Postcard of the Day

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Last night, a big gust of wind knocked the nest out of the tree at the National Conservation Training Center, which has given us eaglecam views of that nest, and ones before it, for years.  This year we'd been amazed to have 3 eggs hatch, and 3 eaglets growing, and getting a lot of fish brought to them, and even while the NCTC and US Fish & Wildlife workers and institutions are threatened, there was this bit of hope, and joy, in those 3 babies.

One of the constancies of nature is, however, death, and all 3 baby eagles died from the 90' fall.

The NCTC folks left the bodies there long enough to be sure both eagle parents had seen.  The parents are clearly stressed, they report, but alive and otherwise seem well.

It breaks my heart.  As do the fans of the webcam are breaking my heart, in the chat at the eaglecam channel.  Go there at your own risk.

But next year.... well, maybe there's next year.  Usually there's next year, and for a long time now there's been next year.

In baseball they say "There's always next year," but it does depend on whether we take care of the game.  Famously in the Star Trek future, baseball is no more.

For a lot of things, there's only next year if we make it happen.