6-6-2022 Spirit’s Adventures

Spirit had an adventurous day as always… She started off this morning with a Steller’s Jay harassing her, and like with Fiona, she watched it, followed it, and seemed ok with it until it started dive bombing her, then she had enough. It is very common for smaller birds to harass raptors. Raptors are a danger to them, their nest, eggs, and chicks. We believe there may be a Jay’s nest in one of Spirit’s perch trees we see on the wide view cam (cam 2), they have been harassing her there and probably followed her to the nest tree. Later in the afternoon, Spirit did a nice close flyby on cam 2, we slowed it down a bit because if you blink, you’ll miss her! Jackie came in with a fish for dinner and guess who was hot on her tail, squeeing, mine… mine… mine… all the way to the nest, perfect landing though! Spirit claimed her dinner self-fed for quite some time and then joined mom out on the front porch…. But wait, Jackie sees leftovers and can’t let anything go to waste. She does a graceful ho