BS: The Thrill of a Springtime Aerie

Subject: RE: BS: The Thrill of a Springtime Aerie
From: KT
Date: 25 Mar 01 - 07:41 PM

And early this morning, I went to the front door, wondering why I had not yet heard my canine friend's usual "Okay, I'm finished, you can let me back in," bark. When I opened the front door, I noticed he was turned towards the woods that border our back yard, tail wagging a mile a minute and a huge smile on his face. "What in the world....?" I thought. Stepping out onto the patio, I heard what he was wagging at. The Winter Wrens, who have the sweetest, chattiest little song, have returned to our trees and were serenading him. He too, was a happy camper! Welcome, spring!! KT

Subject: RE: BS: The Thrill of a Springtime Aerie
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 24 Mar 01 - 10:18 PM

Thanks, Ebbie.

Spud

Subject: RE: BS: The Thrill of a Springtime Aerie
From: Big Mick
Date: 24 Mar 01 - 10:47 AM

The geese came home to the lake this week, singing their wonderful, throaty songs on high, and the daff's are poking their heads up out of the soil. Sure we still are getting the odd little flurry and cold snap but the rebirth is near. I sat on the rock on my hill the other night with the old Low D, pondered Jim's passing, my grandson's birth, and the signs of the coming of spring.............I would tell you one more time, that the world is always turning towards the morning...

Wonderful post, Ebbie.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: The Thrill of a Springtime Aerie
From: Morticia
Date: 23 Mar 01 - 06:57 PM

I drove over the South Downs on Tuesday with the snow and the wind howling up a blizzard.....but here and there were primroses, and daffodils and pussy willow, pushing pugnaciously through the snow.....can spring be far behind? Please tell me no.

Subject: RE: BS: The Thrill of a Springtime Aerie
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Mar 01 - 06:42 PM

'Gin, you eat eagles???

Subject: RE: BS: The Thrill of a Springtime Aerie
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Mar 01 - 06:11 PM

Damn, Ebbie, your getting my hunger stirred up...

Subject: RE: BS: The Thrill of a Springtime Aerie
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Mar 01 - 06:06 PM

Ah, Bert- but if there is one starling on a utility pole can other starlings be far behind? LOL!

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: The Thrill of a Springtime Aerie
From: Bert
Date: 23 Mar 01 - 05:36 PM

Wonderful, the best we get here is a starling on a utility pole.

Subject: RE: BS: The Thrill of a Springtime Aerie
From: Noreen
Date: 23 Mar 01 - 05:33 PM

Wow, Ebbie! Thanks for telling us.

Noreen

Subject: The Thrill of a Springtime Aerie
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Mar 01 - 05:29 PM

We tell visitors to look for a golf ball in the trees when they are looking for an eagle. That's a bald eagle's head; attached to it you'll find the rest of the bird.

I live on a hill and from one side of the house I look out and up onto a densely wooded mountainside perhaps a quarter mile away. Today I saw something I didn't know was out there, an eagle's nest. Looking out my window this morning I saw a larger than usual patch of white in the trees.

Upon fetching my binoculars I found it was a pair of eagles. One was perched a little higher than his mate, who was calming grooming herself, and he sat there, moving his head alertly in all directions. From time to time he lowered his head and picked up sticks and laid them down again. Then he raised his head and his throat pulsing, gave a defiant, territorial cry, silent to me at this distance and with my window closed, for all the world like a wolf howling. He was one happy camper.

It is spring.

Ebbie