Mama Eagle surveys the horizon while watching over her young eaglet. She's looks a little more frazzled than normal, but who can blame her? Those eaglets are a lot of work and who has time to look pretty!

The weeks leading up to this image were very interesting to watch the eaglets as their wings started to fill out, and they began stretching them out and figuring out just what in the heck to do with them. On windier days, they would position themselves into the face of the wind and start flapping and catching a little air at first. And then as they got better and more comfortable, they would really start putting some space between themselves and the nest, especially if they caught a good gust of wind . . .

By the middle part of May the eaglets are probably 4 to 5 weeks old, and you can see in this photo they are starting to get their brown feathers from the top of their heads down through their back (known as the cloak). Their pinfeathers have also emerged (see image below) and their wings are growing at a rapid rate. They are a little past the halfway point in the nest . . .

The February photo from the Eagles and Eaglets calendar is of the two eaglets taken toward the end of the first week of May, staring out over the nest to the south no doubt waiting for the delivery of another meal. They grow so fast, and you can see how fast when you compare this image to the image in the last blog post . . .

The January 2020 photo from the Eagles & Eaglets calendar features one of the adult eagles sitting in the nest next to one of the young eaglets (most likely the female since they spend about 90% of their time early on in the nest). Two eaglets hatched during the 2019 season, and the other one was hiding somewhere, probably a little camera shy . . .