Winter feathers

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I’ve recently moved. The incentive being for love. The bonus is my very long private road where pictured here is one of my many new neighbors scouting out breakfast.

Six Plus Decades

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I️ took my mom with me the other day to see the Audubon where I️ volunteer . On the way there I️ have been spotting bald eagles. My mother has never, in 73 years, seen a bald eagle in the wild. She watches the bird cams online where she can follow eaglets or hawks or even herons.

On our drive there, no eagles were visible. I️ was bummed but hoped they may be about on our way back. And just one was. My mom wanted me to post this eagle, despite any other eagle photos that I’ve posted because this is her special eagle.

In a separate occasion my center was rehabbing an eagle who had been poisoned. The eagle did make a full recovery and was released but in the meantime, my father came to visit while I️ was volunteering and was able to take a peek at the eagle. For the release, he and I️ met up together in a quiet weekday morning to witness this beautiful creature, soaring back to his lands.

I have been able to connect both of my parents to a personal experience with an eagle while they were in their 70s. I’m so grateful that I could.

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It was a fantastic morning, as I️ have never seen not one, but THREE juvenile Bald Eagles! Two of them were not especially feeling the need for my company but one of them tolerated my tiny body near his tree. I️ did catch one of them mid-call, but it was a half hour before a good snow so the lighting was as tricky. Nonetheless, miracles can even happen in the dark.

Early morning sights

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In my way to the Audubon this past weekend, a glimpse of large darkness in a roadside tree caught my eye. Not just one bald eagle, but four or five of them – most being juveniles. There is always time to pull over and be in the space with such majesty. 

I-phone Strikes Again

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There are times that the iPhone release or passes and in better time what my regular camera can do.  If I had trained my camera on this little dragonflies face it would have whined and said “I caaaaaaan’t. I don’t feeeeeeel like focusing! His face is too tiny!” 

But this is where my iPhone says “let me surprise you.”