7-11-2024 Short But Sweet
After almost a week of missing them, Shadow and Jackie decided to spend the night Thursday in their favorite roost tree that we can see from the nest camera…and after a snuggly night nearby, they both dropped by the nest for a little morning check-in.
Shadow arrived first, pre-dawn, and of course, immediately noticed a couple of sticks that had gotten feisty and moved out of their proper positioning. After fixing those, he scanned the rest of the nest, looking for offenders and correcting their obviously inappropriate locations.
With the nest back in order Shadow spent over 20 minutes surveying the neighborhood in each direction. In the middle of changing his view to look out the back door, he noticed and realigned a few more wayward sticks. And he spent time preening in between all of it – both he and Jackie are going through their annual molting season and look a little rugged, sometimes with tiny down feathers sticking out in various places or one of their larger feathers sitting a bit askew.
As Shadow watched off the back porch, with a Stellar’s jay squawking at him, Jackie finally arrived through the back door. Shadow immediately hopped back down into the nest to help her rearrange the furniture in the main room.
After 5 minutes of teamwork, Jackie was apparently satisfied with the arrangements and hopped out the back door. Shadow, though, stayed for another half an hour. It seems he had not finished his back porch neighborhood surveys and needed to finish those before he could head out for the day…and while he did that, he offered some nice closeup poses as the sun put on its own show coming up over the top of the mountain.
Both yesterday evening and tonight, Jackie and Shadow spent the night again snuggled together on their favorite nearby roost tree. It’s always nice to have them nearby and watchable.
Sandy
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