Geese....

Mags · 21-09-2007, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by dandysmom

They are! Bigger than eagles. What I'd love to see, speaking of large birds, is a condor!! Have just seen them on nature shows, they must be breathtaking in real life........

We used to have all the large birds of prey at our zoo but like the larger animals, they have gone too.

dandysmom · 21-09-2007, 09:46 PM

In a way I miss not seeing them at the zoo and letting children learn about them, but living in a cage, albeit a large one, is no life for birds that are meant to be soaring free.....

babycakes · 21-09-2007, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by dandysmom

In a way I miss not seeing them at the zoo and letting children learn about them, but living in a cage, albeit a large one, is no life for birds that are meant to be soaring free.....

I struggle with that too

Mags · 21-09-2007, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by dandysmom

In a way I miss not seeing them at the zoo and letting children learn about them, but living in a cage, albeit a large one, is no life for birds that are meant to be soaring free.....

I agree Eileen .........they need their freedom. Unfortunately many people are unlikely to ever see them now in the flesh (or should that be in the feathers

)..

Moli · 21-09-2007, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by dandysmom

Large ugly scavengers, but they are magnificent to watch in flight...they can soar for hours on the thermals...quite common here...
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAbou...y_Vulture.html

Thanks DM, they are ugly, but fascinating....do look a lot like turkeys!

dandysmom · 21-09-2007, 10:24 PM

That's one of the things I love about this forum; we all can learn so much: I'd never heard of pink footed geese, and some of you didn't know turkey vultures.......

Moli · 21-09-2007, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by dandysmom

That's one of the things I love about this forum; we all can learn so much: I'd never heard of pink footed geese, and some of you didn't know turkey vultures.......

You probably have widlife across the pond, I have never heard of or seen....

dandysmom · 21-09-2007, 10:30 PM

And the same for me: like the blue tits you posted pics of recently; always nice to learn about other peoples wildlife. We don;'t have hedgehogs, which I think are as cute as buttons! But we have possums and raccoons and coyotes right here in the City! And white-tailed deer and black bears in the suburbs!

Moli · 21-09-2007, 10:35 PM

Black Bears!! thats something DM, would love to see them...We have deer, in fact they are quite common where I live, see them often....

Mags · 21-09-2007, 10:39 PM

I just couldn't imagine living anywhere that close to black bears

Do they do much damage Eileen?

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