E23 is having the time of its life! At 83 days old, E23 has discovered the pond and made it into the water to take its first official bath! YAY! 🎉🎉

E23 flies to the pond while F23 is eating a fish on the bank. E23 then fly hops up the bank playing and runs to the water & looks at its reflections & turns around & goes up the bank. E23 finds a stick and drags it with its talons and runs back to the water and bottom dips in the sand! E23 will put its toes in the water testing it out, takes a few sips and then real bottom dips! E23 will do wing dips and head dunks, splashing around and even just soaking in a Calgon moment.

After E23 was finished with its bath, it flaps up the bank and over to Mom and does more hop flaps to the cement pipes and blocks. M15 is on the DSPS watching E23 having fun and he flies to the pond to have a sip. E23 rushes over mantling at Dad lol E23 will then fly back to the nest and dry itself off and preen until squeaky clean! What a great day for E23 and Mom and Dad too! Thank you for watching!

Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Opening E23 to the ground by the pond. Muscovies swimming
01:36 E23 fly hops and plays on the ground
02:29 E pounces on a stick ,dragging and flapping with talons
03:54 E runs to the water & stops!- Back up bank
04:47 Looking at reflection in water
05:17 Back up bank
06:08 Runs to water and stops
08:25 E23 does first bottom dip is sand
09:03 E23 puts toes in water & takes 1st sips
09:33 2nd bottom dip
11:06 E23 wings shoulder dips
12:17 Soaking
12:48 Dunking and splashing
14:11 E flaps back up band
15:41 E flies over to Mom
16:05 E flap hops to cement pipes & blocks
18:24 M15 flies from DSPS to water E23 runs over mantling
19:30 M15 taking sips- E23 flies off around pond & back to attic
20:30 E23 squeaky clean preening

Thank you SWFEC , hosted by Dick Pritchett Real Estate, for allowing us the opportunity to view these amazing eagles.
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