I have had a busy week….and on Friday I managed to carve out a day to visit a new nest, meet one of our new volunteer monitors and make a big tour of a bunch of other nests way out in Wright county.
The new monitor, Mary, found this new nest earlier this spring and reported it to us and is also monitoring it! It isnt always easy to find time to connect with the monitors, but I enjoy it so much when I do. We had a delightful day, tho a little wet in the beginning, that Mary ended up describing as a treasure hunt! Visiting nests, counting the little heads, trying to figure out behaviors, watching a little conflict with an eagle etc…. SO many interesting things to observe and talk about. I took these crummy dark photos at the new nest….it had just stopped raining. There actually were three chicks tho I couldn’t get them all in one photo as they popped up and disappeared….but we both counted three! But what struck me when I looked at these photos at home….was the Mom. Dad was feeding two of the chicks and the tiniest one was snuggled closer to mom. But look at Moms face…..she is watching the male feed the chicks with such focused intensity…it just really touched me.
And a photo of Mary….who I already know will be a great asset to our project!
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