Ethel, yesterday & again today

Two trips across the 520 Bridge in the last 24 hours. Yesterday no sign of Ethel on our Westbound travel but an hour later she was perched on the light post.....it's almost always that same one. The one she shared with Eddie. RIP Eddie. We miss you. And just now we caught sight of Ethel flying back to her nest with food for her baby. Or babies. We have an Oregon Junco nest in the wild blackberry thicket at the base of one of our huge fir trees. This is the second round for this junco mama. She had a brood that fledged in April, and now she is sitting on four little blue eggs. Juncos love being on the ground. They build their nests at ground level, and they seem to prefer to walk rather than fly. It's cooler here now, but she's doing a good job keeping her eggs warm. Soon we will have baby juncos to watch.