3-8-2024 Talkative Day
As Jackie was up and rolling her eggs during yesterday’s beautiful sunrise, she sent out a brief announcement, probably making sure no one missed the sunrise, telling Shadow that she was awake, and letting the neighborhood know that she was here and on duty so no one had better mess with her. Then she let Shadow sleep in before she left egg-duty to him a few hours later.
While Shadow was sitting peacefully on the nest, a nearby raven called out its presence in the neighborhood. Shadow immediately put that raven on notice to stay away.
In the midst of his warning, Jackie brought in a bunch of fluff. She first started to plead her case to take over nest duty, but quickly turned her priority to emphasizing Shadow’s warning that this nest is fully protected and off limits. After all these loud warnings, any potential intruders got very quiet.
Shadow only gave Jackie a little over an hour before he showed up with own bunch of fluff. When he began diligently arranging it around the nest bowl, Jackie couldn’t hold back her soft complaining about not really wanting her turn to be over. She did get up for Shadow to take over, but kept complaining all the way out the front door…
…then Jackie returned with a branchy stick, way too soon, according to Shadow. He immediately argued about the idea of getting up, then turned away and ignored Jackie's presence to make his refusal quite clear.
When Jackie was on the nest later, she must have detected the instant that Shadow caught a fish…she started calling out long before he was even close to the nest, making sure everyone knew that the dinner being delivered was “mine, mine, mine!” As usual, Jackie kept up her reminders as she got up to claim her fish. Shadow kindly and quietly let her have the fish and went out to the front porch to let her eat in peace.
During some of our classroom zoom calls this week, we got questions about the sounds eagles make, so we thought everyone might like to hear some of the talking that Jackie and Shadow do with each other and out to the world. If any teachers would like to request a zoom meeting with their classroom for someone from our team to answer your students' eagle questions, please email us at [email protected].
Sadly, there are no new updates on the status of Jackie and Shadow’s eggs. Thank you all for your continued curiosity, patience and appreciation of nature and its process.
Sandy
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