Saturday, December 5, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
See my new Blog site on the National Eagle Center website!
http://www.nationaleaglecenter.com/ is my blogging home! Check out all my traveling adventures with the National Eagle Center!
Monday, September 28, 2009
Traveling in Wisconsin
What a busy weekend! I'm still going through photos of my honor guard in Danbury Wisconsin this weekend! Columbia, my mews buddy, traveled to the Apostle Islands to Annishanabe Gathering and Pow wow! She just loved the islands and met many wonderful people from the communities of Lac Courte Oreilles, Red Cliff, St Croix, Bad River, Mole Lake, and Lac du Flambeau. She was in the honor guard of the Grand Entry in the Pow wow! She said the cool, fresh air made her very hungry so she ate like a gourging juvenile eagle. She ended up eating over 2lbs of rabbit meat! wow!
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Something's fishy about this egg!
How come this egg is so good at tennnis?
http://nationaleaglecenter.net/NEC-games/eagle-pong/eagle-pong.html
Here is a live link to Wack-a-Eagle! I've never heard of eagles in holes! Maybe in golf!
http://nationaleaglecenter.net/NEC-games/eagle-pop/eagle-pop.html
http://nationaleaglecenter.net/NEC-games/eagle-pong/eagle-pong.html
Here is a live link to Wack-a-Eagle! I've never heard of eagles in holes! Maybe in golf!
http://nationaleaglecenter.net/NEC-games/eagle-pop/eagle-pop.html
Spend a Night in the Nest with me at the National Eagle Center
Night in the Nest Camp
The National Eagle Center invites 3rd-5th graders to spend a Night in the Nest this fall.
Come experience life through the eyes of a bald eagle- playing games, making friends, and meeting the center's five resident birds: Harriet, Angel, Columbia, Donald, and Was'aka. Campers will discover how an eagle captures and eats its food through games and a live feeding session. They will learn about its nest by creating one of their own to bring home, and participate in a scavenger hunt to find out when and why eagles migrate, and why so many can be found in Wabasha during one particular season of the year. A relay race will test their new knowledge and give them a chance to try their hand at the basics of falconry: knot tying and lifting the weight of an eagle. Every camper will receive a Night in the Nest t-shirt and have his/her picture taken with an eagle, to take home and treasure for years to come. $45 Members $50 Non-members
5pm to 9am, with an evening snack and bagel breakfast provided.
Camp sessions:
Saturday, October 10th- Sunday, October 11th
Saturday, October 24th- Sunday, October 25th
Location: The National Eagle Center, 50 Pembroke Ave, Wabasha MN. 55981
http://www.nationaleaglecenter.org/
Email: bridget@nationaleaglecenter.org
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Riverboat Days Parade Today at 6:00PM in Wabasha!
Today my ever ready team of volunteers and staff will be accompanying me in the Riverboat Days Parade! Look for me at the beginning of the parade right behind the American Legion And VFW color guards! So far the sky is looking clear and the temperature should be perfect!
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Today is MNSTEP Program Day!
I'm playing host to 26 biology teachers from around the state of Minnesota participating in the MNSTEP program! They are learning about my biology and physiology! What great students!
Monday, July 20, 2009
The Eagle Has Landed! 40 years ago Today!
From NASA July 20th 2009
July 1969. It's a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy's challenge to put a man on the moon before the decade is out. It is only seven months since NASA's made a bold decision to send Apollo 8 all the way to the moon on the first manned flight of the massive Saturn V rocket. Now, on the morning of July 16, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins sit atop another Saturn V at Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The three-stage 363-foot rocket will use its 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel them into space and into history. At 9:32 a.m. EDT, the engines fire and Apollo 11 clears the tower. About 12 minutes later, the crew is in Earth orbit. (› Play Audio)After one and a half orbits, Apollo 11 gets a "go" for what mission controllers call "Translunar Injection" -- in other words, it's time to head for the moon.
Three days later the crew is in lunar orbit. A day after that, Armstrong and Aldrin climb into the lunar module Eagle and begin the descent, while Collins orbits in the command module Columbia. (› View Flash Feature)Collins later writes that Eagle is "the weirdest looking contraption I have ever seen in the sky," but it will prove its worth.When it comes time to set Eagle down in the Sea of Tranquility, Armstrong improvises, manually piloting the ship past an area littered with boulders. During the final seconds of descent, Eagle's computer is sounding alarms.It turns out to be a simple case of the computer trying to do too many things at once, but as Aldrin will later point out, "unfortunately it came up when we did not want to be trying to solve these particular problems."When the lunar module lands at 4:18 p.m EDT, only 30 seconds of fuel remain. Armstrong radios "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Mission control erupts in celebration as the tension breaks, and a controller tells the crew "You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue, we're breathing again." (› Play Audio)
Armstrong will later confirm that landing was his biggest concern, saying "the unknowns were rampant," and "there were just a thousand things to worry about."At 10:56 p.m. EDT Armstrong is ready to plant the first human foot on another world. With more than half a billion people watching on television, he climbs down the ladder and proclaims: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." (› Play Audio)Aldrin joins him shortly, and offers a simple but powerful description of the lunar surface: "magnificent desolation." They explore the surface for two and a half hours, collecting samples and taking photographs. They leave behind an American flag, a patch honoring the fallen Apollo 1 crew, and a plaque on one of Eagle's legs. It reads, "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind."
