secret

images flying by

camp robbers first
then the magpies came
out of the corner of my eye
i saw a great shadow
the raven returned

Spring log 1997

In the spring of 2017 I entered my spring logs, that I kept over the years some years, here. I found another one yesterday.

Spring 1997
feb 2 squirrel active
feb 9 bike riding
feb 22 +5 C
feb 23 rain
february  starting to play  ball and soccer
march 19 mudplay
april 5 it warmed up
april 6 dinner outside

april 7 mud play in our underwear
april 9 +12 C

april 11 transplanted a fuzzy head crocus and saxifrage ( it seems they lived for 10 years and then disappeared)

april 16 transplanted raspberries ( they took off big tie , they dominate the garden in 2020)

april 20 a robin

april 23 transplanted pine trees ( one is a big tree in 2020)

april 24 and 27 did more transplanting, dubious results looking back from 2020)

april 28 still frost every single night

april 28 radishes coming up, seeded under glass.
may 2 robin singing a lot
may 3 blue bird
april 24 snow gone
april 24 grouse drumming
may 2 crocus blooming by the rock
may 15 lots of crocuses blooming on the property
may 15 leaves coming on to the trees
may 21 grey jays have young ones

may 23 ate the first radish
may 24 gooseberrybush blooming

may 25 seeded and planted the garden

may 26 night frost

juvenile eagle

This is an update for previous post.
Wednesday we saw a juvenile bald eagle at the Takhini river at Kusawa Lake. one that is probably a year old.
It very well could be last years eagle. because there is only one adult pair nesting along that stretch of river. And they are indeed having eaglets again. On a much better nest, quite a sturdy platform. I am so proud of them. And so happy to see a juvenile eagle around.
They did arrive much later this year, but as we saw wednesday June 27 2018 all is well!

Has anybody seen a juvenile eagle around?

Yesterday we went to see the eagles again, no sign of the young one. Both parents were still around. The nest had totally fallen apart.

Exactly two weeks ago, it was still there, looking good.

Now Don and i only observe them for a half an hour or so, when we go there. The young one could have been flying around elsewhere exploring the world, who knows.

We have seen a lot of raptors lately, it seems to be a good year:)  in the yard there are the  4 Northern Goshawks. Recently we have seen Kestrels, Peregrine Falcons and we are not quite sure what this is, it was flying over the Mendenhall Meadows

an eaglet in the aerie

Seemingly one eaglet, but we don't know, not much activity today.
A few weeks ago, (we go look once a week) we did see an eaglet poop, that was pretty cool; it lifted up it's bum and shot a white stream ( of poop) over the edge of the nest.
Maybe one more week for it/them to start thinking of leaving the nest.

incredible eagles

"Oh dear" today we made it out to look at our family of bald eagles again; we only saw one adult sitting on the nest, motionless the whole time we were watching 10 minutes. It seemed if the nest was smaller, as if the bottom had fallen off. I feared that all eaglets had fallen out and the lone parent was grieving. Don said, "no she/he is just sitting on them" as it was raining a bit, "to protect them."  I was all sad though, i couldn't imagine those big eaglets all underneath her/him.
an hour later on our way back, i went to check again.
I saw two adults, and! at least one eaglet.
Now looking at the photos from last week too, it is actually obvious that a whole addition was build onto the nest. The shape of the nest not as round but more rectangle, which had give ( for me) the impression that it was smaller, but in fact it was twice as big.

Incredible!