Guest Book
We'd like to know what you think about Baza's web site. Please leave your comments in this public guest book so we can share your thoughts with other visitors. We would especially like to hear any stories, observations or other information about Bazas. Entries do not appear immediately to prevent abuse of the page. Only your name and comments are required. If you fill in your email we can contact you but your email will not appear on this page to prevent you being spammed. The most recent at the bottom.. Name: Kevin Edwards Comments: Cool page! I like the way stuff slides up and down when you scroll without the background moving. Awesome! Glad to see that Baza is still doing well. You have had him quite awhile now so by golly I think we can assume he likes you. :-) Keep up the good work on a cool site. Name: Stephen Syrotiak Comments: A remarkable story and fine photographs. Regards, Name: Nancy Santagata Comments: A wonderful story, and nicely done site!
Comments: Great news on Baza's latest visit! The site(s) is looking slick - keep it up bro.
Comments: Beautiful and sophisticated web site, lovely story and pictures. Best of wishes to all. Name: Britt Erken Comments: Thanks for the great Baza update. It's good to see that Baza's still a part of the family and hasn't forgotten his "parents". I hope he does stick around and visits regularly, so that I might get a chance to meet him one day when I return from Europe. Excellent web site, big brother! I'll spread the word... Lots of love to both you and Karin from Switzerland. Name: Carol Comments: I really enjoyed the story of Baza's return. Please keep up
the writing. I suspect that your he may be a she though. You'll have to let us
know. Great photos too. Name: deb Comments: Great story, great webpages. Very much enjoyed the visit and love your new found friend....deb in Alabama, USA Name: Melanie Comments: Hi again.. aloha Name: Wadzy Comments: Loved it!
Sun May 14, 2000 Comments: hi hans, karin, bazza and flock, thanks for spilling a little beauty into an otherwise drab and forlorne office down here in glebe. the new site is great, i enjoy following a raptor's progress and the obvious delight he~she brings to your life, hope you are well, love and feathers, len
Thu May 18, 2000 Comments: Wonderful site: amazing graphics; Very interesting info
regards "Baza"..Thanks for such an amazing site.
Fri Jun 2, 2000 Comments: Thanks so much for a lovely story and web site. I do hope Baza keeps coming back to pay his respects!
Wed Jun 7, 2000 Comments: STUNNINGLY, BRILLIANTLY, MIND BOGGLING, WOULDN'T MIND A SETUP Thu Jul 13, 2000 Comments: hi, surely internet is a fabulous thing. I never imagined that i will one day see a web site in my name as my surname is BAZA Fri Aug 18, 2000 Comments: Lenny showed me how to find Baza (not Bazza!) and I was and am
delighted, and will be returning on a more or less regular basis in rapt
anticipation of learning and seeing more of the beautiful bird and the rather
beaut guys involved. Thank you all. Cheers ... Fri Nov 10, 2000 Comments: Loved your page! Helped me to identify this huge unusual bird that has been visiting our backyard in suburban Brisbane. I have seen it two days in a row now, and I hope that it stays around. Best wishes. Katrina Wed Nov 29, 2000 Comments: Loved Baza, especially his fearlessness around humans, something common in the raptor family. Well done, for giving him the choice to be free and yet still visit. Mon Jun 4, 2001 Comments: He Hans, Sat Jul 14, 2001 Comments: Great setup!. We've noticed these birds at our place for the last 3-4 yrs so its great to finally learn where their from. Looks like baza's doin' good to. Keep up the great work guys :-) Sun Nov 4, 2001 Fri Feb 1, 2002 Comments: being a 'foodie' & looking for a cassava cake
recipe,after bying grated cassava from asian shop,i was so pleased to find one
at your site. but was even happier to find baza,he's a handsome bird & you
couldn't help but love him. Tue Jun 4, 2002 Mon Jul 15, 2002 Thu Jul 18, 2002 Sat Aug 17, 2002 Mon Sep 30, 2002 Comments: Great site thanx. Mon Oct 7, 2002 Comments: Grasshopper, It's too special! Master Fri Nov 15, 2002 Comments: enjoyed your presentation of "BAZA"......IT must surely give you great enjoyment (what's the latest???) cheers Wed Mar 12, 2003 Comments: Your Baza story brought tears to my eyes. Very
recently we had a pair of Bazas move in and build a magnificent nest high up in
a gum tree in our back yard. We watched these birds daily as they played,
hunted, and lived. After a while we realised that they either had chicks or eggs
because there was always one or the other with the nest at any given time. A few
weeks ago a violent storm swept through and we watched helplessly as the flooded
gum branches were flung wildly about in the winds. We feared that the nest would
not survive. However the next morning this obviously very well constructed nest
was still in tact. I was so happy. On closer inspection I realised that
something was hanging from the nest and I thought it was debris from the tree.
