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Our All About Owls program has only 12 spaces left! Don't miss one of the most popular programs we offer:https://www.usaref.org/all-about-owls/ ...

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All About Owls Early Bird Special: $35/person (expires May 15, 2019) Cost starting May 16 will be $45/person CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE One of our most popular seminars will feature seven owl species with eight different birds. From our new snowy owl, all the way down to our eastern screech owls, you...

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Ready for some good news? The golden eagle nest in Highlands Ranch on Wildcat Mountain has TWO eaglets again, for the third year in a row! Our friends at the HRCA Backcountry Wilderness Area, led by biologist Mark Giebel, do an outstanding job monitoring these eagles and protecting/closing trails. Kudos as well to the residents of Highlands Ranch for allowing this experienced pair of goldens the time and space they need to raise their young.

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Wow! Two eaglets for the third year in a row! Amazing! Last week we confirmed an egg had hatched. This week when we arrived to observe the nest, both parents were gone. Then we observed them flying around the cliffs, and they disappeared again, for about 40 minutes. Just when we were fearing the worst....this happened.

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3 days ago

I'm loathe to report this, and I hope I'm wrong, but as you will see in the video segment from April 20, something is missing. March 27th (one day before or after) would have been the hatch date of the first egg. At this point we should be seeing one or more little grayish heads popping up and wobbling around. However, as you watch the female when she gets up, nothing is evident. She's looking into the nest bowl, and at one point she moves something around, but nothing is moving around her. I watched the nest on this day for over an hour, and despite the heat waves compressed in the long zoom lens, nothing was visible in the nest. I've also not seen any feeding acivity, which should be quite active at this point. I think that during the big bomb cyclone we lost whatever the Commerce City eagles had produced this year. Again, I hope I am wrong! Last year this nest also failed due to some bad weather. The next week will be very telling in the final story for this nesting season. Talons crossed! ...

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4 days ago

Peregrine falcons show high levels of mercury in their systems. Mercury can be very nasty stuff:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6944873/Biologist-study-finds-mercury-predator-peregrine-falcons.html

Biologist study finds mercury in predator peregrine falcons
The toxic element is turning up in feathers of peregrine falcons from coast to coast, including at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, says Department of Wildlife biologist Joe Barnes. ...

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Two bald EAGLES enlisted by seaside council to fend off seagulls

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What we can't do in the US, they can do in the U.K: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6936003/Where-seagulls-dare-Seaside-council-enlists-two-bald-EAG... ...

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Lyme Regis Town Council in Dorset is trialling use of bald eagles as a deterrent for the nuisance birds. It has been so successful the council is looking to keep them around over the busy summer months.