Harriet is up before the Rooster

5/9/15

Well this morning Harriet was up before the Rooster was...LOL  She went to the nest real early and it was still a bit dark out for good photos so I just sat and watched her. PB came to the nest a little bit after Harriet. I tried watching on my phone but that didn't work well either the signal kept  going out. But I did get to see someone pulling on the strap like E6 did before it went out again. Of course you all know who it was.... Harriet LOL..... I didn't find out until I got back from the  nest.
Harriet did do some small nestorations and brought in some pine again. She's bonking PB . It looked like PB was trying to help again.  I think I'll just add tomorrow to this.Right now the way things are going the best I can do for now is to take a video with my camera. I found out how to turn the sound off so now you don't have to cover your ears.. LOL

5/10/15 Teaching Day for PB........

This morning Kathy met me at the nest. Around 5:30 am Kathy said there looks like someone is in the nest already. Yep sure enough Harriet drops down to the nest and is checking it out. Harriet also pulls on the strap..LOL it must be a family thing. Ozzie started it and now Harriet is finishing it up I guess.

Good Morning vocals from Harrit . This always puts a great big smile on my face and I tell Harriet Good Morning too.  PB arrives to the nest tree on an upper branch to the right as I am looking at the tree from the ground. Still to dark for me to get photo's so just sit and watch. Harriet goes up to the attic branch then as she leaves ,she tries to get some pine but didn't and heads for the R-pond tree with crows in tow. They dive bomb her a few times and then Harriet tries to break a branch off but ends up - upside down and no branch( I didn't get a photo,but I did get a short video of it ) then flies to the west pasture tree.

There she gets a small stick . Harriet goes back to the west tree and this time she brings in some moss. Both Harriet and PB are trying to arrange the moss just right but some beak bonking is going on. PB up to the veranda and Harriet off to the west pasture again this time PB goes too and lands on the ground. Harriet in a tree looking for a stick and PB on the ground looking for whatever. Harriet brings in another stick and PB brings in some grass/nesting material .

PB with grass

I truly feel that this is teaching time with PB. This is the first time I have seen him bring in anything to the nest.  Harriet is teaching as she goes on  with her day- to-day  routine. PB in my opinion is just a young'un and will learn what he can until Ozzie comes home. PB will leave . I see Harriet doing what Ozzie always did, bringing in the sticks and building and PB doing what Harriet did, sit and watch at times then maybe bring in a few things. Role reversal.   Amazing!
They continue to move the new stuff around and beak bonking. With that done they are both sitting back by the spike branch just looking to the west. Around 7:15 am Harrit leaves first headed towards the norfolk pine with 2 crows following her, but goes past it .We know there is another one she sits in but just can't see it from the Church side. I know it's been seen on cam 2 tho. PB leaves just a short time after Harriet in the same direction.
Kathy and I drive over to look for the other pines and find Harriet in one and PB in another. What a beautiful place they are at. I would soo love to live there and wake up to Eagles sitting in my backyard every morning.

Harriet 

PB

Kathy and I leave there and head back to the Church. As we are sitting there waiting to cross the street ,,Harriet flies past as if she wanted to see us again. We watch her and she goes past the Church then to her left. We pull up in the parking lot and as I'm getting out of the truck, there goes PB  headed in the same direction. Kathy leaves and I istay just in case Harriet comes to the nest. Kathy finds them both st Bob's place. Kathy told me when she got back that Harriet  vocalized when she got out of the truck. I'm telling you ,she does know some of us . This was around 8:30 am. We stayed around for a couple of hrs then we went home. 

I truly believe that  Harriet is teaching PB. He is definitely a young'un and doesn't know anything about nest building. PB will learn all he can before Ozzie gets home. I sit and watch and what I see is a role reversal . Ozzie was the one that brought in all the sticks and Harriet did some but mostly the soft material and some times just sat and watched Ozzie or left... I see Harriet doing the sticks and PB just watching . This is the first time I have seen PB bring in anything for the nest.  Only time will tell how much PB will help.

What we are seeing sitting there and on the cam is what Ozzie and Harriet have always done. They don't leave the area. We never paid any attention before when they left the nest area. We ALL assumed they were headed out to the river or as some say they left the area.. NOT SO ! 

They have never gone anywhere, We just never looked for them. So we may not see them for hrs on end , or maybe not for  a day or two but that still doesn't mean they left the area. Look early in the mornings and late in the evening , you just might see them. 

I'm hoping when Ozzie gets back and he see's all the work that needs to be done on the nest, We'll get to see more of them this summer.     

The morning starts off with the Rooster crowing and Harriet flying into the nest. What a great way to start off the day. Harriet looks to be checking out the nest and PB flies up to the attic branch.  PB drops down to see what Harriet is doing and Harriet beak bonks him. LOL What a way for PB to start off his day. From what it looks like ,both are aerating the nest and there is a lot of beak bonking going on. I don't think Harriet likes PB doing this. PB gives up and flies up to the attic branch again out of Harriet's way. Harriet sits there for a few, then flies to the front pine. I can see her moving around ..not sure if she is trying to get away from the crows that followed her or getting something for the nest. A couple of Min's later out from the tree she comes with a small stick with a long bunch of moss stuck to it and of course a crow chasing her. Harriet is trying to fly up to the nest tree but the crow is making it difficult for her to get the right angle. So around the tree she goes, out towards the front pines, back by the old cam 2 tree and still can't get to the tree because of the crow. Harriet gives up and heads for one of the front pines again. There she leaves the stick and moss and flies back to the nest with just a small bit of pine. As Harriet lands in the nest Pb drops down like she has piece of food. Harriet lets him have it with a few beak bonks.LOL this is not going well at all for PB. It looks like they square of a couple of times and PB puts his head way back at one point ...lol he looks like a duck in one of my photo's. I guess Harriet is really letting him know who's nest this is and who is boss of it.

