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["Shirley A. Price" <armstg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

March 29, 2008, about 3 p.m., went to Horton's Ford Rd. in Hawkins County to 
check out the eagles' nest.....which is in a sycamore tree across the river 
from the road.....   What a wonderful time to be there!   I suspected that Mama 
had "hatched" because of the way she was sitting higher in the nest.....and she 
kept kind of "nudging" down in the nest.....
Watched her for about 30 minutes and decided to give it up......  On my way 
west on Horton's Ford Rd., met "Daddy" flying upstream.....turned around ASAP 
and went back to my spot.   Had just put my binocs back on the nest when he 
lit.... The two of them together were spectacular....they kept poking around-- 
at this point, Mama was standing up in the nest--  and I could see at least two 
little flyff balls kind of bobbing in the nest....both adults were feeding 
them.   Then Mama flew off upstream and Daddy continued to perch on the nest 
and seemed to still be feeding.   Again, I decided I must go home so went east 
on the road to the turn-around spot.....looking for Mama all the time up the 
river.   By the time I got back to my spot,  she was back on the nest, settled 
down....and I saw Daddy leave the nest and fly downstream where I spotted him 
perched in a tree on the opposite bank of the river a few hundred feet 
downstream......   It was a wonderful experience!   Shirley Price, Rogersville