'm especially cynical this morning.
Good morning MM. Don't need to be cynical to appreciate
tht Goethe quote, it's one of the classic verities of live.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning, one and all!
My legal asst. called in sick this morning. If she has the virus, I am sure to have it, too. We shall see. She might have some ordinary stomach upset.
It is a lovely day here. Sunny, mid-50's, hardly any breeze. I would enjoy being outside, but duty calls.
I was able to spring a young woman out of jail on a personal recognizance bond. She will see the free world for the first time in 30 days. Hope she will swing by the office on her way home.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning otc. Congrats on freeing somebody, if
only temporarily. There is always a chance that your assistant could have the virus and you might not, there are plenty of instances of that kind of thing happening. It all depends on a lot of things. Hoping for the best for both of you.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Mornin' EL
Dreary here in Vancouver, Wa. but 50°. Peas, pole beans, tomatoes have come up in the seedhouse. Broccoli is ready to come out and go in the window to finish growing a little more. Hope to plan5 them in the garden by mid month.
Freedom is being able to plant whatever we want, until Monsanto takes over.
Thanks for hosting the OT.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Good morning earthling. Sounds like you're doing great
on the garden front. My wife has some seedlings starting inside by a window. We have some chard, a few carrots and a few onions (probably spring onions) in the ground as well as some mysterious member of the bok choy clan and an indomitable Portuguese kale that was transplanted many times and possibly started from a cutting and now is a tall stem with foliage only at the top. No seed house or green house, which is too bad because I would have liked to do some pole beans as an experiment.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hi EL, and all,
Sonny Landreth is awesome, he invented his own technique and style with that slide, and a sound like no other. I am a sucker for creative originality. Rich Williams was awesome too. I saw Kansas, on maybe their first west coast tour in 1974 I think it was, Long Beach Arena, they were an opening act and played most of their first album straight through. It was all they had at the time. They were awesome, I was blown away. Have that first album on vinyl.
Hope all is well!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Good evening dysto. Yeah special musicians, especially
Landreth. First time I heard him (a you tube courtesy of either Joe or NC Tim) I was blown away.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Afternoon el
Et al
Think my young peregrine may be a cooper’s hawk. Eating a lot of birds at my feeder. We do have coopers’s up in the hills but not here. I am looking at the size of the eyes and beak which are smaller and the tail is lightly striped.
Rain come but not an atmospheric river this time.
Take good care.
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Evening magi. We get Coopers here, you should too, also
sharpies. Peregrines, even immies have those "malar stripes" kind of like sideburns which are rare outside of the various falcolns. If you can get a really good luck at the bill with binos, check the nostrils. Peregrines have a little cone pointing outward right in the center of their nostrils, like a lot of jet engines. They deflect the shockwaves away from the nasal passages to keep them from blowing out their lungs on those super high speed dives of theirs.
Rain due tonight, not here yet.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Raining here now
Thx. Will look for the nostril formation. There is an adult peregrine right here in our neighborhood. We have Cooper’s in the hills. Never seen one down here nor hv my birder friends. It’s eating about three birds an hour. Sits on top of one of my sculptures and waits. the siskins also hv salmonella but do not pass it on except to chickadees and we hv been told to remove the feeders for 3 weeks. Or keep them clean - a fools errand, the cleaning.
Edit to add the peregrine eyes are black and the Coopers are yellow, smaller and closer to the nose. Peregrine is definitely aerodynamically designed. Beauty.
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very cool Maggi
My wife says sometimes we are running an accipiter feeding station here. Hunting at bird feeders in a yard is an accipiter. Cooper's, Sharpy, or Gos (rare and unlikely). Falcons like Peregrine, Merlin, and Prairie hunt in open areas generally by flushing the prey, and then taking it in the air. Accipters mostly take their prey on the ground and hunt in woods, hedgerows, around feeding stations, brushy habitat where falcons simply cannot maneuver.
One easy tell is are the wings pointed sharply, or rounded? Falcons have long pointed wings and wingtips, accipiters have short rounded wings, for tight turns in tight places.
If you see three birds taken in a day, you have three different individuals hunting there. Only when feeding young would one bird do such a thing. I age and sex virtually all birds every time I can and by doing so know there are at least four Sharp-shinned Hawks hitting the birds here: ad. male and female, imm. male and female. Same for Cooper's Hawk here! They do not eat more than a bird every couple days when not feeding young.
For both (Coop and Sharpy) males are much smaller than females, and then of course the imm.s are brown above and vertically streaked below, the adults are gray above with horizontal rufous streaking below. The biggest female Sharpy is still smaller than the smallest male Cooper's though. If it is more than barely bigger than a Robin, it is not a Sharpy.
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For all the info. Very helpful. It’s gone today. Hope its family is well fed.
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