For the last week, the Minnesota eaglets Peace and Harmony have been venturing onto the branches surrounding their nest, and Monday they disappeared, not to be seen all day. Since then, they have come back to the nest, and the parents are continuing to bring them prey to eat. But they have fledged: they have learned to fly, and now their parents are teaching them to hunt and other skills they need to survive.
They'll come back to the nest less and less, and the time will come when we won't see them anymore. It's bittersweet, but it has been such an enriching experience, and I hate for it to end.
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| They look more like a couple of buzzards than eagles. They won't get the distinct white heads of adult eagles for about four more years |
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| Sometimes I think they ought to be called Heckle and Jekyl instead of Peace and Harmony |
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| They've gotten so big so fast, now weighing about twelve pounds, with a wingspan over six feet |
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