Boardwalk Hawk

Paddled over to the Post Office...and back to Bobcat Meadow...when I got to the start of the
Boardwalk, Hawk flew down to the Hummocks from the Oak with the Branch that Arcs Over Half Dome....had the mini digi with, and the new camera...debated a moment which to try to use, and went ahead with the new camera, which was just as well, as Hawk flew up and away to the Tall Snag across the Meadow...followed, but lost sight...but pics!....at first I thought Hawk was Coop, but reviewing the pics, I think Hawk is Cedar....but not sure...just sure Hawk is Red Shoulder...cool that I saw Hawk, as a moment earlier I had report of Hawk at the Woodpecker Tree, seen in the morning photo class walk...and was a bit envious!....other Birds reported too...Chickadee I noted...and later in the walk, I saw several myself by Chapel Bridge....at the Woodpecker Tree, I tried out the mini digi with the new bracket, and it worked very well...clips of Acorn Woodpecker, Raven atop the Tree; and at the Bridge, clips of HairyOrDowny Woodpecker (I can't keep straight which is which...long bill this time!), and White Headed Woodecker with a touch of red on top....think it was a White....I dont look at the books so much any more!...those clips for sometime....wanted to post up Merganser at the Bridge from a few days ago...sunny warm hazy blue....a the dusk lunch sit, lots of Robins about, and saw a Mallard or Merganser flying high headed East...oh...saw Yellow Rump Warbler yesterday...blurry pic...and the Blue Jays are active...all the Birds are in fact...curious each day now to see which Birds are arriving....

Web Page of the Day:
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During a decade-long study, Canadian biologists found that red squirrels in the Yukon seem to be evolving to give birth earlier, possibly in response to a warmer climate. The scientists also discovered that sister squirrels have slumber parties on cold nights and mother squirrels plan ahead for their pups' future.
Alaska Science Forum March 20, 2003
The Secret Life of Red Squirrels
Article #1638
by Ned Rozell
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF16/1638.html
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I was looking for another story about Squirrel in Alsaka...friend at work cured me to it...see if I can find it..brb...

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Arctic ground squirrels are one species scientists have been following at Toolik. The squirrels depend on a brief spring breeding period after their eight months of hibernation underground. But climate warming is producing unfavorable spring conditions, so the squirrels are in decline.
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1404/segments/1404-3.htm
(Scientific American Frontiers at PBS site)
oh!...more
from above
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Like the guillemots studied by George Divoky on Cooper Island, it's not clear whether, or how, any of these tundra inhabitants will adapt to changing conditions.
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Guillemots!!...brb...here is link...clips and pics and interview:
http://www.cooperisland.org/

and I sent them a token.....