Harriet shows Her dominance

Of course when I get to the nest they are not in the tree nor any of the other ones that I can get photo's of. So I wait to hear them. Sure enough Harriet vocalizes and M15 right along with her. Aha haa they are in the front pine. Sounds of possible mating, not sure because I can't see them. They are closer to the driveway side. Done with what they were doing , Harriet flies to the nest and does some aerating and M15 flies to the dead tree closer to us. He's looking around and breaks off some of the vine that is growing on the tree. M15 flies out and around very close to us then up to the attic branch with his piece of vine. Not sure but it looked like he dropped it in the nest. M15 then drops down with Harriet. M15 is behind Harriet and I can't see him. Maybe he was laying down in the nest checking things out. M15 then hops up to the attic branch ,Harriet stays in the nest. Both just looking around checking out their territory then Harriet takes off for the west pasture treeline. She goes from one tree to the next and I lost her in the trees somewhere. I stand and wait for her to come out from where she is and sure enough here she comes with some pine and a long strand of moss. Again M15 drops down to help the little woman out and again I can't see him behind Harriet..LOL
Now it's M15 turn to get something for the nest. Out he flies ,past the front pines and up he goes to get a branch on the fly. He missed that one but got another on his way past one of the other pines.

Good job M15 ! Back to the nest with his branch. The branch is placed then up to the attic Harriet goes then M15 follows a few mins after. We have mating again this time they are behind the pine needles and again I'm in the wrong spot.

 M15 seemed to stay on Harriet a little bit longer than other times. I guess making sure the "package is delivered". Oh and this reminds me of Santa Clause 3 where Santa says "It's time to deliver the packkkagggge" when Miss Clause was pregnant.https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0gtxFRHZxwA&h=OAQFCsweJ&__mref=message ......  

 Well  "if "  and I say "if " they mated in the front pine we have a second mating already this morning. Remember ,I couldn't see them, I can only hear them.
M15 leaves the attic branch and it looks like he tries to get a branch from the front pine and missed but keeps heading across the road to the tall pine. he leaves there and goes and finds himself a nice big branch to bring back to the nest.Harriet is vocalizing . I guess she likes the size of the branch he is bringing in .

 Well M15 sure is becoming a good nest builder. I always had faith in him. It's just not an instinct to them but a show me how to do thing. With Harriet's yrs of helping Ozzie sure has helped M15 out. Could you imagine if they were both brand new at this? It would take them awhile I would think. Both learning together. M15 flies up and pulls the long stick up over the side of the nest then lets go of it and drops down into the nest at the same time so he doesn't lose the branch over the side. Amazing to watch this. He then grabs it with his beak and is pulling it into place. Not satisfied with the stop he put it in ,he then pulls and moves it to another spot.

While doing this I see he is moving that V branch that him and Harriet tried to work with from yesterday. Donna told me all about it. So that branch is moving and looks like it might fall so he moves the other rail to a different spot. Now they are set ..for now any way. Satisfied with a job well done ,M15 goes up to the attic branch with Harriet. Well Harriet all of a sudden decides to show her dominant side and kicks M15 ,wings a flapping and almost got on top of him. My,My,My  I saw this once with Ozzie and Harriet . She sure does let them know who is boss....LOL
Poor M15 as soon as Harriet was done he took off for the front pine. I'm not sure if he was sitting there checking him self out or looking for something to take back to the nest. M15 finally leaves the pine and is heading across the road way past Publix pond SE. Harriet stayed on the attic branch watching him leave. After some preening and just sitting Harriet also leaves around 8:39 am heading in the SE direction.

Harriet in front M15 behind her. What a good looking couple.

My Morning starts off with Harriet and M15 sleeping. I'm watching the cam before I head out. Both have their heads tucked in and are side by side.  Aw. 4:13 am  M15 wakes up and vocalizes which wakes Harriet up and both are vocalizing. Ok ... So  now there's a bit of stretching and Harriet goes back to sleep, M15 turned around. Finally M15 goes back to sleep.

4:45 am Both wake back up and are vocalizing. Of course I can't see anything but whatever it was they stopped vocalizing after a min or two. Time for me to get ready to leave. I arrive at the nest my usual time. Sitting in the truck for a bit and Donna arrives earlier than usual.  Always good to see her. We get set up and wait for daylight to break. Both Harriet and M15 drop down into the nest and aerate. Then Harriet to the porch and M15 up to the attic branch. Some more vocals then M15 drops down on Harriet but wasn't a very good landing so off he went to the side of her. Well so much for a little whoopee this morning.  M15 and Harriet stayed on the porch branch. Harriet did a bit of straightening out of her feathers and M15 just looking around. M15 left the porch branch heading NW towards the poles. Harriet vocalizes then she heads off in the same direction that M15 just went. About an hour later here comes Harriet and flies to the west treeline. She is looking around and finds herself a nice pine branch and here she come to the nest tree.                          

