2012 SOUTH BEND~Guinevere & Zephyr

kittenface · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:47 pm

I'll give you a nice big icecream cone & flowers

gigi · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:08 pm

I want my ice cream cone too for those early morning patrols in Indy! :biggrin:

SusanE · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:10 pm

Here you go, sbwatcher: :flowers

gigi · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:04 pm

I'll take a beer too as long as it is a Spaten Opitmator!

kittenface · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:10 pm

Here you go gigi

but I want a beer & I don't care what kind it is as long as its cold

gigi · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:24 pm

that is why I like the Optimator. It doesn't have to be iced cold for me like the lighter beers. :toast

sbwatcher · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:10 pm

Yesterday: I gets up and out the door by 5:35 a.m., thinkin' that I'ze gonna see a FALCON today !! And I gets there at aroun 5:45 and there is no falcons !! :gaah:

And that night, no falcons either. I might have left right before they came because i had to go to work.
And I thought, what's up with me, am I becoming a FALCON STALKER???

And then, this morning, I saw.... a FALCON on the corner of the building. :ohyes:

She sat for just a couple minutes, then flew off for the day.

Oh, and guys, it is really sweet of you to worry about me being downtown, but there are not that many people in this part of nighttime downtown South Bend, (besides security guards and cops), and mornings pretty much no one is down there at all before 6 a.m., only some traffic passing through, and some pigeons and ........ FALCONS !! :woohoo:

And guys, thanks also for the beers and goodies :eat

And, not that I have any spare time, but what are some nests that are good to watch on-line right now? (Raptor and non-raptor suggestions welcome.)

SusanE · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:55 pm

sbwatcher, I enjoyed your post . . . as usual. You obviously have a great sense of humor.

I'm sure others will have suggestions for cams to watch, but one I can recommend is the falcon nest at Elk River, MN -- Great River Energy Plant.

Link to section on BCAW:

Link to cam:

Link to cam in WMP:

kittenface · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2012 5:00 pm

SusanE wrote:

sbwatcher, I enjoyed your post . . . as usual. You obviously have a great sense of humor.

I'm sure others will have suggestions for cams to watch, but one I can recommend is the falcon nest at Elk River, MN -- Great River Energy Plant.

Link to section on BCAW:

Link to cam:

Link to cam in WMP:

Oh Susan you had the same thought I did about Elk
also there is Beauty at Rochester
cam link

link to the topic here at BCAW

SusanE · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2012 7:15 pm

kittenface is right about the Rochester cam being a good one.
sbwatcher, I came up with a couple more nests that may interest you. (You will be sorry you asked. :teehee:

)

Estonia Ospreys - I haven't watched this one, but heard it was a good cam. They are 7 hrs ahead of us.
Cam link:

Info about nest:

BCAW topic link:

Genesee (Alberta) falcons - This is a 5 sec refresh cam with no audio, but the view and color are really good. They are 2 hrs behind us.
Cam link:

BCAW topic link:

There are lots of other great cams, but so many are empty right now.

sbwatcher · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:31 am

Oh my gosh, all these birds, cams and stories are so interesting, how the heck do you guys get anything done in the real world?!?!?! :girlcrazy:

And Rochester ! :suchdrama:

A story wilder than any screenwriter could make!

I could spend all day and night watching these cams ......... But ........
I'm gonna hafta make a resolution to put time into watching the South Bend girls, so that I can report here because for now I am
the only
SOUTH BEND WATCHER

SusanE · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:40 am

sbwatcher wrote:

. . . how the heck do you guys get anything done in the real world?!?!?! :girlcrazy:

We don't.

sbwatcher · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:53 am

Going home at 2:10 a.m. , I stopped downtown and saw a bird perched on the corner of the County-City Building, her back to me, apparently sleeping. I figure it's either Abigail, possibly Guinevere, or one of the idiots of pigeondom. (There was no one on the SB cam when I checked last night at 1:30. )

*** HUMOROUS story follows. No Lives were Endangered ! ****

Oh, and there was some guy pointing a gun at me too, with three other dudes, but they didn't say anything to me, so I just went home, figuring that maybe I would investigate in the morning.
So I went back this morning, and the guy and the other dudes are still there, all with weapons, not moving, and I figure they belong together because they are all about 7 1/2 feet tall, and all of them are GREEN. They are 107 years old. How do I know this ? Because it says so on a plaque by where they are standing. Apparently these guys are part of a Civil War Monument from 1905. They just stand there with weapons. So I guess our peregrines are possibly the most dangerous thing downtown during non-peak hours.

SB WATCHER

kittenface · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:56 am

OMG your terrible sbwatcher you scared the shi* out of me :teehee:

gigi · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:02 pm

My heart dropped when you wrote about the guns pointing at you. YIKES!!!

Yes, it is hard to get things done with all the cams. We appreciate your boots on the ground reports in South Bend!! Thanks!

kittenface · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:05 pm

Oh yes we do appreciate you very much sbwatcher without you we would be in the dark it is great
I just wish there were more people to be out there with you, Lets get the plane fueled up and head out everyone :biggrin:

Who had the plane now?

sbwatcher · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:15 pm

Whoa, whoa, you all are gonna fire up a propeller plane :girlhot:

and come out here? I must give you fair warning that this town is so small that
an airplane landing is gonna scare and agitate some folks and they might call the local police or National Guard Reserve or maybe just sic some local falcons and Cooper's hawks on you. Then again, you all might enjoy the falcons and Cooper's hawks.

Why we barely have one traffic light, and we can't afford our own burglars we have to import them from Gary and Chicago. IF you don't believe me, go check out wikipedia about South Bend and our population of 186. :teehee:

The SB Watcher's Cat says: Don't believe her. She is only serious about me and those falcons she is so devoted to.

SB Watcher

gigi · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:42 pm

I have been to South Bend many times since hubby graduated from Notre Dame. Small town, but has grown and gotten more sophisticated over the years. Although most of our visits to your fair city have focused around football, we occasionally wander [like a peregrine] into the downtown area.

As far as the airport, I know there is one and this is how I will get there:

Beth · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:13 pm

You guys are toooo funny...
Thanks sbwatcher-we appreciate your reports!
Be careful tho -am and pm- (!)
Here is a helper for your late night viewing :)

sbwatcher · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:35 pm

A rushed reply before I go off-line for a day or two. Gigi, you are correct, we do have an airport. It's also a bus and train station all in one.
I'm laughing at your little flying person. :sunrolleyes:

South Bend is actually quite a bit bigger than I said it was, but our downtown is tiny compared to that of Indianapolis.

Beth, thanks for the taco, I'm sure it's better than anything the downtown Taco Bell dishes out. And I can use the big spicy pepper to disable any bad guys. And yes, we do have bad guys here, but they are generally not in the downtown area at night because all the action is over on the West side, the Southeast and ......... Elkhart, Indiana. (Well, parts of Elkhart.) Places I don't go at night.
Carly, thnx for the article link. See you guys in a day or two. Enjoy all those cams !!

SB Watcher

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