Yesterday morning, after a sweet night together in their favorite nearby roost tree, Jackie and Shadow decided to give their nest some good attention.
Shadow arrived first, before the sun was even over the horizon, and immediately took a good look around at the mess some of those misbehaving sticks had created. Then he dove straight into sprucing up the most obvious offenders before Jackie arrived.
When Jackie flew in a few minutes later, she could see that there was too much disarray for Shadow to manage all on his own. So, they both went to work, moving this stick here and that one over there, trying to get things back in order. One stick was so troublesome that it took both Jackie and Shadow to pin it down to where it belonged.
Jackie continued to work on the little sticks near the front of the nest while Shadow took on the big guy in the back. When Shadow turned around to see things a bit more organized, it merited a quick beaky smooch of thank you to Jackie.
With that 'sticky' task out of the way, they both took a little break. Jackie took some time for look around from her sideview limb, as the gorgeous sun popped over the horizon and Shadow scanned the neighborhood to make sure all was in order…
…and when Jackie came back from her high perch, Shadow left the neighborhood watch to her as he had noticed some more stick chaos that needed to be handled right away. Jackie headed out to the back porch while Shadow finished his observations. And by the time Shadow posed on the front porch for a brief close-up, he had spent just over an hour on his morning nest duties.
We’ll keep an eye out for more visits as we inch closer to this year’s nesting season. Thank you for watching!
Sandy
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