Undocumented Alien
Hi Y'all,
On a recent visit to the wetlands I saw a sight that would have terrified Tom Tancedo, Jan Brewer, and Lou Dobbs..... an undocumented bird!!!!
The bird in subject is the crested cara cara, the national bird of Mexico (aka - The Mexican Eagle).
We had a pair of cara caras before and they were both banded. The female however was injured, went into rehab but couldn't be released back into the wild. The male mourned his loss for about two seconds and found a new mate, an unbanded female cara cara.
This undocumented alien has no shame. Here she is assaulting a native born, red blooded USA turtle.
having no shame after her attack she sits on a fence and crows
As a side note. Under new proposed legislation by our state bozos in Tallahassee all of these photos would be possible felonies as the Duda Ranch is the background for the captures.
http://www.nslphotographyblog.com/2011/03/florida-photography-new-law-gone-mad.html
On a recent visit to the wetlands I saw a sight that would have terrified Tom Tancedo, Jan Brewer, and Lou Dobbs..... an undocumented bird!!!!
The bird in subject is the crested cara cara, the national bird of Mexico (aka - The Mexican Eagle).
We had a pair of cara caras before and they were both banded. The female however was injured, went into rehab but couldn't be released back into the wild. The male mourned his loss for about two seconds and found a new mate, an unbanded female cara cara.
This undocumented alien has no shame. Here she is assaulting a native born, red blooded USA turtle.
having no shame after her attack she sits on a fence and crows
As a side note. Under new proposed legislation by our state bozos in Tallahassee all of these photos would be possible felonies as the Duda Ranch is the background for the captures.
http://www.nslphotographyblog.com/2011/03/florida-photography-new-law-gone-mad.html
Harry
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But in all seriousness, there's not a snowball's chance in hell this will go anywhere. It's like all the weird bills that Arizona floats that supersede federal laws. It's all political posturing.
I'd put that undocumented alien to work, Harry. :giggle
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I've tried putting them to work but they are just impossible. They won't pose for anything less than 3 turtles.
As for that proposed legislation's chance's don't bet against it. We have the best state legislaure money can buy and the growers and farms have put their $ down. A few years back a van carrying farm workers crashed and killed a bunch of the workers. They would have survived but the van didn't have seat belts.
So they prepared a bill requiring those vans to have seat belts and holding the van contractor and the farm responsible. Sounds like a no brainer? The bill was held up for 2 years because one senator objected. Finally they amended the bill so that the farm owner would not be responsible and it passed. It turned out that the farm owner involved in the crash that led to the legislation was a close friend and large campaign contributer to the senator who delayed the bill for those two years.
I think they will amend that proposed law to remove the part about pictures from public land. Once that's done it probably will pass.
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Great shots and story.
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Well since the subject of politics has been broached, why not add religion? Any idea who this guy worships?
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Thanks Stephen, the cara caras have been regulars at the wetlands through last year. However the Duda's started clearing trees from their farmland surrounding the wetlands last year preparing for a new housing development. Since then the caracaras have been making iregular appearances.
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Really nice.
Thanks Pam, the caracaras in the uS are most often found around the Space Coast and S. Floirda, Louisiana and Texas.
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Ima move to Flarrida where they know how to look out fer are rites.<INSERT here Brokovitch? ?Erin to link>
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Sorry to hear about that development. That is too bad.
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The law is aimed mainly at PETA who have caused a few stirs with film of animal mistreatment on the farms.
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Yeah, the video in Food Inc of the workers shoving around the "downer cows" with a forklift was pretty effective at horrifying people.
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
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The caracaras are mainly carrion eaters so I would guess that would place them in the pagan camp.
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Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
Well as a heathen I really don't care. :ivar
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That would be the "I just finished my meal, now where's my man?" call.
Thanks Jack.
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Thanks Dennis.
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Don't be silly Mike, caracara's just take what they want. They don't ask anybody for anything. If you don't believe me, just ask that turtle.
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Thanks Glenn, I'm sorry they didn't make an appearance for you too. They just don't come around as regularly as they used to. :cry
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Thanks Ric, I could have gone ofr the spit shot but I was trying to keep the series "clean".
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It sure is and its getting worse. For the next four years at least environmental issues will be dead last priority wise for our "leaders" in Tallahassee. The only good nes is that they are backing off on the proposal to build golf courses in Florida's state parks.
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The thought of not being able to take photos of a farm as I am driving by seemed insane to me so I went to the source and checked out the senator's site. I think the operative word here is entering. I copied this from his site - "Farms; Prohibits a person from entering onto a farm and making any audio record, photograph, or video record at the farm without the owner's written consent. Provides exceptions. Provides definitions. Provides penalties." Seems acceptable to me.
It may be acceptable to you but we already have a law against trespass which covers it. Making it a first degree felony is a tad over the top. Its merely pandering to a well funded special interest group (the growers).
If one goes to the Fla. state senate's web site and looks at part two of the good senator's legislation it reads:
" (2) A person who photographs, video records, or otherwise
17 produces images or pictorial records, digital or otherwise, at
18 or of a farm or other property where legitimate agriculture
19 operations are being conducted without the written consent of
20 the owner, or an authorized representative of the owner, commits
21 a felony of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.
22 775.082, s.775.083, or s.775.084, Florida Statutes.
Part 2 says noting about entering the property and would cover images taken from public land.
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She was taking a break from posing. I am sorry that you missed her Jeff.
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