Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Raptors by OHMIC (1.5/1.5) N50° 13.356  W97° 09.629 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 631219  N 5565000 Use waypoint: GC1BZ2C Size: Small    Hidden on 5/5/2008 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:               Small plastic container. Bird of prey, also known as a raptor, a type of bird often characterized by a hooked beak, sharp talons, and keen eyesight. They hunt for food primarily on the wing, using their keen senses, especially vision; the talons and beaks tend to be relatively large, powerful and adapted for tearing and/or piercing flesh. Raptor names Eagles tend to be large birds with long, broad wings and massive feet. They build very large stick nests. True hawks are medium-sized birds of prey that usually belong to the genus Accipiter. They are mainly woodland birds that hunt by sudden dashes from a concealed perch. They usually have long tails for tight steering. Buzzards are medium-large raptors with robust bodies and broad wings, or, alternatively, any bird of the genus Buteo (also commonly known as "hawks" in North America). Harriers are large, slender hawk-like birds with long tails and long thin legs. Most hunt small vertebrates with a combination of keen eyesight and hearing, gliding and circling low over grasslands and marshes on their long broad wings. Vultures are carrion-eating raptors Cathartidae. They have heads either partly or fully denuded of feathers. Falcons are small to medium sized birds of prey with long pointed wings. Unlike most other raptors, they belong to the Falconidae rather than the Accipitridae. Many are particularly swift flyers. Instead of building their own nests, falcons appropriate old nests of other birds but sometimes they lay their eggs on cliff ledges or in tree hollows. Owls are variable-sized, typically night-specialized hunting birds. They fly soundlessly and have very acute senses of hearing and low-light vision. Many raptors can be seen at Oak Hammock Marsh and this is one of the best place to see them. Can you spot one?

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7/8/2011 by Kabuthunk
Wow, did the name of this cache confuse me... which seems to be a running constant for most of the caches during this trip. I'm confused about the name while I'm actively looking for the cache, but understand far more and learn a lot of new facts when I read the cache description. It's win/win... well, provided you count confusion as a win. I don't though . So it's confuse/win. But yes... quite informative... I was never aware that birds of prey were known as raptors. I was also unaware that there was so many different varieties of them in Manitoba, let alone Oak Hammock marsh alone!

But aside from that... having just finished tackling the various Northmost caches to Oak Hammock marsh, I decided to snag the caches on the road leading up to this Northmost area, so that next time I visit (unless another cache is placed up here somewhere by then) I’ll only have the ‘middle’ and ‘bottom’ sections to go after caches. It’ll save me driving or walking, at the bare minimum, anyway. So thankfully the place seemed extremely quiet today, and not a soul was seen coming either from the North or the South (well… I was the only person in the North, so the only other person that could feasibly come from there would be a farmer from one of the fields), so I was able to park my car on the edge of the road easily without worrying much about blocking the path of others. I DID pull over as much as I could however, just because y’know… I’m not a jerk .

I was a bit hesitant to hop out of the car at first, since horseflies seemed to literally be swarming the outside of my car. Seriously, how in the world do these guys breed so much? I mean sure, I imagine there’s lots of wildlife to feed on out here, but everyone else has fur of feathers or something… I can’t imagine a horsefly having an easy time getting anything from anything other than us fleshy meat-sacks . But hop out I did, and I quickly rushed to the coordinates. The cache container was found, much like the others around here, quite quickly, and I moved around as best I could back and forth in order to be able to sign the log and drop in a chainmail ball. Replacing the cache from whence it came, I headed back to the car.

But it appears that my return has been blocked! Various horseflies were wandering over the door of the car and the windows, just waiting for me.

Clever girls…

However, I was not to be denied my safety from these horseflies, nor the air conditioning within the car. What these horseflies didn’t realize is that the door opens OUTWARDS! That’s right, suckers, that thing you were standing on while waiting for me? What’s that, it suddenly moved and shoved all of you away from the big silver thing that the meat-sack came out of? Well, that’s too bad! I managed to close myself back in the car without a single one getting in after me. Victory! Another cache down, various more to go. It’s time for me to work my way South for a while.

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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