What a busy news day! First Amanda at WCV posted this note..."October 27: NX’s last “check-in” was on October 11; her last reported location was on the Little Wicomico River, near Ophelia. Wildlife Center staff consulted with the VDGIF biologists who fitted NX with the transmitter to inquire about other Bald Eagles in Virginia with transmitters — they confirmed that the other eagles that have been outfitted with these “cell-phone” transmitters routinely go in and out of cell coverage areas — sometimes for weeks at a time.
Since one DGIF biologist is near Ophelia, she offered to go out to the last known coordinates of NX just to check out the area.
On October 26, she visited NX’s favorite hang-out. Apparently the pine tree was fairly “white-washed”; the biologist also found a pile of fish bones (old and new) underneath it and a feather from a juvenile Bald Eagle — signs that someone had definitely been hanging out in the area! When she first arrived, the biologist also flushed a juvenile eagle from a nearby tree, but she was unable to tell if the bird was wearing a transmitter.
The Wildlife Center staff will continue to check NX’s transmitter data daily and will report when we next hear something. In the meantime, nothing to do but to wait for NX to “phone home”. "
Then, just as she was typing into the chat to check the update, NX finally phoned home!"October 27 12:37 p.m.: After 16 days of not checking in … NX checked in! It turns out that over the past two weeks, NX has been in the same general area of the Little Wicomico River. She did venture off on another trip from Hanson’s Cove to Vir-Mar Beach. This trip is very similar to the one she took at the beginning of October, when she was out of cell range for five days [see October 6 posting below]. After looking at the data on where NX was yesterday, we can conclude that she was not the juvenile eagle that the DGIF biologist flushed from the woods near NX’s ”usual” spot."
Then there was a post on FB that Barbara Melton had gotten pictures of NX! Upon review by CCB it was determined that it was actually her big sister Azalea from 2009!
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FB Album by Barbara Melton
And Camellia from 2010 has been hanging out at NBG for a few days now. Phew! I think that's all!
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That is a lot for one day!! All good news though! NX, Azalea and Camillia. Dats alotta eagles!
And, yes, this is me ducking 
