Photos: It’s a rapt audience for this special bird-day party

[Omaha Steve]

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POSTED: SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 2016 12:30 AM | UPDATED: 1:37 AM, SUN JAN 10, 2016.
From staff reports

Eli Wheeler, 6, is excited to learn all about owl pellets and raptor talons on Saturday from Grace Noecker. He was at the Fontenelle Forest Nature Center with his three sisters, from left, Brooklyn, 11; Talia, 9, and Annika, 2, along with his mother, Kara Wheeler, for the annual Raptor Bird-day Party.

Eastern screech owl George perches on Deborah Woracek's hand, and Grasshopper, a swainson's hawk, shows off its talons on Jeanine Lackey's gloved hand.

Annika Wheeler, 2, munches on a cupcake as her 6-year-old brother, Eli, plays with a raptor craft. The mouse cupcakes were part of the festivities.

Kathleen Fleming, 8, and John Fleming, 6, learn about 3-year-old George from Woracek.

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1. This is probably the same sort of subversive activity that went on at Malheur...

...before that God-fearing band of intellectuals took it over for the people!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]