As we were watching Harriet coming back M15 flew in and was laying down in the nest. LOL I didn't see him until Harriet had placed her branch and M15's head popped up . They both sit there then M15 hops up to the attic branch. Both are looking around. Harriet stretches her wings then sits back down in the nest. Harriet then goes to the veranda and M15 is vocalizing .Ok maybe they will try it again? No Harriet heads over to the front pine and gets her another pine branch. Boy Harriet has gotten a lot of pine lately.                                                                                                                           

While Harriet was getting her branch,M15 had left the attic and went and got himself a branch.            Well here comes M15 and Harriet s still in the nest as he is coming in for a landing. Poor Harriet had to duck so she did get knocked over by M15 . You'll see Harriet on the far left side of the nest by the veranda in the photo with her head way down.                                                                                               

                                                                                          

               Both get their rails placed then sit next to each other for a bit. M15 up to the attic again ,Harriet still in the nest.
Harriet takes off to the west treeline again and tries to break off a branch. It wasn't budging. No matter how hard she tried.She flew past another tree and got a stick on the fly and back to the nest she came.
When I was watching two Red Tail Hawks in the west treeline, M15 took off again so I 'm not sure which way he went until Harriet hoped on the porch branch and was looking NW. The two RTH were playing in the tree to the west and Harriet would over there ,vocalize then look back to the NW.

Harriet stayed on the porch branch for awhile then took off to the SW flew around the cell tower then landed in the pine at the parking lot. Went up a couple of branches then off towards the SE  as M15 flew right past us heading in the same direction. I stayed for awhile and finally gave up . No one was coming back soon.                                                                                                                                      

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.

M15 is Back !!!!!!

So I turn on the computer click on the cam and who do I get to see . Harriet ,well at least I think it's Harriet. So I check out face book and I hear vocals so I switch back to the cam and it's Slim so I think. OK that so it's early I can deal with the mix up. It's time for me to head to the nest. I arrive get set up and take a few pics. Something Is just not setting right with me I don't know what it is but would find out soon enough. Who I think is Slim drops down into the nest and Harriet is steady vocalizing.I'm giggling think she still doesn't want him in the nest .He hops up to the attic branch and Harriet is still vocalizing.  Both Harriet and what I think is Slim drop down into the nest. They do some aerating then Donna and I  hear the unmistakable vocals there was mating in the nest.It was too
 fast and still a bit dark to get photo's.But still this seemed a bit off for Donna and I ..
 By this time Bob,Jeff, Dave and Wilbur have shown up. Harriet and what we think is Slim are vocalizing and looking around.Both Donna and I commented several times that Harriet was very vocal this morning and wondered what she was seeing. He goes back up to the attic branch then back down in the nest again with Harriet and  again with the vocals. Harriet goes to the veranda and he goes back up to the attic branch. Harriet still vocal and both looking around. he then joins Harriet on the veranda and we are waiting to see "bonding/mating " again.Still we haven't caught on that this is not Slim. Boy were we slow this morning. Harriet goes back into the nest and he follows her. Both aerating again then Harriet hops over to the porch branch. Still with the vocals. from Harriet. By this time a few others have arrived. Bob, Jeff and Dave. Harriet still on the porch being very vocal then he leaves the nest ,flies around the pond and scares off the other bids that are there and flies to the right pond tree.
Who we think is Slim sat on the pond tree for a bit and Harriet still vocal. The  he flies back to the nest tree.
This is when it hit me that this is NOT Slim but M15. Holy Shit ! I let everyone know and they all checked their photo's and sure enough it's M15 . Well I'll be. No wonder it looked like Harriet first thing this morning on the cam and things just weren't sitting right . Know wonder Harriet was so vocal this morning too. Now we really have the story's going about why Harriet had been so vocal . She was fussing at M15 for being gone and how she had to put up with the young'en Slim that stopped by on and on. Poor Harriet .I wonder what she was really thinking about all of this.
Well now we are scrambling to get photo's to prove this is M15. Donna and I know the makers. We let the big lens know also so they can get a better photo. M15 does a PS right into the nest and Jeff just started laughing and said that sealed the deal for him. M15 always did a PS into the nest.. Donna is already by the sidewalk with Wilbur and Dave so I join them after Jeff leaves to go home.
We have a better view of M15's back side. Sure enough we get the shot we need to tell it's M15. We already know it wasn't Slim because of too much white on his head and tail. How in the world we missed this is beyond me.
Even the eyes , how did we miss that. Boy oh boy ....
M15 drops down into the nest with Harriet again. Both aerating then Harriet back to the porch branch and M15 up to the attic branch. Harriet still vocalizing off an on . She roused her feathers then goes to the branch above the attic branch. Those unmistakable vocals start again and M15 hops up next to Harriet but not on top of her so Harriet side kicked him not once but twice . OMG we are just laughing. Harriet would do this to Ozzie . Boy she sure is running on hormones. If her time is still the same with M15 as it was with Ozzie ,she is ready.
M15 still doesn't hop up on Harriet and so Harriet goes to her branch just a fussing and M15 goes way to the other side of the nest tree. Ohh the laughter from all of us. Harriet is sitting looking to the NW  with her back to M15 and he is sitting looking to the SW then turns his back on her. More laughter from those of us still watching. Not to long after this M15 fies off heading in the ESE direction. Harriet watches him leave then preens some then something caught her eye and she is looking n the same direction that M15 took. Soon Harriet leaves heads over the Church then in the same direction as M15 . I watch her circling then out of sight.
Wow what a morning. I just hope Slim is ok and left without a fight. M15 looks good. Have no idea where he has been or when he came home. Of course it had to be some time last night and no one really noticed it was him. Good to have him home. Slim is young and hopefully he will not put up a fight for the nest and territory. M15 spent 6 months  with Harriet and chased off others. This is his home more than it was Slims.  But again only time will tell if Slim comes back.