When your parents are the loudest and most-feared Red-Shouldered Hawks on the block, but you're still figuring out how perching works. #birdnerd. Suspected offspring of Leviticus & Phaedra, our resident #RSHA pair. Durham, NC. August, 2025. #chipnotes

Someday, Merlin will be good enough to translate the exact expletives these Eastern Bluebirds hurled at a squirrel who tried to claim their rain shelter. Until then, we only know they are speaking in EABL. Durham, NC - October 2025. #chipnotes #birdnerd #EABL