Armstrong and Aldrin blast off and dock with Collins in Columbia. Collins later says that "for the first time," he "really felt that we were going to carry this thing off." The crew splashes down off Hawaii on July 24. Kennedy's challenge has been met. Men from Earth have walked on the moon and returned safely home.In an interview years later, Armstrong praises the "hundreds of thousands" of people behind the project. "Every guy that's setting up the tests, cranking the torque wrench, and so on, is saying, man or woman, 'If anything goes wrong here, it's not going to be my fault.'" (› Read 2001 Interview, 172 Kb PDF)In a post-flight press conference, Armstrong calls the flight "a beginning of a new age," while Collins talks about future journeys to Mars. Over the next three and a half years, 10 astronauts will follow in their footsteps. Gene Cernan, commander of the last Apollo mission leaves the lunar surface with these words: "We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind." The bootprints of Apollo are waiting for company.
I wanted to thank the Americans who were apart of those famous words!
"The Eagle Has Landed"
Apollo 11's 40th Anniversary
On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11, humanity's first landing on the moon, Apollo 11 crew members, Buzz Aldrin, left, Michael Collins, second from left, Neil Armstrong and NASA Mission Control creator and former NASA Johnson Space Center director Chris Kraft, right, gathered at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, Sunday, July 19, 2009. The four were speakers at the Museum's 2009 John H. Glenn lecture in space history.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
July 20 marks the 40th anniversary of man landing on the moon
Published 07/16/2009 - 10:48 p.m. CST From the Record Orange Co. TX
The human condition leaves each person in a perpetual quandary – fight or flight it’s called. For one brave group of men, July of 1969 gave the opportunity to experience both.
In the pre-dawning heat of the Cold War, the race into space had culminated with the United States and the Soviet Union both eager to set foot on the moon. With tensions high after Yuri Gagarin’s first manned spaceflight in 1961, NASA revved up their efforts to compete in the Space Race.
A crew of men who were all well seasoned military pilots gathered the courage to board NASA’s fifth manned flight into space. The Apollo space missions began as unmanned attempts to test capabilities to reach the moon. This included the Apollo 4 that tested the Saturn V booster in November of 1967. The mission was highly successful. After the trials of successful orbiting and inclusion on Lunar Modules through missions 8-10, NASA was prepared to take the steps to touchdown on the lunar surface. The more highly seasoned aviation veteran on the Apollo 11 crew was Neil Armstrong. He had flown 78 combat missions over Korea as a Navy fighter pilot and joined the NASA program as a civilian test pilot before being accepted into the astronaut corps in 1962. On the moon landing mission, Armstrong was accompanied by Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Aldrin was also a fighter jet pilot in the Korean War and went on to earn a doctorate degree in astronautics from MIT before he joined the astronaut corps in 1963. While Armstrong and Aldrin went in the lunar module Eagle to the moon’s surface, command module Columbia pilot Collins remained in orbit. Collins was a graduate from West Point and a peacetime flier assigned to Europe.
The Apollo 11 mission ran from July 16-24 which included the first steps onto the moon’s surface on July 20. The lunar module was named Eagle after the bald eagle, the national bird of the United States, that was located on its insignia. The command module received the traditional feminine name Columbia that had been used to represent the United States in poetry and song for many years.
The Saturn V rocket launched Apollo 11 from the Kennedy Space Center on July 16 and within 12 minutes it was in orbit around the Earth. After making only one and a half orbits, a third-stage engine sent the craft into a trajectory toward the Moon. After separating from the last Saturn V stage, the command module docked with the lunar module in approximately 30 minutes. The three man crew reached lunar orbit after firing the service propulsion engine on July 19.
When the Eagle separated from command module Columbia, it was inspected for damage by astronaut Collins and okayed to proceed.
