Slow and Easy Day

After working all morning yesterday Harriet and M15 take it easy this morning.

I find harriet and M15 in the same spots as they were last night. Just after 6:00 am they are vocalizing. I think they were having a conversation on what they were going to do today.lol Both drop down into the nest and do some areating and maybe a ckeck list for the day. Harriet hops over to the porch branch and M15 still in the nest. Harriet does a bit of preening. I guess she still had to get a few feathers in place from her bath at the pond last night. There she goes checking out her talons as usual . Must be an Eagle thing.  M15 flies up to the attic branch.Both perching and looking around. Harriet hops back in the nest and M15 takes off to the west pasture treeline and grabs a stick for the nest. Great job! Looks like Harriet takes the rail from M and placed herself. Some beak-kissing then just sitting next to each other. Good to see this close bonding between the two of them. Like when they went to the pond last night for a bath together. Donna told me all about it. She said it was very heartwarming to see how M15 watched Harriet and how She does her bath ,then M15 would copy her like "ohh so that's how you do it" . Then M15 would do the right wing dip ,then the left wing dip then dunk the head and come up and flap the wings and shake all over. M15 saw how Harriet takes HER baths.  Then Donna said they were side by side and both were taking their baths together. How awesome. We have never seen Ozzie and Harriet do that together. One at a time yes but not at the same time. Now this does not by no means , mean M15 didn't know how to take a bath. Surely in his few yrs before he met Harriet he took a bath. It just means that Our Harriet is the Queen of baths and showed M15 the way she does it.LOL
So any how with the stick placed and the beaking done,M15 heads off for another stick from the west pasture. Another rail placed then both rest for a bit then M15 up to the attic branch and Harriet still in the nest. Now we're thinking it just might be about time for "whoopie" but Harriet has other plans. She heads off to one of the front pins.Vocalizes a few times then here she comes with her pine branch.

 














M15 drops down into the nest to help Harriet  but she already has a place for this in mind. She places her branch and M15 sits and waits. M15 then head out towards the front pine  grabs a long thin bit of moss,out over the road then across the road to the tall pine. Now what in the world is he doing. Even Harriet is watching and vocalizing like she is asking too "where are you going with that ?" He sits there for a few then drops down curvers around and heads back to the nest with a stick and not the long strand of moss.                                                                                                                          
       

           










The rail placed M15 back up to the attic branch and Harriet stays in the nest. Then all of a sudden, harriet takes off to the East and swoops down by the road  then back up like she saw some thing. Then she comes back right over us from the  front of the Church. As we all had our backs turned , M15 left and we don't know which way he went. Harriet flies up to the outer branch left and vocalizes a few times. She keeps looking past us to the E S E. Maybe she see's M15.

Harriet is looking around vocalizes a few times then heads off towards the  SE past the two Norfolk pines dips down then I lost sight of her. Donna and I stay a bit to just to see if maybe ,just maybe they might come back.

 With the busy day they had yesterday between, nestorations, mating, eating on the nest and a bath ,I guess they decided to go relax some where nice and quiet. Watching them become sooo bonded and comfortable around each other is a great thing.It puts a big smile on mine and Donna's face. They are becoming more and more of a couple as time pass's in my opinion.
I can think back now and see so much of this behavior in Harriet and Ozzie that it just warms my heart to be able to watch a new partnership/relationship grow and get stronger each day.