NEST ACTIVITY - MONDAY OCTOBER 3rd


Good Morning Everybody! Have a great day!

NEST ACTIVITY

7:08 thinking Harriet in nest

now both doing nestorations

715 am H to porch and m to spike

715 am H to porch and m to spike

7:36 am M comes back with a stick

8:28am Harriet back to the nest with a stick.

8:30 M on cam1

8:40 M was on the attic branch

8:40 H in with a stick

8:44 H fly off

8:48 H in with a stick

8:50 M fly off 8:53 M in with a stick

8:52 both in the nest

8:53 H to porch. M fly off

8:58 M in with a stick

9:03 M to porch with H sounded like a mating attempt, H to nest.

9:04 M flly off. H is moving sticks in nest.

9:08 M back with grasses

9:11 M to spike then fly off.

9:19 M in with a stick.

9:20 H on spike, M flies from the nest.

9:25 H preening her neckline, I love the movement of their neck muscles and feathers when they preen that area.

10:14 Harriet is now on an outer branch of the nest tree, preening. M15 has not returned since 9:20am.

She is doing a very through preening. Interesting how she rubs her head on her wings. I guess I never noticed that before.

maybe thais how they get the oils to their head feathers

Yes, she has always done that, more often than any of her mates or offspring.

10:40 H flies off the outer branch.

10:49 H flies off the outer branch.

3.55 ish panned to pond trees, poles, no eagles seen, raining pretty good now.

5.52ish thought I heard vocals (will login to look at oct/pond area)

Nothing seen at the pond or on pond trees/oct

Is there someone in the branch above H's upper branch?

might be one of those clusters that fool us al

Think that is a blob o needles?

hasn't moved for days lol.

6.07 someone on the oct now

im going to say it is Harriet

Is there a critter in that knot hole? lol.

illusion, thought I saw eyes!

from here it looks like an owl

7.11 ish both on OCT now

7:57 both H and M remain on the OCT, goodnight you two, goodnight OCT, goodnight nest tree, goodnight beautiful new nest.

SWFEC team for all your observations

NEST ACTIVITY - TUESDAY OCTOBER 4th


Good morning SWFEC friends and family!

NEST ACTIVITY CONTINUED


6:00 I am at the nest. H and M in OCT.

7:15 M flies off oct.

M15 flew across the road. Then he chased a bird in the sky above yonder pond area, looked like an egret. He chased after the bird for a while and then flew on to the south, out of sight.

8:44 M to nest with a stick

9:00 both on porch

9:15 M15 sneezes twice

M15 in to the nest with another nice stick at 9:20am.

Both Harriet and M15 leave the nest tree at 9:22am - towards west pasture.

Harriet back to the nest with stick at 9:25am.

M15 back to the nest with stick at 9:28am.

M15 back to the nest at 9:36am - most nesting material.


9:40 H to the Spike

9:41 M lays in the nest


9:44 H in with a stick

9:51am M15 back to the nest with more nest material.

9:53 M lays in the nest again

SWFEC team for all your observations!

NEST ACTIVITY CONTINUED

9:47-51 m on spike, flies to front pine. Goes at branch. Misses. M flies to ground in west pasture by fence. Back with grasses.

10:20 M on porch. H on outer branch. I am headed home.


5:49pm H flies to the upper branch of the nest tree.
6:32 H still on the nest tree upper branch

7.22 panned, no sign of H or M, didn't check power poles.
SWFEC team for all your observations!

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/n9pHcGaHkFw

8 Sticks/2 Grasses In 1 Hour~M Targets Egret In The Sky 10-04-16

M15 worked in the nest before flying south, taking several passes, diving and turning, at an egret flying by. When he returned 8 sticks (H/2, M/6) and 2 bunches of grasses (M) were added. A first for this season, M15 laid down in the nest 2 times as Harriet watched from her perch nearby.

M15 chasing the egret


Harriet with a stick in her beak and a stick with moss in her talons


M15 with a large stick flying over the loggerhead shrike perched on the lines

NEST ACTIVITY - WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5th


Good morning everybody! Have a great day!

NEST ACTIVITY

Wskrsnwngs: 6:30 I am at the nest. No eagles seen or heard.

So quiet , almost makes you wonder if they know something about "Matthew" that we do not.

Wskrsnwngs: 9:27 I headed home at 9:00am. Harriet and M15 still not seen or heard.

SWFEC team for all your observations!!