Hi being a falconer and a pilot I know how you feel Mark UK --- On Fri, 8/1/10, Fred Johnson <f...@renotruss.com> wrote:
From: Fred Johnson <f...@renotruss.com> Subject: RE: KR> Operation Migration at my father's lakes To: "'KRnet'" <kr...@mylist.net> List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Friday, 8 January, 2010, 15:24 Mark, I feel your sentiments. I enjoy watching the owl who has made the tree out front of our house it's home this year. It sit on a branch just watching me leave in the morning for work and again it is there waiting for my return. Almost flawlessly, it is always there. it's just a barn owl, but all the same, it is beautiful to see it lift off from it's perch and take flight into the night. Birds have always fascinated me. Fred Johnson Reno, NV Langford wrote: It's almost Friday, so maybe this off-topic item will fly. I talked to my father tonight, and he told me the Operation Migration folks left his farm at daybreak this morning, headed for Climax Georgia. These are the guys who fly weight shift trikes and play Mother Goose for Whooping Cranes every year in an effort to reestablish their migratory patterns between Wisconsin and Florida. This is their second year dropping in there, and those who've seen a picture of his grass strip will know why...it's surrounded with 125 acres of lakes with plenty of waterfowl population. See http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/flights/070308132ms.jpg on that. They set up their huge pen at the far end of the grass strip in the middle of the picture, which is where I park my plane when I visit. For more on this year's flight, see http://www.operationmigration.org/Field_Journal.html . "Pike County" is my father's place. For some reason I've been really interested in hawks and eagles since visiting the Hawk Conservancy in Andover England. I see hawks everywhere now. I went to a meeting in Cambridge Maryland earlier this week, and as I was sitting in the conference room a hawk flew circles outside for about four hours. I don't think I got much else out of the meeting... _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html