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[apl68]

A saw-whet owl turned up in the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. The person who found it thought it was a baby owl because of its size. Must be the 2020 variation of the partridge in a pear tree.

Here are the details and pictures from the NY Times and NBC News:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/nyregion/christmas-tree-rockefeller.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tiny-owl-rescued-rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-travelled-170-miles-n1248166

"And a saw-whet owl in a Norway spruce tree" is kind of a mouthful....

Glad they found him in time and were able to nurse him back to health.  That has to have been a nerve-wracking experience.  Maybe even worse than that bat that accidentally hitched a ride on a co-worker's car and rode into work with her one morning.  On the outside of the car.

[Langue_doc]

I hope the bat lived to tell the tale. I wonder how traumatized birds and animals cope with such stresses.

[AmLitHist]

The Rockefeller owl is now my computer background.

ALHS said he probably will go back to his home and tell all the other owls, "Guys. . . you're not going to believe this. . . . "

[apl68]

I hope the bat lived to tell the tale. I wonder how traumatized birds and animals cope with such stresses.

Yes, it survived.  When the driver got out of her car at work, she thought she saw a funny-looking leaf wrapped around her car antenna.  Turned out it was that bat.  It had been clinging for dear life on the expressway, in what it probably interpreted as a really sudden and severe windstorm.  After a bit the shock wore off and it went on its way.

[mamselle]

The poor bat!!

Glad it got to fly away.

M.

[Langue_doc]

Rocky, the stowaway owl, has been released in a forest with plenty of conifers.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/11/rockefeller-the-viral-stowaway-nyc-christmas-tree-owl-flies-free/

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/25/us/rockefeller-tree-owl-released-trnd/index.html

[FishProf]

He wasn't a stowaway. He was trafficked.

Or owlnapped.

Or something.

[Parasaurolophus]

I've finally been placed on the salary scale at my institution. I got placed halfway through, which means a $15 000 raise, and I'll go up a step every year I teach a full load for the next five, at which point I'll hit the maximum salary. There may well be a blip year in there somewhere, but it seems quite likely at the moment that I'll have full loads for the next while. But even if not, it's now a pretty decent salary.

Yay!

[ab_grp]

I've finally been placed on the salary scale at my institution. I got placed halfway through, which means a $15 000 raise, and I'll go up a step every year I teach a full load for the next five, at which point I'll hit the maximum salary. There may well be a blip year in there somewhere, but it seems quite likely at the moment that I'll have full loads for the next while. But even if not, it's now a pretty decent salary.

Yay!

Awesome! Congratulations!

[aside]

I've finally been placed on the salary scale at my institution. I got placed halfway through, which means a $15 000 raise, and I'll go up a step every year I teach a full load for the next five, at which point I'll hit the maximum salary. There may well be a blip year in there somewhere, but it seems quite likely at the moment that I'll have full loads for the next while. But even if not, it's now a pretty decent salary.

Yay!

Awesome! Congratulations!

Congratulations!

[smallcleanrat]

I've finally been placed on the salary scale at my institution. I got placed halfway through, which means a $15 000 raise, and I'll go up a step every year I teach a full load for the next five, at which point I'll hit the maximum salary. There may well be a blip year in there somewhere, but it seems quite likely at the moment that I'll have full loads for the next while. But even if not, it's now a pretty decent salary.

Yay!

Excellent news, Parasaurolophus. Congratulations!

[mamselle]

Good for you.

From all that appears on the writing and research threads, it would seem that you very richly deserve it.

M.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

I've finally been placed on the salary scale at my institution. I got placed halfway through, which means a $15 000 raise, and I'll go up a step every year I teach a full load for the next five, at which point I'll hit the maximum salary. There may well be a blip year in there somewhere, but it seems quite likely at the moment that I'll have full loads for the next while. But even if not, it's now a pretty decent salary.

Yay!

Congrats!!!

[AmLitHist]

SO happy for you, Parasaurolophus!  Congratulations!

[Parasaurolophus]

Thanks, everyone!

The news today is even better: they made a mistake with my placement on the salary scale. I'm actually a step higher, which means another $3k!


Well. Until I see the tax bill!