Out of the Blue

It's Independence Day here in the US, an annual celebration of our divorce from Great Britain a couple of centuries back. Most of the festivities involve cooking out and blowing stuff up, an unlikely, yet popular combo. We're casual participants here in the BlueTower, but we do have a surprisingly good view of the local fireworks from the comfort of our living room, so we can get a lot of the experience without a lot of effort.

Here's hoping you have fun if you are celebrating, but please be careful, as driving and fireworks aren't compatible with the excess drinking that can also mark this occasion.

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Re: OotB: Going Indie
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Re: OotB: Going Indie Jul 4, 2024, 15:32
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RedEye9 wrote on Jul 4, 2024, 13:41:
Those eaglets will never fledge if the parents keep the nest supplied like it's a well stocked fish market.

I have learned a ton about Eagles and other wildlife by watching rescues/rehabs on the Enoch Wildlife Rescue channel https://www.youtube.com/@GowildlifeOrg/videos

For one, you have to be licensed to deal with eagles because of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_and_Golden_Eagle_Protection_Act
If a rescued eagle will never be well enough to return to the wild and/or there is not a need for one from education facilities/zoo's, it must be euthanized. That alone is probably one of the main reasons that licensed rescuers/rehabilitators only stick around for 3 years.


Well shit, now that weed is legal, it lost the allure, If the government say I can, no thank you, not interested. But an outlaw eagle breeder... well that's a fascinating ideal.

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