Ground simulations had not prepared Armstrong and Aldrin for the extreme amount of information needing to be processed during an actual landing. As the descent began, they found that they were passing predetermined landmarks at a faster rate. They calculated that they were “coming in long” and would miss the projected landing site target by miles to the west. There had been unforeseen computer data interruptions during information processing that lead to an overload and caused the modules computer to be unable to keep up with tasks in real time. Final landing was made in what was later determined to be “West Crater” – a boulder-strewn space located in the western part of the originally planned landing area.
After these first few tense moments, Aldrin piloted the Eagle pod to the surface and Armstrong contacted Earth with the famous phrase, “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” Then after an acknowledgement from the relieved group at Mission Control, preparations were made for the first Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA). Though it was not a widely known plan and was not revealed publicly for many years, Armstrong took Communion privately from Aldrin who was an elder at the Webster Presbyterian Church in Webster, Texas.
Despite some technical and weather difficulties on television transmission, ghostly black and white images from the first EVA were received and broadcast to nearly 600 million viewers on Earth. The images recorded using a slow-scan television device were thought for many years to be lost, but it is reported that by June 26 of this year they had been found. The surface of the Moon was described as being covered in a fine and almost powder-like dust as Armstrong stepped from the Eagle’s landing footpad and into the annals of history. He famously described the experience by saying, “One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Though the recordings are not of a consistent quality, there is a slight discrepancy between the phrase that has been repeated through the years and what Armstrong claims he actually said - the inclusion of the ‘a man’ instead of ‘man.’
Aldrin joined Armstrong on the surface and tested their ability to move in the Moon’s gravity which is only one-sixth of Earth’s.
These men had helped America achieve President Kennedy’s goal of reaching the moon and after planting the U.S. flag on the lunar surface, they spoke with President Richard Nixon through a telephone-radio transmission. Samples were collected and during a two and a half hour stay on the surface the mission left behind symbols of America, peace and a message disk with goodwill statements from leaders throughout the world. As the 40-year-anniversary of this historic United States event looms on the horizon, each person with a fascination for space exploration and all that are old enough to remember are asked to take the time to recall where they were when history was written in the stars.
"The Eagle Has Landed"
Apollo 11's 40th Anniversary
On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11, humanity's first landing on the moon, Apollo 11 crew members, Buzz Aldrin, left, Michael Collins, second from left, Neil Armstrong and NASA Mission Control creator and former NASA Johnson Space Center director Chris Kraft, right, gathered at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, Sunday, July 19, 2009. The four were speakers at the Museum's 2009 John H. Glenn lecture in space history.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
July 20 marks the 40th anniversary of man landing on the moon
Published 07/16/2009 - 10:48 p.m. CST From the Record Orange Co. TX
The human condition leaves each person in a perpetual quandary – fight or flight it’s called. For one brave group of men, July of 1969 gave the opportunity to experience both.
In the pre-dawning heat of the Cold War, the race into space had culminated with the United States and the Soviet Union both eager to set foot on the moon. With tensions high after Yuri Gagarin’s first manned spaceflight in 1961, NASA revved up their efforts to compete in the Space Race.
A crew of men who were all well seasoned military pilots gathered the courage to board NASA’s fifth manned flight into space. The Apollo space missions began as unmanned attempts to test capabilities to reach the moon. This included the Apollo 4 that tested the Saturn V booster in November of 1967. The mission was highly successful. After the trials of successful orbiting and inclusion on Lunar Modules through missions 8-10, NASA was prepared to take the steps to touchdown on the lunar surface. The more highly seasoned aviation veteran on the Apollo 11 crew was Neil Armstrong. He had flown 78 combat missions over Korea as a Navy fighter pilot and joined the NASA program as a civilian test pilot before being accepted into the astronaut corps in 1962. On the moon landing mission, Armstrong was accompanied by Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Aldrin was also a fighter jet pilot in the Korean War and went on to earn a doctorate degree in astronautics from MIT before he joined the astronaut corps in 1963. While Armstrong and Aldrin went in the lunar module Eagle to the moon’s surface, command module Columbia pilot Collins remained in orbit. Collins was a graduate from West Point and a peacetime flier assigned to Europe.
The Apollo 11 mission ran from July 16-24 which included the first steps onto the moon’s surface on July 20. The lunar module was named Eagle after the bald eagle, the national bird of the United States, that was located on its insignia. The command module received the traditional feminine name Columbia that had been used to represent the United States in poetry and song for many years.
The Saturn V rocket launched Apollo 11 from the Kennedy Space Center on July 16 and within 12 minutes it was in orbit around the Earth. After making only one and a half orbits, a third-stage engine sent the craft into a trajectory toward the Moon. After separating from the last Saturn V stage, the command module docked with the lunar module in approximately 30 minutes. The three man crew reached lunar orbit after firing the service propulsion engine on July 19.
