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LisaG1967

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1230 on: July 07, 2023, 05:05:40 PM »
Quote from: LORIDAVIS on July 07, 2023, 11:48:45 AM
great shots Lisa!!  "where's breakfish"? 💜

Thanks, Lori  :)
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LisaG1967

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1231 on: July 07, 2023, 05:08:23 PM »
A few afternoon pics of DH2




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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1232 on: July 07, 2023, 08:29:18 PM »
Beautiful! Thanks, Lisa!
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They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth. ~ Henry Beston
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STLbf

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1233 on: July 07, 2023, 09:54:31 PM »
Great to see DH2 back on the nest and the Y and other nearby branches today.  Lots of calling and lovely pic opportunities, but no views of HD or HM.  And no fish.  Will we get to see DH2 learn to fish the Pond?
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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1234 on: July 07, 2023, 09:56:12 PM »
More pics from late afternoon, evening.   SEDs Everybirdie.   :)
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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1235 on: July 08, 2023, 08:43:01 AM »
I've been watching pair of adults/new adults ? perched in trees around hatchery, but there's no dialog or explanation.  DH and DM?  Feathers seem mottled not sleek - don't appear to be mature adults.  Not sure where they are perched?

Does anyone know answers or have a good explanation of what we're watching?

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1236 on: July 08, 2023, 09:38:33 AM »
Hi, all! Just checking in.... Great to see DH2 living his/her best life, looking good, & learning all things eagle ☺
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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1237 on: July 08, 2023, 10:31:54 AM »
Early morning pics from Decorah - DH2 eating one of the two fish that HD delivered on the front horse pasture tree, beautiful sub-adult spotted in the pines by hatchery, and sub-adult on left, and what looks like HM perched W of N1






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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1238 on: July 08, 2023, 11:37:58 AM »
Lisa, great pics.  Looks like that front horse pasture tree is going to be the "new T1" this summer.  Somebody else called it a spooky branch a few days ago. Whichever, I've added a pic to show the location with a magenta arrow.

DH2 learning how to eat from a large branch, that takes some skill to avoid dropping food.
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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1239 on: July 08, 2023, 11:39:41 AM »
Sub-adult in Hatchery pine, then the same or a different sub-adult perched upstream.
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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1240 on: July 08, 2023, 01:24:05 PM »
Quote from: STLbf on July 08, 2023, 11:37:58 AM
Lisa, great pics.  Looks like that front horse pasture tree is going to be the "new T1" this summer.  Somebody else called it a spooky branch a few days ago. Whichever, I've added a pic to show the location with a magenta arrow.

DH2 learning how to eat from a large branch, that takes some skill to avoid dropping food.

Great pics, STL  :)

Yes, I have heard of that tree being called spooky pasture tree.  It seems like a favorite of the eagles. 
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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1241 on: July 08, 2023, 03:53:25 PM »
DH2 on the Y, like "old home" time.

News story about another young eagle fledging July 7 with a photo on the front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today:  Remember Murphy, the 31-year-old flightless male BE at the World Bird Sanctuary; the eagle that took to parenting an egg-sized rock this spring?  Staff there took in an injured baby eagle and put it in with Murphy in place of the rock. Rocky, as the eaglet was nicknamed, has grown up healthy thanks to Murphy's care. He was released on Friday at Riverlands, a location near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, a prime territory for BEs and water birds near Alton, Illinois.
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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1242 on: July 08, 2023, 10:37:04 PM »
Rocky and Murphy - Front Page, just as I asked.    ;D

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1243 on: July 09, 2023, 09:17:47 AM »
Thanks for the update on Rocky and Murphy! What a good ending to the story!
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Re: Decorah Eagles 2023
« Reply #1244 on: July 09, 2023, 03:15:08 PM »
Arcadia, every eagle returned to the wild is a victory!

HM delivered a fish for DH2 this afternoon about 2:00.  It's all in a rush so better on the rewind.  Grabbing, mantling, consuming, then DH2 perching on the Y as if it was a regular thing for weeks already!
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