Okay here's the deal. This has proved to be a somewhat touchy issue because we have a few core people who care deeply about these animals and then we have a LOT of people who are only casually aware of what's going on but constitute a large majority of our viewers/web visitors.
I wrestled with this for a couple days and this morning proposed a compromise solution during the station's Special Projects meeting.
So here is my solution. We will split this process in two, ask our forum habitués to name the hawklet which died and allowing the other naming poll to continue, albeit somewhat modified, through May 5 as originally scheduled.
Now as with most compromises, I suspect this will satisfy no one completely, but hope it will satisfy everyone to at least some degree.
As to the original names chosen for the poll: Those choices were made based largely on popularity and appropriateness. Had we gone with the recommendations alone, Sunny and Stormy would have won handily, they were by far the most suggested names (followed by Sunny and Windy).
I will create a new post for the naming of the hawklet which died... and invite everyone to participate if you wish.
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Russell Mills
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