AT HOME IN THE PINE

This is the third year that Ozzie and Harriet have starred on their own Eagle webcam.   Their tree home is a couple of miles from where we live here in Fort Myers, making it almost as easy for us to watch them either live as on camera.   I'm not quite as obsessed this year, since we saw so many bald eagles in Alaska last  summer, but I can't resist stopping by the nest once in a while. (And of course we were too early for eaglets in Alaska.)

 

 

I stopped by to visit our neighbors last Saturday morning.    Here is Harriet enjoying the early afternoon sunshine.   

 

 

Her little one woke up from a nap and soon started peeping plaintively.    It sounded like "Hey, I'm all alone here." 

 

 

 For all E-6 (the baby) knew, mom and dad could have been miles away, but the whole time I watched, Harriet was only this far from the nest, practicing a little healthy parental neglect.    Watching, waiting, starting to teach independence.  

 

"Well, if there's not going to be anything new to eat, guess I might as well practice flapping my wings."

 

 

I'd hoped to see Ozzie fly in with early dinner, but he didn't oblige.  Harriet and E-6 continued to wait (with differing degrees of patience), but I had errands to run.  Maybe next visit.

 

(Harriet hatched two eggs again this season, but sadly last month E-5 died from unknown causes.     E-6 was about 50 days old in these pictures.)

 

 This post is linked to Eileen's SATURDAY CRITTERS  to Annie's RATHER B' BIRDING, and to Michelle's NATURE NOTES.  

 

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