It was early April and I was still keeping an eye on the lone baby eagle in the neighborhood. He was still doing quite a bit of flapping. Our neighborhood is in the Coast Guard flight path but I rarely see them. This morning I caught one flying low past the nest. The eaglet didn’t seem to notice.
Mom was yelling at an osprey that had gotten too close to the nest and then chased him away. The osprey nest is just down the field in the next tower so there’s going to be some territory overlap.
The intruder.
The baby was getting some serious air.
The baby hopped over to the edge of the tower and started flapping. I was worried he was going to take off and not make it back up to the nest but he didn’t jump off.
He grabbed a stick on the nest and was either playing with it or moving it out of the way.
He was getting some high jumps and was moving around the tower.
Ibis flying by.
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!
Junior is getting some nice height on those jumps. Won’t be long now.
Nice series of photographs!
Wonderful photos! It is interesting to see the eaglet practicing his take offs and landings
Looks like he’ll soon be ready to take off from the nest! He’s surely getting his exercise!
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These are great – I like the first one with the big metal bird in the background…#WildbirdWednesday
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A magnificent story in pictures. Love how the plane showed up in the first shot. Happy Wednesday!
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