Off for the holidays

• by mason_UWI scientist

  Hi all!

  I'm leaving for Cyprus today and plan on not having any internet connection until I get back in January. Just wanted you to know why you won't see me commenting on the boards for a bit. I'm hoping to see some different types of urban wildlife over there!

  Happy Holidays!

  Mason

  Posted December 18, 2015 2:55 PM

• by yshish in response to mason_UWI's comment.

  Hey,

  Enjoy your Cyprus holiday, Mason! I'm sorry I was away for so long. I've just came back from my 2-week long fieldwork, but I've left the country again today and will stay abroad until the 4th January. Luckily, I've got a good internet connection here. I can't wait to do some CWW classifications 😃

  Cheers!

  Zuzi

  Posted December 19, 2015 7:23 PM

• by WillowSkye

  Hey Z, you're back, yay! 😃 and M's gone off 😦 but hey, thanks for all the great fun this past year at CWW!

  I would like to wish you all at CWW in my home language: Geseënde Kersfees en 'n Voorspoedige Nuwe Jaar which translated into English means Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

  We're currently frying like chickens here in South Africa due to a tremendous drought and heatwaves. So if you like KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken), Chicken Licken or Nando's (with hot peri-peri sauce), SA is the place to be. I wonder how's it going in Australia with the kangaroos and wombats? But I do know one thing: Chicago is Cool 😉

  Posted December 21, 2015 1:23 PM

• by abloss

  Mmmm. Peri-peri sauce! There actually is a Nando's in Chicago. And, Chicago is not cool right now. It is raining hard, and temperature is about 45 degrees F (about 7 degrees C). No chance for snow this Christmas. All I can do is enjoy all of those snow scenes I see here.

  Happy holidays to all you CWW folks!

  Posted December 21, 2015 3:51 PM

• by ForestPreserve moderator

  Hot sauce, reminds me of hot dogs (as long as your sauce isn't ketchup).

  Happy holidays to all CWWers!

  

  (Yes, a CWW camera may be lurking in the background.)

  Posted December 21, 2015 8:44 PM

• by abloss

  Superdawg. Superfries. Picnic lunch in Caldwell Woods. Get your picture taken. Life is good.

  Posted December 21, 2015 9:33 PM

• by WillowSkye

  So that's what Superdawg looks like - Awesome! 😃 And you've got Nando's - double Awesome! 😃 So KFC you know, Nando's you know but here's Chicken Licken:

  For The Love Of The Little Things - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVkJ3BICQCA

  Sorry that you don't have snow for Christmas, but if you've got supermassive fans, you can maybe propel some of that rain over to this side 😉

  Posted December 22, 2015 5:34 PM

• by yshish

  Yay, we have some snow in my country, not the place where I am now though.. Here is a picture from my fieldwork 😃

  

  Merry Christmas!

  Posted December 22, 2015 11:15 PM

• by abloss

  Hi Zuzi - What a beautiful photo. May I ask where you are now and what fieldwork you were doing? Happy holidays! Alex

  Posted December 23, 2015 4:09 AM

• by abloss in response to WillowSkye's comment.

  Willow - Those little chicken bites in the video look like White Castle burgers here in Chicago. We affectionately call those greasy little things "sliders", which is probably similar to the "slyders" on Chicken Licken's menu. I love them! Cheers!

  Posted December 23, 2015 4:15 AM

• by WillowSkye

  Haha 😃 Yes, A, it looks like it's the same. On the Menu there are even "California Coolers" which refer to Cooldrinks and Milkshakes 😃

  Posted December 23, 2015 1:11 PM

• by WillowSkye in response to yshish's comment.

  Wow Z that is amazingly beautiful 😃

  Posted December 23, 2015 1:48 PM

• by yshish in response to abloss's comment.

  Hi Alex,

  Thanks. We had a wonderful time there! At this moment, I'm in the most Eastern Slovakia, but my 'fieldwork' was far away from here, on the boarders between Czech republic and Poland, mostly on the Czech side.

  Happy holidays to you too!

  Z.

  Posted December 23, 2015 2:53 PM

• by mason_UWI scientist

  And I'm back! Cyprus was great, I'll be writing a little blog post about urban wildlife there. The island has a lot of feral cats.

  Posted January 4, 2016 2:50 PM

• by WillowSkye

  Welcome back, Mason, cool picture 😃 I wonder which cat Zuzi, Alex and everybody else would choose, if there was a choice? I like all of them but will probably go for the sitting one to the right 😃

  Posted January 4, 2016 5:28 PM

• by yshish in response to WillowSkye's comment.

  Yay, welcome back, @mason_UWI 😃 Looking forward to the blog post.

  @WillowSkye Hah, I wouldn't like to keep any but they're all co incredibly cute I could watch them all the day/night and the day after again 😄 (Yeah, I love watching cats too!)

  Posted January 4, 2016 6:55 PM

• by mason_UWI scientist

  The cats actually seemed to be the ones doing the choosing. This one hopped onto my lap when I took a knee to snap the previous photo! Don't mind the wild hair, it was windy that day.

  

  Posted January 4, 2016 8:29 PM

• by abloss

  Well, my two cats would disagree, but I would choose the one bottom left.

  Posted January 4, 2016 8:47 PM

• by yshish in response to mason_UWI's comment.

  Haha, what a Narcissus cat! 😄 Anyway, it is a great photo!

  Posted January 4, 2016 10:30 PM

• by WillowSkye

  Awww, that cat is clever - it knows about selfies or maybe it was Aphrodite in disguise 😉

  Posted January 7, 2016 9:33 PM