Celebrating Yanni celebrating his Acropolis Tour

Last Sunday night, my husband, niece, and her husband saw Yanni at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia. It was my third time seeing Yanni at Wolf Trap. This time he was celebrating the 25th anniversary of his Live at the Acropolis tour. It’s rained a lot in Northern Virginia this summer, so I was worried about that, but the weather was perfect. We didn’t have to suffer the heat and humidity as in past concerts there. I had told my niece that Yanni and his orchestra would blow them away and he didn’t let me down. He played all my favorites, spending two and a half hours on stage. And yes, he blew us away. All I can say is WOW!

City of Manassas 4th of July fireworks

The City of Manassas 4th of July fireworks were excellent this year. The past two years were disappointing to me -- cloudy and overcast in 2016 so after the first few fireworks, all you saw was smoke. And last year it rained so I stayed home for the first time ever. But this year, Mother Nature cooperated and Manassas brought it -- I think they were the best ever! During the finale, you could feel it in your chest and the ground felt like it was shaking. And the noise was sooooo loud. It was too cool.

This was the aftermath

Good eagle watching today

I spent three hours at the Manassas Eagle habitat today. You really don't realize how long you're there until you get back in the car to go home and look at the clock. It's so much fun to watch them.

Manassas eaglets were laying low today

It was very windy today so I wonder if that had anything to do it it. The eagle brought in some dry grass before we left.

Feeding time for Manassas eaglet

I could only see the Manassas Eagle in my lens so was happy to find out I had captured this picture of it feeding the eaglet tonight

Manassas eagle watching today

Spent some time at the Manassas eagle nest today. I had been watching this one in the nest for a half hour when it called its mate home.

It took less than one minute before I saw the other eagle fly in and join it's mate in the tree.

It was pretty cool to watch! I expect to see an eaglet or maybe two in a few weeks.

Manassas Eagles have an eaglet!

Well, I haven't seen an eaglet yet but I stopped by the nest yesterday and witnessed the parents feeding something in the nest. Then I watched one of the eagles as it carefully waddled into the nest as it sat down. I've watched enough eagle cams to know what that means!

Manassas Eagle fly by

We drove over to the Manassas Eagle nest this morning. One was sitting low in the nest, hopefully keeping an egg (or eggs) warm. The other was perched on a tree limb but unfortunately flew off as soon as we parked. We waited a while to see if it would come back but it wasn't meant to be today.

Bye Bye Bao Bao

Bao Bao, the giant panda from National Zoo, left Washington DC for China yesterday. My office happens to view of the toll road the FedEx truck took to get to Dulles Airport so we were able to watch as it passed by. A whole group of us waved bye bye to Bao Bao as she passed by.

Funny shaped fence post

I looked out my back window this morning and thought ... that post looks awful wide ... then I realized it was a hawk. It was clearly looking for breakfast. Every time a smaller bird flew in to one of my feeders, it would get in a crouch stance, ready to pounce.

Manassas Airport Fox

We recently headed over to the Manassas Airport to check on the eagles. They weren't in their habitat so we drove around the airport and spotted these beautiful creatures instead.

First time visit by a fox

I looked out my back window this morning and spotted this fox in the back yard. I'm not happy about this because we have a bunny rabbit that we keep outside during the day. It acknowledged the feral cat that hangs out but then walked around to the front yard and headed down the street.

Manassas Eagle still here

The construction hasn't scared them away yet

Manassas Eagle habitat landscape is changing

It's just sad

Manassas Eagle habitat invasion

Thanks to social media I'd heard that construction was taking place on the land directly in front of the Manassas Eagle nest so I had to go see for myself. It's hard to see in this photo but the nest is in the tree with the branch off the right side. You can see the large pile of trees already taken down laying directly in front of the nest tree. The nest is located on park property so they won't take that tree down. Unfortunately it's right on the property line. Hopefully it won't be damaged during construction.

There used to be a line of tall trees to the right of the nest but you can see from this photo they're gone now -- probably some of the trees in the photo above. The eagles liked to perch in those trees. I have many photos of them doing just that.

And yes, there was an adult eagle in the nest when these photos were taken today.

Manassas eaglet prances

Manassas eaglets

Manassas eaglets are growing