May 15, 2006

Eeek! A BlogMeme

the reveres challenge me to come up with my ten favorite birds. Pardon me while my nails dry. I'm a birder and this is not hard.

the little green heron

the ivory billed woodpecker, every birders delight

The common loon whose song graces the woods of northern Minnesota and Ontario. The reveres and I are common loons.

The Ruby Throated Hummingbird whom I feed in my back yard and lands on my fingers. The most fearless avian.

Cooper's Hawk, I find the raptors extremely beautiful.

The north American Osprey is a mighty fisher and fantastic to watch.

Seeing the red-wing black bird in the field always lifts my spirits. They are beautiful and strong enough to throw hawks out of their feeding grounds. I like feisty.

Cardinals are beautiful, mate for life, and have a wonderful song that wakes me up in the morning. What's not to like.

Robins are first up in the morning and have a loud and liquid song. There are some mornings that I want to throw a shoe at them.

I would like to ask the reveres to pause and ask how far into this they want to get. I'm a pelagic birder and go on expeditions in far seas to observe rare birds I can beat the ducks' tail off you and Lindsay.

I can also suggest what a captive hummer will do to you. You won't like it.

The reveres remind me that I need to tag another blogger. Oh, Susie? Your turn.

Posted by Melanie at May 15, 2006 12:32 AM | TrackBack
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Melanie: How far into it? Since my idea of a bird is that it is a hand signal, I don't even know how to answer it. But don't forget to tag another lucky blogger!

Posted by: revere on May 15, 2006 08:30 AM

Melanie:

I have a preference for owls. Snow owls are gorgeous and Great Greys are majestic.

A few years ago, I was flying a Cessna 150 over the Willapa Hills region in Pacific County, WA, about 20 miles northeast of the mouth of the Columbia River. I was just fooling around on a sunny summer afternoon enjoying the view at about 3,000 feet AGL when I saw a bald eagle soaring off to my left about 100 yards away.

"What the hell are you doing up here," I thought to myself. Bald eagles are fairly common in western Washington, but not at 3,000 feet AGL. Apparently, the eagle had got caught in a thermal that carried it aloft.

I had a set of binoculars with me and I wanted to check out the eagle, because it looked so graceful, so I retarded my throttle and applied 10 degrees of flaps so I could fly slow without stalling the aircraft.

I circled around that eagle for about five minutes before I spooked him. The eagle suddenly tucked in its wings and went into a near-vertical dive. I advanced my throttle and retracted the flaps so I could make a steep left bank and watch the bird out of my window.

The eagle dived for about 1,500 feet when I saw it spread its wings, pull out of the dive and resume level flight.

I put the Cessna into a deliberate spiral - the only aerobatic manuever you can do in that bird except for a whip-stall - and recovered at about the same altitude where I last saw the eagle.

Sadly, I lost sight of the eagle. I cruised around for a few more minutes looking for it before I continued on to Astoria where I shot a few touch-and-go's and refueled.

But here's the point of this tale and the thought that remained in my mind: If I - or any other human pilot - had attempted to recover from a steep power-dive like that eagle did, I would have torn the wings off that Cessna and any other aircraft I've ever flown including a Pitts Aviat, which is one of the best single-engine piston aerobatic aircraft ever built.

Nobody does aerobatics like Mother Nature.

YD

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