Filling In Your A2K Profile/ Why Not?

I found filling in the profile description a breeze. No problemo!

What took me over a week of searching was finding a unique avatar to post. I must have tried a dozen, or so! I'm so indecisive and wasn't happy with any.

I finally gave that up and decided instead to make some nice lettering in Paint with my name. That way, it will always be unique! :wink:

....and then again, I might change my mind!

I tried to put my old avatar, the picture of a goshawk. It's one of the most beautiful birds you'll ever see. Anyway I failed miserably and I feel guilty asking someone to do it for me. I was given a link to accomplish it. Walked right in and fell on my face. Musta had a spell of bozoitis. When I couldn't get my old avatar back I lost interest.

I miss your old avatar, bob. Who gave you the link before?

Here ya go hawksmyth. Take this over to jpn and he'll size it for your avatar...oh, and make it blink

Great photo, Bob, and a great Reyn avatar...

what about this one?

I've other choices...

ooh tres bien Francis

Merci, Panz!

Well Region Philbin found my old me when I was bobsmyth. Suddenly found I couldn't log in anymore so took the name bobsmythhawk and came back but without my avatar. This hawk was and is special to me. I band hawks for U. S. Fish and Wildlife and this one was the prettiest I ever caught . This was on the thread for missing a2kers

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:36 pm Post: 1056528 - Reply with quoteBack to topReport this post to the moderators
howdy bobsmyth!

i went digging, and unearthed your avatar Smile

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here's bobsmyth's avatar

Thanks ehBeth. It was an amazing day that day. I spotted the hawk at tree level and jumped in the blind to pull on the string that is fastened to a vest on a pigeon we use as a lure. Immediately the hawk started in as I saw a second hawk appear in almost the same area. The goshawk went past looking over the situation and then swung around and dived for the bait. At the last instant I yanked the string pulling the pigeon out of his path and he hit the net. I dropped the string and ran out of the blind toward him. Just as I reached the net and grabbed his legs through the mesh the secong hawk hit the net about twenty feet away. I couldn't let the goshawk go and knowing my arms aren't twenty feet long I reached my walkie talkie to call my pal Mike who was on the other side of the same hill. When he answered I told him to get over here before the second hawk got away. He made record time and nabbed the second hawk a smaller accipiter (Coopers hawk). I took the picture while holding him at arms length. We banded the two and released them. Now that's a happy day.

sorry for my confusion...I wasn't privvy to the history...carry on!

Fabulous, isn't it!

Thanks Panzade. That was thoughtful of you. I appreciate your effort.

Thanks! So far, I have not seen anything similar on here....

This one was just a few feet away from me on my roof
ledge. I couldn't believe this huge bird is sitting right there
for me to capture. I live right in the city, but have a canyon
close by.

Eagle/hawk?

I don't really know cicerone.
Me city girl

Back when I lived in Venice (cal), we had a neighbor whose ficus tree became home to, oh, a hundred night herons. Poor woman... the circle of defecation was wide, wide. It was after the eucalyptus had been chopped down in Marina del Rey...

Anyway, for a while there we had the occasional sighting of a night heron in our yard, once on my small pond in a 36" concrete pot, and I did take photos. But they're not immediately at hand...

Hi Calamity Jane:

Nice shot. It looks like a Harris hawk but there's too much shadow to tell. Here's link to help you.

http://birding.about.com/library/fg/blfg-parabuteounicinctus.htm