Here's a link to a scary Mom Berry video. It's only a minute and a half video. A very scary situation was created due to her bad foot/leg and the high winds yesterday.
Drama last night at the Hays Bald Eagle nest. A raccoon came into the nest and startled Mom Hays off of the eggs. The story says that they don't think that any of the eggs were broken -- she had just laid the 3rd egg that day. (In 2008, both of the eggs at the NBG nest were broken when Mom Norfolk was startled during the night.) I'm surprised the raccoon in this video didn't steal one of the eggs -- it certainly looked like it could have... Read the story and watch the video of the encounter at this link.
There was also a pretty incredible encounter at the Turtle Bay nest today. You might recall that last year was a sad year at this nest. You can read my previous posts if you aren't familiar with the events of last year. This video that was taken today shows the new male "Spirit" on the nest incubating 3 eggs when a very large female juvenile lands on the nest. The standoff is pretty wild. He confronts her. Then he looks submissive. I think it's interesting at about the 6 minute mark that he goes back to incubating the eggs while she's still there. His instinct tells him he needs to keep those eggs warm. But the angle of his head while he's snuggling back down onto the eggs shows that he's keeping an eye on the intruder. I don't know what the intruder was doing. She appears to be three years old. This is not the first time a juvie has joined an adult on a nest. Maybe it was hungry, but I have a hard time believing that an eagle makes it to three years old without knowing how to find food for itself... Strange occurrence, not sure what was happening here. This video is almost 13 minutes long.
There's a lot of drama happening at these nests. I think the more nest cams that are available, the more we will see that there are a lot of life and death struggles in nature.
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