Thats awesome! and very relaxing. We have a huge State Reservoir/Park here where the chickadees and titmouses' will land on your shoulder or you hand. Rangers are trying to get people to stop it, but they dont' care. I go frog hunting/photographing in the area. We have Eagles too, but they nest deep in the reservoir where there are no trails/roads/etc!
Your little hummer sounds awesome. Hopefully he/she will make a return.
I know you were talking to the other person, but I linked Jackie and Shadow above as an example of a Bald Eagle call! I'm wishing them success this year, last year was my first time finding them. I hope they have 2 little squeaky ones!
God Bless America! :) I'm glad Jackie, Shadow (the two Eagles) and I could provide! If the nest is near you, that's amazing! Get a pair of binoculars/a scope to watch with. They're a joy to watch and quite squeaky.
They had an egg right around January 14th, a little before the Inauguration, then a broken egg and Ravens took the other 2. I considered it a bad sign, but they've now laid two and seem to be doing okay, so if it's a sign, fingers crossed!
Ohhh! That would be great- I don't know if they'd anything like that during breeding season as almost everyone is on eggs right now, but it'd be pretty cool! I don't think IWS does anything specifically, but another group on the Island may.
lol actually, here, this probably works better :D Older video. Random Eagle intrusion.
lol, actually another fun fact: did you know that all Bald Eagle calls in movies and TV is actually a Red Tailed Hawk call ? Eagles are the best and amazing, but they're very high pitched and screechy and don't sound as vicious as the RTH (I watch a couple of nests during breeding season). So they use the RTH call instead. but yes, I do agree, that would be cool too!
and actually since I can't resist, if anyone doesn't know and is curious as to what a bald eagle sounds like, follow this link (yes, youtube, I know, but the channel is awesome) and scroll back to 8:13am cam time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7utMaDb1W08
did you notice that Trump winks at you in the top icon yet when you move your mouse over it to click back to home? lol. I notice it, then forget, then renotice, etcetc. It's fun.
(edited to fix a few things, sorry for the confusion lol)
Text below for those who don't have a suscription. I think he has the right attitude about it, and hopefully more will include him in the future for DOING THE RIGHT THING!
An attorney who represented President Donald Trump during the recent impeachment trial says a law school canceled a civil rights law course he was going to teach and he was suspended from a civil rights lawyer email discussion list.
“I was hoping to teach a civil rights course at a law school in the fall. We’ve been in talks about it, kind of planning it out. I wrote to them and I said, ‘I want you to know, I’m gonna be representing Donald Trump in the impeachment case. I don’t know if that impacts on your decision at all,’” David Schoen, one of the three attorneys who argued before the Senate, told The Epoch Times.
“And they said, you know, they appreciated my writing and, frankly, it would make some students and faculty uncomfortable, so I couldn’t do it.
“That was sad for me because I really want to go more and more into teaching. I like doing that,” Schoen said.
Schoen, an Alabama-based lawyer recognized for his civil rights litigation, declined to name the school that canceled his course. He likewise declined to name the legal organization behind the email list that suspended him.
“They actually spent 48 hours discussing this with their board and so on. And they decided that they needed to suspend me from the list,” Schoen said. “It’s a very important one to me. It’s very prominent civil rights lawyers and fine people.”
Schoen delivered an impassioned argument on the first day of the trial for why the Senate didn’t have jurisdiction to try a former president. At the conclusion of his remarks, he appeared to be choking back tears as he read an 1849 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow titled “The Building of the Ship.” Schoen told The Epoch Times that he chose the poem—and the quote from President Abraham Lincoln that preceded it—because he views the days of Lincoln as the closest parallel to the current division in the United States.
“I think we’re in a very perilous, divided time. The election itself showed that, but I think all of the rhetoric shows it also,” Schoen said.
Schoen brought his children, aged 15 to 25, into the process of preparing his impeachment trial remarks. His daughter was the one to suggest using Longfellow’s poem.
“I wrote my remarks myself. I wanted to share them with the kids and I wanted their feedback. They were very helpful to me. One of my sons was with me at the impeachment trial,” Schoen said.
Schoen isn’t the only attorney facing repercussions for defending the president.
Attorney Michael van der Veen said vandals broke the windows in his home and defaced the house with graffiti. Van der Veen has had to move his children to a secret location and hire armed guards to protect his home and workplace.
Schoen said that he’s used to threats after decades of practicing civil rights law.
“When I lived in Alabama, I lived behind an electric fence with two German shepherds and I had to carry a gun every place I went. I faced many threats for different kinds of reasons, over the years. But if you let that stop you, I suppose you’re in the wrong business,” Schoen said.
Schoen received the Pro Bono Publico Award from the American Bar Association (ABA) in 1995 for his civil rights work. The ABA handbook says (pdf) he was “recognized for his enormous contribution to bringing about change in schools, prisons, jails, foster care, police departments, and election ballot access in the South.”
The Senate acquitted Trump of the charge that he incited the mob that breached the Capitol on Jan. 6. Schoen said he spoke to the president after the acquittal. He said the president was “very upbeat, very gratified.”
During the trial, Schoen spoke to Trump two or three times per day. He said the president was always “very gracious,” “very supportive,” and “very much appreciated the presentations I made.”
Days after the acquittal, a top House Democrat and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) sued Trump over the Capitol breach, accusing the president of planning a conspiracy to attack the Capitol. Schoen said the lawsuit is “political theater.”
“I don’t think there’s any merit to it. I think it’s an abuse of the statute that it’s based on. And I think it’s just going to lead to further divisiveness,” he said.
I totally agree with you. I hate it, but I agree. That’s why I think he left as he did, He’s also a lot more powerful this way. We just have to hang on however we can, and work on exposing the traitors and getting them out.
Great. Can we get him the FUCK out of office, and then go after Whitmer next?!