well..Owls  hunt rodents too?.. they may go for a cat if they feel like Chinese ?

sometimes owls will attack cats and even small dogs.  they are hunting birds like Eagles and Hawks, just more night and low light oriented

All birds of prey have their unique styles; Kestrels hover and catch rodent, Falcons catch birds in mid air and Red Kites wait until it's been hit by a car :D

we had a Cat, my yuounger  daughter had to heal.. that had   deep talon marks   in it  hind  quarters... he lived  a few years  after that.

  there was  an old factory  one  my route that  used to make  'woman's  Foundations"  and a Guy bought the  building  to sell  scrap and stuff from... there  where  scores of Pigeons  that  hung aroudn there... I saw  hawks That three of them out   over  the years,, and   hit a rabbit  about 15 yards in front of  me , and  fly off with it.

not to mess  witht eh RP...so..

 Roy and Teela   just add 'flex'  to your Tunnel  RP..
  Shadow's   will be 'real timne"

I live across the road from a RAF base so I get to see their hawk on a semi-regular basis (they use it to chase pigeons out of hangars etc) and I used to sometimes see Red Kites on my way to work as well as Kestrels.

feeling better Teela?

Still in some pain but manageable with Paracetamol. I'm sleeping a lot as I work on increasing my activity levels but all in all I'm doing better. :)

Yeah, the reason I hope the owls aren't hunting cats is because I know there are a few half-grown kittens running around (I rescued one that had fallen in a trash can looking for food and couldn't get back out).  I saw a couple of them out on the midway a few nights ago...wasn't sure at first if they were cats or rats, because they're still young enough to have pretty short legs, wasn't until I got closer that I could see they were kittens.  Sad as it is to say, they were the size of a good meal for a large owl, although I think the owl would go for smaller prey, first.

Awww. Poor babies! I brought a momma cat and her 5 babies inside until they get old enough to take to the no kill shelter. But they are about five weeks old now, and are SO adorable. They are to the scamper and hop hop stage, and everything attracts their little grey (haven't turned yellow yet) eyes. They are all heart, eyes, and purrs.

Yeah...these aren't about to let me get within five feet of them.  The kittens are pretty adorable (long-haired, all black), and if it turns into a really cold winter, I might start leaving a bowl full of cat food outside the building where I work when I leave each day.  (That might not be a bad idea, anyway...the racoons will start stealing it after a while, though...but maybe that'll make it easier to lure them into traps.  Unlike the cats, those suckers are destructive beasties...)

I don't think anyone at the park has thought about it, but we should get the feral cats fixed before we're swarmed with them...which is another good reason to set out food and get them a little accustomed to people...

Will catch up on posts in a few hours here, currently out of town and reception here is bad

In reply to Kira Ambermoon (msg # 964):

Looking forward to it Kira

Rip to Stan Lee who passed away at the age on 95, he will be missed.

 I mentioned this  esle where?.. I learned to red, from Comic  books..back in the day 'trading comics' was a big thing...

   I started  with  DC.. but it wasn't near as much  Fun as MArvel ( though I did  like DC's  war comics).

   I teacher in 4   grade  was surprised  by my vocabulary,  and I said  a read lot.. she was crushed when I said .'marvel comics'.  I brought   a SGT  fury  and  his Howling commandos/s ( the 'REAL" Sgt Fury )...and showed her the 'editor  nots Stan lee woudl put in..most of them were  real-life  information of the history..some where 'fun' backround'

 and I showed her   Fantastic  four, with editor  notes  on some science  factor that enerted into the   story line.


 Light hearted   enough to  have  fun, deep enough to have meaning, whether it was  the characters fighting thier own 'hidden war'.. or merely dealing with everyday stuff.. I was lucky enough to  have started into comics.. when he was in his hay day

If any of us are still around in, say, 200 years, it would be fascinating to see how they speak of Stan Lee.  Personally, I'm sure that grad students in literature, sociology, and anthropology will all be writing dissertations about the ever-widening circles of his influence on 20th Century culture within my lifetime.  He, like Gene Roddenberry, elevated social criticism into an art form, using a veneer of fiction while illustrating the follies of our society...at a time when blatant racism was the norm, he preached tolerance andacceptance of those who are different from us...and presented metaphorical examples of what can go wrong when we shun or oppress the 'others' in our society.  The man was brilliant, and he laid out a modetn mythology for us that rivals any from history for its completeness and applicability to our culture.  The X-Men taught us to not only accept the differences in others, it showed us how differences can become strengths, and how disparate personalities, working in a united effort, can achieve more than the sum of their individual efforts.  Captain America taught us moral fortitude, standing fast and holding the line when the odds seemed incoprehensibly high.  Iron Man taught us that, no matter how flawed we may be, we can choose to put it behind us and become heroic.  Dozens, if not hundreds of characters, all giving us encouragement to be better than we are, or showing us what happens if we give up on that effort and let our inner darkness consume us.

Thanks, Stan.  Here's hoping we live up to the potential you saw in all of us.

Well said, Roy. The best art is that which can not only entertain but shine a light on our follies and foibles and tell us 'You can be better than this' which is certainly what Mr. Lee did. May he Rest in Peace.

Coming up on 80K!!

Around 5k more but yes still 80k is a sweet milestone

75k is huge!

I did a 'game search.. using    "sci fi"..and 'Posts'.. we are #2 behind   one other  game..Mkaes  me proud of you guys , and the game!

We saw 70k, can't wait to see 100k.  how far are we behind the other game?  How long has it been out?

the other game is called " tales of  2 . New Beginings".. I checked some of the note  posts. the  oldest one showing is  July 6, 2009

 Its sort of a   RP  center, more then a game, where  folks  pair up  and write?.. I dunno. It never   intrigued me enough to  check it out , unlit just now.

they have 95551 posts. and according to  that  search,some one posted  today, so it   must be very active ( says Captain Obvious)

 That would make us the  top 'purebred ' space game though, since we are all in the same world, and storyline.

That's good

Well over 5 years that much i know for sure.