Yesterday (Sunday) we went back to look at the baby eagles, but we brought, who else?, Riotti, Potter's friend Neil, and we also met our next door neighbor, Todd, there. Todd is the one who told us about the eagle next a week or so ago and he stops there often on his way home from work to check out the nest. When we arrived, the babies were in the nest and one parent was clearly visible, sitting out on the branch just a few feet from the nest. Only a few minutes after we arrived, the parent took off and went out of view. He/she didn't return the entire time we were there. We had three pairs of binoculars that offered really good views of the babies and Todd brought his spotting scope, which is nice because it 1) is on a tripod and is still instead of jiggly hands holding the binocs and 2) it gets much closer zoomed in than the binocs. There were a lot of other people in kayaks looking at the nest, a couple polite boaters in small boats who came ashore near us to look, and one idiot who kept zooming past the nest on a jet ski. I mean seriously, this is a protected area, and they should limit that sort of noise. I can see where the eagles would get agitated by that. All of us kids had a great outing, and I think the car ride home, playing games on Riotti's cell phone, might have been just as fun for the young ones as looking at the eagles!!!
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