When I first heard there was an eaglet hatching on a live cam.... I was more than a little intrigued. In fact, I wondered how this could be. NOW I wonder how I didn't know that wildlife 'live cams' where an actual thing. I also didn't know how hooked I was going to get. From the moment E9 hatched... I couldn't stop watching. I was never far from my phone, iPad, or laptop.... and, if nothing else, would hear if something were going on. The sound of the wind across the cam mic became eased me to sleep most nights.
The below is what I posted at our SWFEC forums today.
As I write this, it is 10:50am nest time. Do you hear that wind blowing across the cam mic? It's a melancholy sound today. I can't tell you how many times I've fallen asleep at night hearing that, seeing E9 as a tiny dust bunny that we saw only brief glimpses of at first, to seeing him sleep on a branch with or without mom and dad in the nest tree. I'm so used to this sound that it's kind of become a normal sound in my own home and something that has made me fall asleep easily at night... a blessing for someone with insomnia the majority of the time.
But that sound makes me feel a little sad today. Maybe E9 is just a short distance away exploring and trying to hunt, visiting other areas. Maybe he's set out on his life's journey and on his way to being exactly what he was meant to be. I suppose there's always a chance that we'll hear him fly in, squeeing loudly. But there's a chance we may not. I do imagine him, in those last moments before instinct urges him to go, spying something that calls him in the far distance and heading out, squeeing.....
That sound, the wind, it preceded his hatch... and it will be one of the last things we hear before the cams are shut down until next season. Even with the sound of the wind the nest tree and area are infinitely more quiet in E9's wake.... and that quiet.... I can hear that too.
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