OK, did you have to Google the term for a grouping of owls?
Once this is in the rear view mirror, take a trip to the Carolina Raptor Center in Huntersville. It’s a rehab center for injured and orphaned raptors.
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OK, did you have to Google the term for a grouping of owls?
Once this is in the rear view mirror, take a trip to the Carolina Raptor Center in Huntersville. It’s a rehab center for injured and orphaned raptors.
Yeah ... there's a fair number of them about these days. Used to just see them up around Falls Lake and in Cary, but they've expanded their territory. It's so cool seeing them down here. When you go to Alaska the doggone eagles are sitting on lamp posts and stop signs like freaking cardinals do around NC ... it's SO weird when you're only used to seeing like one a year.
HockeyPat
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No, sadly that's the kind of thing I think is important to know.
- Apes: a shrewdness
- Badgers: a cete
- Bats: a colony, cloud or camp
- Bears: a sloth or sleuth
- Bees: a swarm
- Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy
- Camels: a caravan
- Cats: a clowder or glaring; Kittens: a litter or kindle; Wild cats: a destruction
- Cobras: a quiver
- Crocodiles: a bask
- Crows: a murder
- Dogs: a pack; Puppies: a litter
- Donkeys: a drove
- Eagles: a convocation
- Elephants: a parade
- Elk: a gang or a herd
- Falcons: a cast
- Ferrets: a business
- Fish: a school
- Flamingos: a stand
- Foxes: a skulk or leash
- Frogs: an army
- Geese: a gaggle
- Giraffes: a tower
- Gorillas: a band
- Hippopotami: a bloat
- Hyenas: a cackle
- Jaguars: a shadow
- Jellyfish: a smack
- Kangaroos: a troop or mob
- Lemurs: a conspiracy
- Leopards: a leap
- Lions: a pride
- Moles: a labor
- Monkeys: a barrel or troop
- Mules: a pack
- Otters: a family
- Oxen: a team or yoke
- Owls: a parliament
- Parrots: a pandemonium
- Pigs: a drift or drove (younger pigs), or a sounder or team (older pigs)
- Porcupines: a prickle
- Rabbits: a herd
- Rats: a colony
- Ravens: an unkindness
- Rhinoceroses: a crash
- Shark: a shiver
- Skunk: a stench
- Snakes: a nest
- Squirrels: a dray or scurry
- Stingrays: a fever
- Swans: a bevy or game (if in flight: a wedge)
- Tigers: an ambush or streak
- Toads: a knot
- Turkeys: a gang or rafter
- Turtles: a bale or nest
- Weasels: a colony, gang or pack
- Whales: a pod, school, or gam
- Wolves: a pack
- Zebras: a zeal
I have been to the Carolina Raptor Center in Huntersville! I went with a friend who worked for WGHP FOX8 as an ENG (Electronic News Gatherer). Got all kinds of access. Awesome place, give them some cash!
Yep, the few nesting pairs we had even a few years ago were at Falls and Jordan Lakes.
Every evening on a certain stretch of Gresham Lake Rd you can see the same thing.
Paulie Walnuts
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Shelley lake and Lake Crabtree have some bald eagles too.
dwind
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last night
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LJG
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Do owls have a funkdelic also?
LJG
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Cool. Sailing on dwind
LJG
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Buddy of mine and I were leaving the Black Canyon in 1994 and while driving out saw a commotion in the brush, which was a golden eagle getting off the ground and airborne paralleling our car about 50' to the right. Thing must have had a 6' wingspan. Was an unforgettable site.
The bloodletting at Sports Illustrated has picked up again. In the last couple of days, I’ve seen tweets from Sarah Kwak, Kalyn Kahler (who worked on the Monday Morning Quarterback subsite) and Chris Ballard all announcing that they were let go. The Gannett newspaper chain announced unpaid newsroom furloughs of 1 week per month in April, May and June for anyone making more than $38k
Paulie Walnuts
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I just noticed recently that SI print version is now monthly instead of weekly. That started this year , they cut the number of issues by around 75%.
The financial repercussions of this pandemic are going to go ahead and kill off a lot of companies and industries that were hanging on by a shoestring beforehand. Print media is low hanging fruit for the reaper. Most of those outfits were uncomfortably leveraged to begin with. Take away a huge portion of what remaining revenues they have left for a month or two and ... boom. It's too much to handle. Economic Darwinism.
I thought it was bi-weekly, if it’s monthly, why bother anymore? My father was a charter subscriber and still has the first issue laying around his house somewhere. I started subscribing in college, with the ridiculous college discounts for a school year subscription and then subscribed for most of the first 25 years after graduation. I gave them one last shot a few years ago and it had become so ridiculously thin, it wasn’t worth it anymore. The only benefit was getting access to their premium web content.
Yeah ... SI still has some value thanks to individual reporters who still lead in their field, but as a general sports publication they've been toast for a while. Maybe they'd be better off going the Life magazine route and just publishing special editions covering specific topics.
HurryCanes
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Sadly, I know very few reporters associated with SI these days. I can remember the days of my youth, waiting by the mailbox for SI. For better or worse, pretty much keep an eye on the Athletic and that's about it these days. That and twitter have pretty much put the hammer on SI.
The list if pretty much down to Grant Wahl for me. He's their lead soccer guy.