Maxx's Maine Camping Blog

I told you Tami was obsessed!  She was back down with her big lens taking photos on Saturday and twice on Sunday!

I really didn’t mind though.  It was so cool how we’d gotten lucky enough to watch from the mating to the getting-the-nest-ready phase.

Where the new nest is located, the eagles can sit up high over it, which you’ll see makes for lots and lots of good poses!

We watched the eagles hop down . . .

or climb down into the nest over and over again to fluff it.

They brought in new “stuffing”  several times too . . .

and each time they fluffed some more.  We’re sure they wanted it to be juuuust right!

When Tami and left those eagles last Sunday, one of them had finally settled down low into the nest for the first time since last May.  We think that’s a good sign the eggs have been laid . . . or were about to be.

Wish them luck!

Tami rushed in the door after school, threw her files and computer and lunch box on the kitchen table and said, “I saw an eagle overhead!  I have to get to the lake!”

“But I made a pot of coffee for you-” Dave tried to say.

Tami gave him a quick peck on the check, grabbed her camera and was out the door.

Poor Dave.

“Tami’s a little eagle crazy, huh?” I asked.

“Oh, I’m used to it by now,” he said.  “She’ll be back when she gets hungry.  Or cold.  Whichever comes first.”

I trotted after her and found her happily taking pictures of one solitary eagle, standing guard over its nest.

Up by the house, it’d seemed like a pretty nice day.  But on that point, the wind was whipping so fast across the lake, it was pushing Tami sideways and wiggling her camera, even though she was using her monopod to balance it.

I stood beside her to help shelter her and that camera of her.

Click, click, click went the camera, when suddenly, the second adult showed up .  . .

At first, we thought it was the female, because she fluffed and poked at the nest for at least ten minutes.

Buuuuuut – we were kind of wrong about that.

The eagle then flew up to the branch on the right.  It preened and preened and preened.

It called out.

And then HE made his move.

“Ooooooooooo!” I said, hiding my hands behind my eyes.

I could hear Tami taking picture after picture. “Give them some privacy!” I scolded her.

Tami marked today’s date on the calendar, because now we know it will be 5 to 10 days until they lay their eggs.

And 35 days or so later that the eaglets will be born!

Which means we’ll see their little gray heads bobbing up and down in the nest early May!

I can’t wait!  How about you?

Check this out.

Here is a picture Tami took of the nest back on February 7th.

And while she was in Florida, taking pictures of egrets, herons, pelicans and osprey, the eagles were very busy back here at home!

See how much higher it’s gotten?

Tami says, if she was a betting person, she’d bet everything that we’ll be watching a set of chicks again this spring!

The big question is, will there be one . . . two . . . or another rare triplet set??

Time will tell, campers.  Time will tell.