When the Eagle separated from command module Columbia, it was inspected for damage by astronaut Collins and okayed to proceed.
Ground simulations had not prepared Armstrong and Aldrin for the extreme amount of information needing to be processed during an actual landing. As the descent began, they found that they were passing predetermined landmarks at a faster rate. They calculated that they were “coming in long” and would miss the projected landing site target by miles to the west. There had been unforeseen computer data interruptions during information processing that lead to an overload and caused the modules computer to be unable to keep up with tasks in real time. Final landing was made in what was later determined to be “West Crater” – a boulder-strewn space located in the western part of the originally planned landing area.
After these first few tense moments, Aldrin piloted the Eagle pod to the surface and Armstrong contacted Earth with the famous phrase, “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” Then after an acknowledgement from the relieved group at Mission Control, preparations were made for the first Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA). Though it was not a widely known plan and was not revealed publicly for many years, Armstrong took Communion privately from Aldrin who was an elder at the Webster Presbyterian Church in Webster, Texas.
Despite some technical and weather difficulties on television transmission, ghostly black and white images from the first EVA were received and broadcast to nearly 600 million viewers on Earth. The images recorded using a slow-scan television device were thought for many years to be lost, but it is reported that by June 26 of this year they had been found. The surface of the Moon was described as being covered in a fine and almost powder-like dust as Armstrong stepped from the Eagle’s landing footpad and into the annals of history. He famously described the experience by saying, “One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Though the recordings are not of a consistent quality, there is a slight discrepancy between the phrase that has been repeated through the years and what Armstrong claims he actually said - the inclusion of the ‘a man’ instead of ‘man.’
Aldrin joined Armstrong on the surface and tested their ability to move in the Moon’s gravity which is only one-sixth of Earth’s.
These men had helped America achieve President Kennedy’s goal of reaching the moon and after planting the U.S. flag on the lunar surface, they spoke with President Richard Nixon through a telephone-radio transmission. Samples were collected and during a two and a half hour stay on the surface the mission left behind symbols of America, peace and a message disk with goodwill statements from leaders throughout the world. As the 40-year-anniversary of this historic United States event looms on the horizon, each person with a fascination for space exploration and all that are old enough to remember are asked to take the time to recall where they were when history was written in the stars.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Famous Eagles in Space!
Listen to the historic lunar landing
Even though that eagle nebula is very impressive 40 years ago, Apollo 11 mission with the lunar module Eagle headed toward the moon to make history!
Saturday, July 18, 2009
An Eagle of Cosmic Proportions
Three-colour composite mosaic image of the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16, or NGC 6611), based on images obtained with the Wide-Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory. At the centre, the so-called “Pillars of Creation” can be seen. This wide-field image shows not only the central pillars, but also several others in the same star-forming region, as well as a huge number of stars in front of, in, or behind the Eagle Nebula. The cluster of bright stars to the upper right is NGC 6611, home to the massive and hot stars that illuminate the pillars. The “Spire” — another large pillar — is in the middle left of the image.
Eagles In Space!!! I didn't realize that we've gone cosmic!
Take a video tour!
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Thursday, July 16th 2009 " Harriet's News from The Mews"!
My girlscout friends from St. Paul are here today helping the clean up my mews! Do you know what mews are?
+++The term mews is plural in form but singular in construction, and arose from "mews" in the sense of a building where falconry birds are kept!+++
Anyway, Angel my mews mate, has been blurting out vocalizations to any eagle that happens to be flying by this morning. She even continued her eagle announcing when our morning volunteers brought her outside to perch!
I guess Angel is so audacious because she has been around humans since she fell out of her nest at fledging age!
As you can see I like to link certain words in my blog vocabulary. I'm learning this human vocalization called English so I try to look up certain words! Humans speak English here in Minnesota most of the time.
TTFN
Harriet the Eagle
+++The term mews is plural in form but singular in construction, and arose from "mews" in the sense of a building where falconry birds are kept!+++
Anyway, Angel my mews mate, has been blurting out vocalizations to any eagle that happens to be flying by this morning. She even continued her eagle announcing when our morning volunteers brought her outside to perch!
I guess Angel is so audacious because she has been around humans since she fell out of her nest at fledging age!
As you can see I like to link certain words in my blog vocabulary. I'm learning this human vocalization called English so I try to look up certain words! Humans speak English here in Minnesota most of the time.
TTFN
Harriet the Eagle
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Hey! I'm a blogging eagle with talons that get in the way!
So here I am new to this bloggin business! Good thing only my left wing is disabled. So as get used to this stuff, I'll post Eagle Center gossip in the mews and during my traveling around the country! TTFN!
Harriet
Harriet
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