I have been so remiss the last few weeks ... it gets hard to keep up when summer arrives! But I wanted to share my good fortune!
I got to name one of the chicks on the Channel Islands this year!!

My name was chosen to give K31 (m) from the Seal Rocks nest a name. Seal Rocks used to be one of my favorite nests to watch and I miss that pair terribly.
Well ..... after a lot of thinking and searching and more searching and more thinking ...

I finally came up with a name.
K31 is a male ... and I have named him "Edge" ... after Rosalie Edge. I told Dr. Sharpe I wanted to give California a little Pennsylvania. Edge's sister, K32, has been named Shasta. I think those names sound pretty darn good together! Shasta & Edge!
I'm sure many folks may know who Rosalie Edge is .. but briefly, she was the founder of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary here in PA. Thousands upon thousands of migrating raptors were shot and killed from the ridge at Hawk Mtn. (this went on for
decades!) In 1934 Rosalie Edge ended that by buying the property! Her inspiration to become a conservation activist came when she read about the slaughter of 70,000 Bald Eagles in Alaska. In 1960, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary provided the scientist and author Rachel Carson with significant migration data that enabled her to link the decline in the juvenile raptor population to DDT, in her best-selling book, Silent Spring.
Everyone is coming up with some wonderful names for all the chicks ... I'll try to copy the list over when it's complete.
PS ... everyone has fledged from the CI nests except K28 at West End... she's being a lazykins!