handmade_ghost ,
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More baby from my irl timeline today: I spent a long time this morning watching and listening to this juvenile eagle through a little windowpane in the pines where eir parents built their eyrie. E was bleating a fair bit (parents were out hunting), then became totally absorbed in watching, fascinated, as a trio of white pelicans started wheeling overhead. E then began stretching and flapping eir wings excitedly, clearly wanting to be up there emself. 🥹

Photo of several large limbs of Ponderosa pine--a wonderfully puzzle-piece-barked and ruddy brown pine--crossing the frame of the photo to create a window of sky just above an eagle's neat, which is hidden in the heavy blooms of green pine needle brooms below. Against the backdrop of the early morning sky as seen through that "window" is the figure, in profile, of a juvenile bald eagle. Eir body with its somewhat streaky brown and cream breast and dark, cloak-like wings are a perfect match to the pine boughs surrounding them and face to eir left, away from the sun. Eir face, darker and richly nutty in coloring, is looking over to eir right, into the sky and sun, a bit of shag around eir crown and sharp, dark capping to eir yellow bill, dark brown eye intently tracking something off camera.
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