Mid-Atlantic Gardening: MidAtlantic bird watching for spring, 0 by coleup

coleup wrote:
One of my second cousins was a falconer and brought his Perrigrin to a family reunion. They are quite small as birds of prey go, but absolutely attentive to any and everything around them moving or still. Very awesome to be able to stand next to cousin as his bird flew to his gloved hand. I think I was eight or nine but I remember it clear as day.

My pic below is of one of the eagles I see almost daily. He (the larger of the nesting pair) was spreading out his wings to dry off some of the wet heavy snow fall yesterday. A favorite perch is the tall dead pine just right of center. At the tippy top you can just make out a dark blob that is him. I'm about 50 feet from tree and tree is about60 feet tall. Eggs ahould be hatched by now and soon should be able to glimpse some fledgling activity at the nest site. Really cool to hear them call to each other as one or the other of them circles the nest site.