DN17 and DN18 turn 30 and 31 days old today! The dynamic duo are tracking and paying attention to life outside the nest: the place that their parents come from and go to, often bearing food, and the world that their parents see, hear, and respond to: birds overhead, animals on the ground, other eagles, one another. It's a wonderful look at the ways in which instinct and imprinting unlock an important behavior and all the learning that goes with it.

Listen in the background and you'll hear the sounds that make up the eagles' world right now: Red-winged Blackbirds, Northern Cardinals, American Robins, Canada Geese, Mourning Doves, a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, and woodpeckers drumming.