The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 2008 Page: 18 of 32
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THURSDAY S MAY 2DDS
THE CANADIAN RECORD
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We are being made increasingly aware of the harm we are doing to our
surroundings: the air, the earth, the growing things on the earth and, of
course, eventually, to ourselves and to those who will follow us.
A publication I receive is titled The Wilderness Guardian and is pub-
lished by the Sierra Club. The core of the Sierra Club's mission is to pro-
vide people with; resources, tools and solutions which will help us live clean,
green lives. The Spring issue of The Guardian reports on their partner-
ship with "Green Works"—a new line of all-natural, eco-friendly cleaning
products which is being launched by Clorox.
"Green Works" will make affordable, natural cleaning products avail-
able all over the United States. Their products are made from natural,
renewable resources such as coconuts, lemon oils, and others. The ingre-
dients are biodegradable and are 99% petrochemical-free. They contain
no bleach or phosphorous and do not use aerosol. And there is no animal
testing!
The Green Works products include bathroom cleaner, all-purpose clean-
er, glass and surface cleaner, toilet bowl cleaner and a dilutable cleaner.
The line is the only one that has all of the key elements the Sierra Club
considers essential for such a products: accessab: lity, affordable, and equal
to or better than conventional products 11 how they work.
In addition, the products of Green Works are priced from 30% to 50% lower than the prices
of other natural products available at this time. And the fact that the Clorox Company is be-
hind the product is a real plus.
I will be watching for "Green Works" in our stores.
The Wilderness Guardian will be of interest to all who care about the world we live in—
and isn't that every one of us! You can be a subscriber by writing The Sierra Club, 85 Second
Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105 or contacting www.sierraclub.org.
You, too, can learn more about how to explore, enjoy and protect the planet.
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Learning
the
Ospreys
OSPREYS ARE MAGNIFICENT fish-eating raptors. They're found plunging into
shallow water across much of North America, breeding in the north and traveling to
the southern shores.
Hawks are not known for the charm of their voices, but Ospreys make a variety of
calls in a sweet, almost musical tone.
In size an Osprey is enormous. Compared to a Red-tailed Hawk, an Osprey's body is
4 inches longer, and its long, narrow, crooked wings extend 7 inches further on either side.
The Osprey is the only hawk that flies with a crook in its wings. The crook is a bend
at the carpal joint or wrist of the wing. David Allen Sibley says the wings are "always
angled and bowed down; gull-like." Ospreys are most often confused n the air for gulls,
and their white underparts and head add to the illusion.
The general plumage is dark chocolate brown on top and white underneath. An Os-
prey up close has a shaggy white head and a rumpled appearance. A thick dark smudge
across the eyes extends to the back of the head and blends nto the chocolate brown of
the body. There's also a vague dark spot above a white forehead. Smoldering orange
eyes are surrounded by brown rings, and the large bill is hooked, fierce, and gray.
Underneath there are dark patches on the carpal j oints; white wings are dark on the
trailing edge. A white breast is splattered with heart-shaped spots of black, denser on
the females. White breast feathers have black shafts.
A hunting Osprey hovers high above shallow water looking for fish. When the mo-
ment is right, the Osprey plunges toward the water in a most unusual position: the head
is down, and so are the feet, thrust forward to enter the water just ahead of the eyes,
claws open and at the ready.
Those large pearl-gray feet and black claws have been described as "perfect fish
traps," strong and scaly enough to retain a slippery fish. The outer toe of an Osprey's foot
is reversible, like an owl's, and there are special barbed pads on the soles of the feet.
Ospreys hunt in shallow water because of the difficulty of rising from the water par-
tially submerged and burdened with a heavy load. Powerful deltoids lift the laden birds
out of the water, and carry them up into the air.
Sometimes fish are misjudged in the water. R. I. Brasher wrote from a yacht, "I saw
one on the St. Lucie River ... dragged under by a large ntended victim. The Osprey
finally succeeded in getting its claws free, but was so nearly drowned that it lay on the
yacht's deck for ten minutes before recovering sufficiently to fly."
Once in the air, the fish is swiveled around to be carried head-first. An Osprey fly-
ng with a fish looks like it's hauling around a small fuselage. Sometimes Ospreys fly
around and around with a fish in tow, as though to give it a nice long aerodynamic ride
before the end. Landings are made on one foot and fish are eaten at once.
Forty years ago, Ospreys were in terrible trouble: pesticides like DDT nearly wiped
them out, and waterfront development robbed them of habitat. Since then, pesticide
restrictions and increasing use of man-made nesting platforms have brought this im-
pressive native fisherman back from the brink.
-Thanks to Birds of North America Online and The Sibley Guide to Bird Life &
Behavior
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There is an urgent need for more families to
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Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 2008, newspaper, May 8, 2008; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth252703/m1/18/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.