[birdky] Olive Branch eagles, etc.

This is a really skinny pine tree and branches are at a premium, but they 
support a big eagle nest  at least three years old and today three of the 
occupants.  The adult was on the bottem branch, an equally sized chick was in 
the nest and the other chick was poised at the top of the tree pumping its 
wings as if to take off any minute.  On second thought  it plopped down next to 
its sibling and decided to enjoy the safety of home for yet another day.  

Slept on the porch at my cabin and enjoyed night calls of the chuck-will's 
widow, barred and great horned owls and the early morning orchestra of bird 
calls.  Highlights were two Wilson's warblers singing along with a lingering 
yellow-rump, at least five female American redstarts, and a flock of cedar 
waxwings.  

Melissa Easley
Murray, Ky.

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