PB left ,Harriet right

After a few Min's of this ,they settle down and try to place the small stick. Finally PB has had enough and goes up to the attic branch again.

 

Harriet sits looking towards the west , then leaves the nest tree. She lands and a crow almost knocks her off the branch. Whoa ! That surprised me but I'll bet not as much as it did Harriet . She regains her balance and finds her self another small branch with pine and heads for the nest. Again PB drops down and this time it looks like he tries to help Harriet place the stick. Done with that and PB , Harriet goes to the veranda then up to the attic branch then leaves towards the Norfolk pine but goes past it to another tree we can not see from where we are. PB leaves in the same direction also .  Around 7:45 am I spot Harriet in the Norfolk pine . As I was watching Wskers taking a video of Harriet sitting there ,in flies PB and lands to the left of her. They sit there preening and just relaxing. I look back over at the  tree and just one of them is there now. Looks to be PB . This is at 8:32 am. I turn to check out the nest tree and west treeline nope Harriet not there .I look back over at the Norfolk and now PB is gone. Well it was time for me to head home . They will be back and forth from that pine and wherever else it is that they go to over there.  It will be like this for awhile until Ozzie gets home. I glad to see Harriet is trying to rebuild the nest. It gives me reassurance right now that she is still calling this home even though she doesn't know Ozzie will be home soon .Harriet is moving on doing what an Eagle does best............... 

IT SURVIVES !!

Harriet moves forward

Harriet flies from the front pine this morning and lands in the nest. Something we haven't seen her do in a while. With E6 out on his lifes journey, Harriet now can safely enter the nest without getting her feet attacked by E6  looking for food. Harriet stands there a few seconds then in comes PB to the porch branch then into the nest. PB does a bit of aerating ,more like maybe looking for food. Harriet watches then there was some beak-bonking going on. I think Harriet is letting PB know this is still her nest and she is the boss. Harriet leaves for the west treeline. PB follows not to long after. Harriet comes back with a small branch with pine on it. Aww Harriet is attempting to do some nest building while Ozzie is still at CROW. PB is still in the west treeline. Harriet doesn't stay long and leaves out towards the Norfolk pine which she goes past possibly because she still had a crow chasing her. After about 5 mins, PB leaves the west treeline and heads for the norfolk pine flies past it also. Maybe they went to the pond for breakfast or another tree in that area.
Eventually we spot one of them in the norfolk pine. I'm thinking it's Harriet . Harriet leaves then one is back again this time it looks to be PB. It's such a distance that if they are not sitting just right I can't get a good ID on them. Who ever it was leaves again. Before I left  this time I could tell it was Harriet back in the norfolk pine around 9:06 am.  I have a feeling my days will going like this until Ozzie gets back. I do hope Harriet continues to stay in the nest area and try to do some nestorations . Right now it seems like PB is not in the same how should I say it ..oh frame of mind as  Harriet. She is doing what she has always done with Ozzie after the kids have left the area and that's to start rebuilding the nest. He seems to be a young 5 yr old... maybe just turned 5 yrs  and has never done this before. So we really can't fault him for not helping Harriet out or stealing E6's food which really helped E6 in keeping his food covered, well sometimes....
This is all a wait and see right now. See what Harriet does or doesn't do, see how long PB will stay around now or after Ozzie gets home. There is no doubt in my mind that Ozzie will reclaim what is his. Harriet , the  nest and his territory. I  like some many of you hope and pray to God that Ozzie doesn't have to fight hard for what is his. I have read that sometimes it takes both mates to run another Eagle out of their area. So maybe that's just what it will take for PB to leave......


Oh and before I forget....... I will answer this Q just one last time... PB is FV . I will always call him that until Ozzie's return and if Ozzie can not be released and PB stays around and  is renamed or it stays FV by SWFLEC then and only then will I call him FV. PB stands for PublixBoy. I called him Publix because of where he would go when Harriet chased him out of the nest area. Wskers added the "Boy" saying we need two names so she can just use the initials when texting her report to the mods. Less letters to type..... This name of FV was changed from PB, from  what I understand because a couple of people didn't like the name that I and another photographer came up with to help out a mod that couldn't ID any of the visitors that were showing up at the nest. Between her and I we had photo ID's on all that showed up to compare , to see if we had repeat visitors or if they are new ones coming into the area. We had at least 7 to possible 10  different Eagles of different ages and genders show up. How we knew the genders.. by size and vocals. Yes the vocals. We could tell the males from the females by the vocals. The males all sounded like Ozzie ( Ozzie is a  bit rasper/hoarser than the other males ) and the females like Harriet. There was one female we thought was Harriet at first but then we realized, she wasn't big enough to be Harriet. We had anywhere  from 2-2 1/2yr olds all the way up to full adults.....  So I hope this answers the burning question of who is PB .