SHADES OF SKY WHILE EAGLE WATCHING

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 Earlier this month I spent a couple of late-afternoon hours near our local eagle nest.  I got a few halfway decent pictures with eagles (this post) and even more without them.  

I focused on the scrub pine where the nest is, waiting for someone to come home.  (The Eagle cam is attached to the trunk on the left.)   

 

Most of the Eagle pictures on the other post were taken between this picture and the one beneath.  The starlings set up a huge racket as they settled onto these branches for the night.

 

Both eagles were sitting only a few yards away from the 'starling tree', but they paid no attention to them. 

 

 

 

 I don't know if there is safety in numbers for the starlings or if they just aren't worth it as food for the eagles.    Sometimes the eagles bring in egrets or gulls to the nest as well as fish.  

The sun was starting to go down.  I love the golden skies we get sometimes … sunrise and sunset.

 

 

It was almost dark as I headed for the car. Below is one of the eagles silhouetted above the nest.

 

 

 

Both eaglets seem to be doing fine now after the difficult start.  Both are being fed.

 

 

LINKING TO NATURE NOTES (better late than never) and SKYWATCH FRIDAY.

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