Southwest Florida Eagles Day 13&14 E8 Removed From Nest For Treatment, Berry College Eagles Hatch Watch!, Africam Black Eagles Update, Great Backyard Bird Count

At the Southwest Florida Eagle nest, E8 was removed from the nest and taken to CROW, the same place that treated Bald Eagle Ozzie. They did find that he was tangled in fishing line. I do understand that sometimes fishing line breaks. If an Eagle then catches that fish and takes it to the nest, it brings the fishing line with it. Unfortunately, as long as people fish, that's a danger. But I do want to urge people to discard of fishing line properly. A lot of fishing spots have receptacles just for fishing line. If so, please use them. If not, please collect fishing line and place it in the trash. Here's a link to a video showing the removal of E8 from the nest. Here's a link to a news story with an interview of Heather Barron, CROW Hospital Director. She did the actual removal of E8 from the nest. She also removed the fishing line and a couple of fish that might have been the source of the fishing line. Hopefully, E8 will have a full recovery and be returned soon to the nest. Here's a link to CROW's initial assessment of E8 and some pictures. Here's my last s'cap of the two babies before E8 was removed:

The Berry College Eagles are on hatch watch! I think we should see a pip by tomorrow night. I got some video today of some Back-up Singers (1:37). Here's some s'caps from today. There was a dusting of snow this morning: 

No pips so far:

There is an update for the Africam Black Eagles. There are 3 pictures included. There is a side-by-side comparison of the nest before the big storm and after the big storm. Wow!

The Great Backyard Bird Count is the weekend, Friday through Monday. You can observe for as few as 15 minutes, or longer if you like.