A favorite photo of Phoe

When Phoenix died of avian pneumonia she was much bigger than this. But this is how she lives on in my heart as a sweet young eagle I happened to discover because I typed in "bird webcams" on google. The webcam was on Hornby Island, near Vancouver. The thing of it was, it had sound. So early on the USA east coast I'd "fly" over to Hornby Island and watch the dawn three hours after I'd gotten up. You'd see the light on Hornby Island (while it was 8:30 already here) and then Mom Hornby's white eagle head feathers, then Phoe peeping. Dad Hornby would show up with a fish for everybody's breakfast. And little Phoe would be fed with great gentleness by Mom and Dad.

A picture of Phoenix, the Hornby Island Eaglet

Ok so here's Phoenix with her never-to-be-hatched nestmate aptly named by some unknown FB scholar as "Dudley."

Updates from a pretty place

I have long since pulled the suet cage, but all of a sudden, summer is over and soon (hopefully not TOO soon) it'll be freezing here again and time for suet. So I'm going to recap winter and spring. Spring was not a spring here but rather for me spring was Hornby Island, BC where a lovely, endearing eaglet brought over 11,000 people together on Facebook and then died just before fledging on July 14. She broke hearts across the world. I had taken many "baby" pics of her so some of them will appear here.

But this is a photo I took from our kitchen window in Gloucester, MA during the long, snowy winter of 2010.