To my horror it was one of the Baza,s unwilling to leave the chicks or eggs
during the storm. I was devastated at the sight of this beautiful bird hanging
helplessly but bravely from the nest. She had lost her life in order to stay
with her young. The other Baza left a few days later and has not returned
as yet but we hope that he does. We had become very attached to theses gorgeous
birds and I still get teary when I think about them. Mon Apr 14, 2003 Comments: We have 3 of these birds flying around our place in Arana Hills, Brisbane. They look like a young one and its parents. We were wondering what they were and a friend told me their name and I looked it up on the web and came across your website. This is wonderful information. They are certainly a very impressive bird and I am amazed at the colours. I can imagine a whole outfit made in those colours - grey suit, lined with creamy lemon and an under shirt of cream with black stripes. Looks great on the bird! Thanks for your interest in supplying all this information Sun Sep 7, 2003 Comments: Thanks for sharing your fascinating Baza experience! We just returned from several weeks in Australia, and a Baza was the last new bird we "met" in Queensland the day before our departure. It was a magnificent bird, and I was looking for more information about them. Helen Mon Mar 8, 2004 Comments: This is a wonderful thing to happen, and all because you helped a needy creature when you could. best of luck Feb 6, 2005 Comments: We live in northern n.s.w and have two bazas living on our property. They are very noisy and love moving around a lot .They come very close to the house and we can see their markings very clearly. I haven't heard of Bazas until now. They are beautiful looking birds. This site allowed me to identify the birds straight away. Thanks Tue Feb 15, 2005 Comments: Thank you for wonderful and informative website. A member of WIRES in Sydney rescued one and I was wondering how it looks like. Now I know. It's just magnificent! Keep up the good work! Kind regards, Mia Caha Fri Mar 11, 2005 Comments: It`s taken a while to identify the two new birds we found talking to each other in the bush behind our home last week. We now know they were Bazas. They were interesting in that we had never seen them here before, (we live in Newcastle) and they sounded and looked like real characters. A lovely end to a busy day watching them from our deck. Enjoyed your website. Thank you. Date: Friday, 15 April 2005 Comments: We
love the story and the pictures. Hans you did a great job on this. Very
professional. We can feel the moods of Karin and you when Baza returned after 7
weeks. What a joy.
We recently did the ICW, Intercoastal Waterway on the East coast of the USA and
we were always looking for birds and there were thousands of them. The best part
to see birds is Georgie, marshes and marshes. Hardly any development and we
could sail for hours and hours without seeing a house in the distance. What
amazed us; there were a lot less ospryes then there were 4 years ago when we did
the same trip at the same time of year. Date: Monday, 16 May 2005 Comments: Great website. I did a search and found your site, we think we have a Pacific Baza in the bush near our home in the Blue Mountains... Date: Friday, 19 August 2005 Comments: Hello. Thanks for making this site. Its been helpful with the research I'm doing for some art work. A comic actually, for a group raptor portfolio. Knowing that bazas can be social helps alot... Date: Saturday, 20 August 2005 Comments: Do you still see Baza? We have moved on of the valley so I think it is unlikely we'll see our Baza on the occasional short visits down there. I do however see Bazas quite often because I am now so familiar with how they look, particularly in flight. Hans Date: Saturday, 04 February 2006 Name: John Ayling Comments: I spotted a pacific baza in Frenchs Forest NSW Feb 2006. He/She had just caught a small bird and was feeding on it about 10 feet above as I was walking, my Wife and I are always on the lookout for a different species and I have never spotted one of these before. It is good to read about the interest you have on this species. Name: Jane Powell Comments: What a beautiful bird and isn't it wonderful to have close interaction with wild animals. Ive just come across this site Aug 2006 and am wondering what the latest news is. I have just moved to Kenilworth and there are a pair of Pacific Bazas visiting our block of land. I took photos of them today as they were chased from tree to tree by Noisy Miners. Are you somewhere around here. Jane and thanks for the effort of making this website Name: willi Comments: Hi, Thought you might be interested in our Baza experience. Since last Thursday we have been feeding a baby bird not yet fledged fully which we at first thought was maybe an osprey but realised several days ago was a Baza. He seemed quite healthy and eats well. He was in a cage and we noticed an adult Baza talking to it, so we assumed it to be his Mum and tried him in several positions outside where she could get to him. We finally put him in a tree and now she has been feeding him during the day, with grasshoppers, grubs etc, much better fare than we were able to catch for him, but I found this quite astonishing since he has unavoidably been handled.We have heard so many times that a bird fallen or kicked from the nest is always abandoned ! I believe that she also has other young in her nest too. What do you think ? Regards Willi Hi Willi, The longer you associate with Bazas the more you will be astonished and you will think differently about the term 'bird-brain'. Do I understand correctly that right now the young bird has 2 carers, you and the adult or has the young bird gone bush with mum? Thanks for sharing Hans
Hi Hans , Attached is a photo of Rastus the day before he decided to go it alone in the huge Tipuana tipu tree just to the left of where this photo was taken. We were able to see him for a couple of days right near the top of this tree , but now we think he has either flown elsewhere or , more likely, is hiding in the Quisqualis vine which is abundant at the top of the tree. As you can see in the pic. he was free to do what he wanted. As I mentioned , my granddaughter is the only one who got a good shot of one of the parents giving him food, on video, and if she cant make it into a still pic. , maybe she can put it on CD, which I could send you. Not sure whether that would work., but we'll see. I don't think I mentioned that one parent actually sat beside Rastus once in the open cage on the same perch, and another time swooped down to feed him when one of my sons was standing right beside the cage. Willi Hi Willi, Thanks for sending this photo. It is so nice to see and hear about, another happy Baza experience. Hans Name: Janet Starr Comments: Hi, I have a web site Greyish-nomad.com I thought might like to see my mate a Baza it loves to show off. Janet http://www.greyish-nomad.com/PacificBaza.html Name: Dennis Moore Comments: Had a pair of Crested Hawks rear two chicks in a gum tree in our back yard in Gladstone. Chicks took to the air yesterday. I thought the nest was rather small for two such large birds. Saw one of the parents bring back what looked like a small fish one day. name: Eddie Lee Comments: Loved your site and my son Harrison, seven years old, and I have just had the pleasure of watching two Bazas in our yard near Maclean in NSW. We are always interested in the different birds that frequent our country home and the Bazas where totally new to us. What an experience, a magnificent bird and am truly envious of your experience. Well done on a great story.
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