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HAPPY CANADA DAY!!

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We just returned from a road trip, got to see a bit of Canada out west. Lots of mountains

The road led through this rocky cut. Note the rain on the windshield. Yes, we travelled in a convertible, but couldn’t put the top down most of the time because it rained, poured, hailed, showered, sprinkled, pretty well the whole way. 🙂
The rivers and streams we passed were swelling up to the top of their bank, like this one. Flood warnings out everywhere. The snow pack in the mountains was said to be twice as deep as usual, and because of the late spring, it hadn’t melted yet.

No, this is not smoke, that was last year (sigh). It’s fog, so dense you can barely see the mountain behind. It was a great trip. We saw friends, family and met new ones. Aren’t we lucky? Let’s take good care of this place.

Eagle leaves the nest

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I know I’ve talked about this eagle nest before. But we were away for a couple of weeks. When we returned a few days ago, the baby had left the nest. He ended up on the top of a rock across our driveway, now and then fluttering his wings but not flying. I don’t know how long he’s been there.

We were afraid he would die up there, but with a telescope in the back of our pickup (:)) we were able to see there was a dead duck on the ground in front of him which he would pick at from time to time, so he was being looked after. Today a deer appeared, browsing along the grass at the foot of the rock. (The eagle is still up there, hard to see him behind the tree branch.)
The eagle froze. I was afraid the deer would discover the young bird. He kept lifting his head and waving his nose around, must have smelled the duck, and he climbed up and down the rock, but didn’t go closer to the eaglet.

Once the deer left, one of the parents flew in and landed beside the youngster. They twittered together for a time. Then the parent tore strips of meat off the duck and handed it over, beak to beak with the baby. Still looking after the little one. It’s been fun to watch.

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Eagles chapter two

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The eagles have been very busy. They have continued to increase the size of the nest until we could no longer tell if Mama was sitting on the eggs, if there were eggs. Here’s what it looks like now, nearly twice the size as it was in March when I last posted, cascading down the tree, hooked on 3 or 4 branches now.

My husband and I were standing on the driveway talking when an eagle flew low overhead and landed behind a high rock. Eagles don’t do that as a rule, they stick to the trees unless they’re after something. A minute later, it flew off with something in it’s claws, went to the nest briefly, then darted into the nearest tree. Here it is resting in the tree.

We climbed up to see what he was after, and found a large clump of moss torn up. He must have placed the moss in the nest as a cushion for the eggs. Does that mean the eggs are yet to be laid? We don’t know. Wish I had a mirror fixed in the tree that would show me what’s in the nest. 🙂

What do you think is going on? Drop me a comment.

Eagle in the Nest

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We have bald eagles around our land, and this winter, starting in December, a couple of eagles built a nest in a cottonwood tree just down from the house. Here it is, full of twigs and tree limbs. We kept seeing them flying past our house, carrying big branches in their claws, and followed them around until we found what they were doing. There is an eagle parked in the nest now, so we figure the eggs have been laid. That means they should hatch in 5 weeks, around the 12th of April. Very exciting. I’ll keep you posted. 🙂