I posted back on Tuesday about Monday evening seeing the eagles and how it looked like one of them was feeding a baby. See post here.
When we were watching the eagles a man was also watching them and remarked about some odd behavior of one eagle walking the rim of the nest. I thought that was strange too, but I figured maybe it was feeding the baby. See first photo.

A volunteer at the park on Thursday said that on the same day I took my pictures he saw the rogue immature eagles attacking the nest. Do eagles do that? I wonder if he was sure they were eagles. I couldn’t find anything on the internet about eagles attacking another eagle’s nest.

These are some of my first pictures with my new camera. I checked my photo properties to see what time I had taken the photos. It was Monday at 6:40 PM. ( I accidently had my camera settings set to AM instead of PM which caused the date to be advanced by 12 hours.)

We went back twice since Monday to find no activity at all around the nest. Now I believe the piece the eagle had in his mouth was an egg shell. The following are the other pictures I took Monday evening, the last time we saw the eagles. The one eagle was pacing around the perimeter of the nest the last time we saw it. I’m heart broken that the eagles are gone. I really looked forward to stopping and watching them.

At yesterday’s banding we banded a Magnolia Warbler. I hadn’t seen one before and was so impressed by its beautiful coloring. It was a rare opportunity for me to see these little warblers up close.

We spent the day out hiking and birding. The weather was just perfect. We drove to Woodcock Dam and hiked on the little trail behind the ranger’s station. I thought my knee was pretty much all healed from the surgery but when we started down the steep slope to the creek I had a definite problem. My kneecap felt like it was being stretched like a bow and arrow ready to go flying through the air. There wasn’t real pain, just a really weird and annoying feeling. I guess I hadn’t used that particular tendon since the surgery. It definitely needs stretching out.

After the gorgeous, sweet smelling hike we headed to the Erie National Wildlife Refuge. We saw the eagles flying in the sky and I got a few pictures of some birds. Most were hiding.
PhoebeMaking a nest.
Finishing touches.First grasshopper of the year.
On the way home we were followed for a while by the neatest little orange car thingy. Some type of roadster I guess you’d call it. I kinda got a photo of it.
That looked like it would be fun to ride in!

Another great day!