Hi
Just popped over from the Kodak Discussion Board. What a great idea this is.
Last year when the Kodak board, at the end of all the excitement, went dead
it was very lonely. I only posted a couple of times but read nearly all of
them. I nearly missed the start of this year but for the fact I was going
through clearing old bookmarks when the Kodak bookmark led me to the
'magazine' and I was hooked again!!
I 'watch' from my office in San Diego but am originally from the UK.

Look forward to a lively board.

ttfn
Jane


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It's me, the former Linda B., using my beloved nickname "Plant Lady"
which Ann H. bestowed on me.  I like Baerbel's idea for the Members
list and will check it out next.  This is all quite new to me and it
took a while to get set up, but I'm ready to go!  I marked the no-
emails button as Mt. Woman suggested 'cause I don't want Yahoo spam,
but my buds can reach me at my new email address:
plantldy@....  I also like the idea of the group
remaining anonymous so we don't get weirdos in here.  We're weird
enough! ;-)

So glad we can be together until next spring.  I would miss all of
you so much!

We even have a chat room so we can talk in real time. Voice talk if
we want also. Neat!

Glad to be aboard-this should help us with withdrawal when the
falcons are gone.  Thanks for this site

This is going to be great.  Thank you so much for setting this up,
Mt. Woman.

Have a great 4th everybody!

Nora/OlRedHair/Mom to Wesley & Lou

Special thanks to Mt.Woman for creating this site!
aka: tracey

Hi All,

This is Carol S. from Brockport.  It's great to be here finally.  I
always seem to have trouble getting onto these Yahoo things!  But, as
you can see I finally figured it out.

Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday week and weekend.  I'll be
lurking when possible.

Thank you Mt. Woman for setting this up so we can all stay together.

Carol

I agree with "ann"(Sorry, forgot to COPY your handle) that it would
be
wise to keep this discussion unlisted for the time being...just
because
our "Kodak group" is civil and respectful. The lack of "flaming" over
the last 4 months has been amazing and wonderful.

Also, I am aware that we have already reached at least 300 members on
the Kodak board, have we not? (Correct me please, if I am way off
base.)
I am so pleased that this has been set up so that we can continue to
chat through the summer.
In case I don't get back here again today, I wish all my new American
correspondents here a "Glorious Fourth!"

Marlene: we may never know why the two eggs didn't hatch. The basic
reason has been announced -- they were not fertile (had no embryo.)

The reason why that happened may or may not be being tested. If it
is, it could take weeks or months, because it's a lengthy process
involving testing for the presence of various chemicals that may or
may not be present. So scientists take an informed "guess" at what
might be the problem and test for the presence of that. If it's not
there, they know it wasn't "compound X" but they don't know whether
or not it was "compound Y". This can go on for a long while, and get
very expensive.

Other reasons might be a very young and not fully mature sire with a
low sperm count or an older mother with eggs that just are infertile.
I'm not saying that either of these are the case, but they COULD be
and only future performance would indicate that.

Other causes might be weather related -- it did get pretty cold while
they eggs were very young. Maybe that had something to do with it.

The problem with science is that just ruling out a lot of factors
doesn't always provide the answer. It's much easier to say what it
was NOT than to say what it was.

Just me the *lurker* (Marlene) at the nest box! Posted several times,
I came across the site just as the hatching occurred.
I miss the *Falcon Family* as I viewed them many times each and every
day.
Live in North Hills California, have 2 Basset Hounds (note name
hooverdolly) you may all go view them if you desire.
http://www.geocities.com/hooverdolly/
I would really like to know if anyone has heard any news as to why
the
other eggs did not hatch?
Thanks for the great site, I did throughly enjoy this, and hope to
return to the *nesting box* next year for a family reunion!

Hello everyone.  On the Kodak (yea Kodak for another great year!)
board I wm Dave J.  I hope we can continue here what we have on
Kodak's board.  Looking forward to chatting with you all.

Dave

Had the worst time coming up with an ID, so finally made it
maryandhoward. The Howard portion will probably not take part, but
this is

"Mary in Hammondsport."

By the way, Hammondsport is a small town about 60 miles due south of
Rochester. It's on Keuka Lake, which is shaped like the letter "Y".
We have lived here for almost 13 years now. I was born and brought up
about 25 or so miles to the north-northwest of here, in another
little Finger Lakes town called Honeoye, which is on Honeoye Lake.
All of these lakes are Indian names -- the Seneca branch of the
Iroquois Confederacy lived here and the names are mangled English
versions of what they settlers thought the Iroquois names were. At
any rate, it's a great place to live.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if we had wild falcons down here in
the Lakes -- there are all sorts of cliffs where they could live. If
not, maybe in a few years. In the meantime, one of our favorite bird
sightings is to look for the heron who regularly flies up Cold Brook
to the fish hatchery about 3 miles south of here. He goes at about
noon -- apparently for lunch!

