>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
Federal firemen, who knew


Wrong again!!

USFA - United States Fire Administration

or, how about these guys?

The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho, is the physical facility that is home to the National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC), and the National Multi-Agency Coordination group (NMAC or MAC).

The center works closely with and is an arm of the National Fire and Aviation Executive Board (NFAEB), which provides unified guidance for fire agencies in the United States, and handbooks and guidelines to provide common procedures. It was created to implement the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy. The NFAEB has created the Federal Fire Policy Directives Task Group, which coordinates with state agencies in order to implement cooperative agreements.


But apparently GeesusFreak would rather have zero national help for wildland firefighting. I guess he'd like a citizen bucket brigade to drive out to devastating forest fires (like the one that's on it's 4th week here in Los Angeles) and douse the flames with bald eagle tears.


*edit: I almost forgot these guys:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Forest_Service#Fighting_fires

Nice! Glad to hear the Baldies are doing well up there. I just looked up Steller's Jay. That's a neat looking bird. I forgot to mention Red-Tailed hawk. I like this picture of the American Kestrel...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:American_Kestrel_on_the_hunt.jpg

Someone's gonna get eaten.

In reply to this comment by PostMortem:
I wasn't really interested in birds when I was younger but then I moved to Tokyo for 8 years where the only birds (and pretty much the only wildlife) were crows, sparrows, and pigeons. When I moved back to Canada, about a year ago, I suddenly found myself fascinated with nature and wildlife (I think it's a reaction to having none around for so long). So I've been taking a lot of nature walks and hikes and encountering a lot of beautiful and interesting looking birds, but unfortunately I usually don't know what their called.

The ones I do know the names of that I've seen around are:
- Bald Eagles, we have A LOT of these around here and I've seen quite a few juveniles this summer.
- Blue Heron
- American Kestrel
- Steller's Jay
- and some hummingbirds that feed at the flowers behind my place.


In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Although not officially a birder, i have seen the following in the area behind my house: Merganzers, Cormorants, Grackles, Kingfishers, Blue Heron and Bald Eagles. And Owls.

How 'bout you?

I wasn't really interested in birds when I was younger but then I moved to Tokyo for 8 years where the only birds (and pretty much the only wildlife) were crows, sparrows, and pigeons. When I moved back to Canada, about a year ago, I suddenly found myself fascinated with nature and wildlife (I think it's a reaction to having none around for so long). So I've been taking a lot of nature walks and hikes and encountering a lot of beautiful and interesting looking birds, but unfortunately I usually don't know what their called.

The ones I do know the names of that I've seen around are:
- Bald Eagles, we have A LOT of these around here and I've seen quite a few juveniles this summer.
- Blue Heron
- American Kestrel
- Steller's Jay
- and some hummingbirds that feed at the flowers behind my place.


In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Although not officially a birder, i have seen the following in the area behind my house: Merganzers, Cormorants, Grackles, Kingfishers, Blue Heron and Bald Eagles. And Owls.

How 'bout you?

Although not officially a birder, i have seen the following in the area behind my house: Merganzers, Cormorants, Grackles, Kingfishers, Blue Heron and Bald Eagles. And Owls.

How 'bout you?


In reply to this comment by PostMortem:
No Problem, I love birds.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Wow! Thanks for the triple click on my queue there, PostMortem!

Bald eagles, cute kids, gorgeous wife and a tray of fresh king crab at the end. That's gotta be the life.

Hey the majestic Bald Eagle, the great proud symbol of...what was it again?

I wanted to smack her. Feed the other ones!

You should change the title to: "Bald Eagle, feeding one of her chicks while others watch"

Nice video

CFR Candidate propaganda, and fekkin' mind-numbingly dull......Rhetorica Politica-

"absorbed in its world it's so hard to find us
it shapes our mind the most
maybe the mother of our nation
should remind us that we're sitting too close tooooooo..the Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeeding radiation....

T.V. is the stomping ground
for political candidates
where bears in the woods
are chased by grecian formula'd bald eagles
T.V. is mechanized politic's
remote control over the masses
co-sponsored by enironmentally safe gases
watch for the PBS special
it's the perpetuation of the two-party system
where image takes precedence over wisdom
where sound bite politics are served
to the fastfood culture
where straight teeth in your mouth
are more important than the words
that come out of it
race baiting is the way to get elected
Willie Horton or will he not get elected on...the goddamn tv

this was lame. but bald eagles are delicious!

So, it was a Canadian eagle visiting the other side of the lake, then! Shit, even I do this from time to time, you guys have really cheap liquor and smokes down there.



In reply to this comment by xxovercastxx:
>> ^therealblankman:
USA, USA? Probably filmed in Canada- aren't Bald Eagles extinct in most of the lower 48?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Distribution_H._leucocephalus.png

>> ^therealblankman:
USA, USA? Probably filmed in Canada- aren't Bald Eagles extinct in most of the lower 48?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Distribution_H._leucocephalus.png

>> ^therealblankman:
USA, USA? Probably filmed in Canada- aren't Bald Eagles extinct in most of the lower 48?


I see them all teh time drivin around.

USA, USA? Probably filmed in Canada- aren't Bald Eagles extinct in most of the lower 48?

Turkeys are cool as shit, dude-Guess you never raised one....I saw a bald eagle swoop down and nab a puffin in Seward, AK in 91'-poor puffy....

Owls definitely hunt by sound but not echo-location. That would require them to make sound, which is the opposite of what they do. Their wings have micro filaments on the trailing edges to smooth air flow and quiet their wing beats. Their hunting is more like using passive sonar then active sonar that echo-location implies. Also in general their eye sight at night is no better than humans. Great Horned Owls like those on the show have talons as large as man-fists and the killing power of a bald eagle. They've been known to eat cats and kill foxes.

Cool to see that owl respond to her like that. Glad it didn't try to mount her.