This may be the last footage and flight we have of E23 who was last seen on May 3rd at 2:36pm flying over the pond and heading east. E23 may still be in the area, across the street at Yonder pond or someplace out of view of the cam. The average time for E’s to leave the area is 127 days and E23 was 124 days old on May 3rd. It is bittersweet to see E23 fly off and disappear from our sight. We know that that the time for departure is close when E23 misses food deliveries on the nest which E23 has done recently. We will watch and wait to see if E23 will return again to the nest tree.

The footage begins with E23 waking up on the upper branch and will fly over to the CSS (church side snag) and perch for awhile before flying off east. E23 is then seen flying N/W over the pond and circling back toward the west side of the pond. A large bird flies E to W, then E23 flies from the Office oak and follows west.

E23 makes a joyous squee arrival back to the spike branch at 2:31pm. The shrikes are dive bombing again. E23 drops to the nest and flies off to the office oak. E23 does not stay long in the office oak and flies off east, then back towards the pond and circles around and flies east again till out of cam view.

Stay safe E23 where ever you are! Time will tell over the next few days if E23 has left or not. I am already missing our Squee 23 Thank you for watching!

To see the highlights below, please click on the timestamps to advance to that portion of the video.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 OPENING E23 wakes up on Upper East Branch
00:21 E23 flies to church side snag
00:49 Cam 1 view of E23 to CSS
02:10 Pond cam view of E23 on snag
02:56 E flies off snag to east
03:16 E23 flies N/W & circles back toward west side of pond
04:30 E to spike squeeing
05:06 360 view of E
07:06 Cam 1 view
08:27 E23 flies off nest to office oak – shrike watches from attic
08:55 Pond cam
09:44 E23 in office oak
09:55 closeups of E23
11:30 E23 flies off office oak in slo mo
12:03 E23 does a flyby in front of office oak
12:32 E23 leaves office oak and heads east, turns and goes towards pond
12:48 Last view of E23 flying east – upper left corner
13:00 No sign of E23 in nest tree for evening

Thank you SWFEC , hosted by Dick Pritchett Real Estate, for allowing us the opportunity to view these amazing eagles.
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Link to cam 1: https://dickpritchettrealestate.com/southwest-florida-eagle-cam/?cam1

Link to Cam 2: https://dickpritchettrealestate.com/southwest-florida-eagle-cam/?cam2

Link to cam 3: https://dickpritchettrealestate.com/southwest-florida-eagle-cam/?cam

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