Looking forward to being on the list.

Hi to you all,Yes,it took me about half hour to sort myself out and
get into Yahoo,lol.I am pleased to be part of this group.Well done
kfalconcam,for getting this up and running!

Good morning....this is Terry from Connecticut using my Yahoo! name
of pinkyhenig2001.  Not sure how often I'll be able to check in but
it is great to know where you will all be.

Good suggestion, Baerbel! Will help a lot!

Thanks for the "on topic" photo post, 'nshack'!!

I have limited the ability to post files(I will review them) until we
all can get onboard. Just for today!

NOTICE: be sure to choose the correct 'email option' for
yourself; "individual emails" will fill your inbox in a minute..as
prolific as we are! Find the choices in "Edit my membership" at right
above. I chose 'no email' and just read all the messages here.
Or 'daily digest' will send the messages from a day.

I am so glad to see you-all showing up! It looks like it may work for
us! I will try to get the "file notification' email to the group to
not email, so that the file only comes through in the individual's
post.

Also, I will set up photo albums for us.

I am working today, so this is on its own until 4pm central.

ENJOY!

Hi Folks,
as more and more folks check in using new IDs due to signing up with
Yahoo, it gets complicated keeping the new and old names in sync (at
least for me). Couldn't it make sense to enter the name you used on
the forum as the additional (and optional) "real name" in the
membership-details? With that we'd have an easy cross-reference for
the names just by clicking on "Members" in the menue-bar to the left.
What do you think?

Cheers
Baerbel

Hi,

I haven't posted often on the discussion board, but my ID there is
Nancyindg.

I wanted to see if I could upload photos and just found that I was
successful in uploading the very last frame of Isis - just before
she fledged.

Here is the URL:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kfalconcam/files/isis.jpg

In case anyone wants to upload a photo you need to go to the
group website, click on "Files" and follow the easy instructions.

Nancy

Hi, This is Vanda Kight.  I was pretty much silent on the Kodak site,
since I am not an expert with computers or falcons, though I love
both.  I hope to open up more here.  I am a divorced, empty-nester
with four cats and a 13 year old dog.  I live in mid-west Georgia, 75
miles south west of Atlanta, on the Georgia/Alabama border.  I am an
RN who works in a Telemetry Unit of a Hospital.  I love animals,
plants, theater, symphony, reading, gardening.  I also work with the
local Humane Society.  I hope I can contribute more to this site.

Hey! Cool... Good job M.W. Crowmoma signing in. Every year I miss the
site when it closes. Now I will have something to look forward to
when I get home from work. People who love animals as I do.

Hopefully we will soon get used to how this system works. I think we
are supposed to be able to post pictures here - I bet the links from
Shaky's site will still work because they are actually web addresses.

Thanks, Mt.Woman, for setting this up and choosing to keep it private
for the moment.

It is me, Lorelei, but now I am rattlesnakemaster61.  How do you like
my new name?

Thank you, MtWoman, for setting this up. I already had an account
(bwinkler_de) at yahoo, so I'll be continuing to use that. You can
still also reach me at baerbel.winkler@... .

Cheers
Baerbel

Want to thank all who are trudging the heat to give the Mariah,
Kaver, Isis, and Freedom updates! Please continue here! The more info
about Falcons, the better, even tho it's "off-season"! Don't know if
we can post photos here tho!?

Well, here I am too. Thanks.

Hi Mt. Woman,
You go, girl, this is so cool!
OK, enough of that....it's me, Liz in Toronto. I have had a Yahoo
account since 1998....can't you tell?
Yes, I have long coached people of all ages in using their Apples/
Macintoshes.
I am thrilled that you set up this site so we can continue to chat.
Gotta quit for tonight, but I'll be back tomorrow.
Congratulations!
Liz

Thanks for all your work MtWoman! It's greatly appreciated!
BTW...this is Carol G!

So gald someone made it! This seems complicated to me compared to the
Kodak board, so I hope it workd for us all! :) I'm going to try an
experiment in this and post a link to see if we can.....

www.spaceweather.com

Well, Mt Woman, it took awhile, and I had to try several different
sign in names, but finally, here I am!!
Lyn P.

Well, you made it here! WELCOME! I am excited about creating this way
to continue communicating when the Kodak board drops off. Here's some
info for you all: this board is UN-MODERATED, so what is written
posts! It is also not listed in the directory (for now) and can only
be accessed through the URL being passed along. I can change this
later, if we find that it would be better to have it listed(I just
started out this way to discouarge "bad" postings). Well..let's get
started....