The Harrison Bay Eagles were doing more nestorations today. Having spent the night in the nest tree, they were moving about the nest bright and early. (Dark and early?)
I like seeing them side-by-side. Pretty!
They were working together again to place the sticks.
And they were still going beak-to-beak to settle differences. Dad is still standing tall and reared back to get away from Mom's beak in the s'cap below. She is starting to turn away here.
Look at the size of this stick! If Dad is 3 feet from head to tail, that stick is at least 4 feet long!
The White-bellied Sea Eagle chicks are still miles apart in their development. SE16 is still flying back and forth between the camera tree and the nest. Here, SE16 just landed to the left of SE15.
Check out this video of something new. SE16 does an exit, stage right! Then SE16 Misses The Landing! You can hear her crashing through the branches below the nest. It's scary when this happens -- this is how wings and legs get broken... Does she make it back ok? Watch the video to find out! (3:25)
There are new pictures of the Africam Black Eaglet Kendi. She is a stunner and these pictures are amazing! The parents (mostly Dad) are showing her aggression -- both for training and to make her feel unwelcome so she will leave the territory and strike out on her own. That's the way it is with the Black Eagles. They are not a warm/fuzzy species, with their siblicide and tough love... But check out these pictures, they clearly depict the interaction between Kendi and Dad. Amazing!!
SE16 fledged yesterday after I stopped watching that nest for the day. I just didn't expect a fledge so soon. I mean, we are in the window, but I didn't see any indication that SE16 was ready to take the leap. But then, she started showing indicators, like standing on the edge of the nest and looking like she had spotted somewhere to fly. Then she did a couple of false starts. She has really raced through the development milestones from branching to fledge! And SE15 hasn't even branched yet. Here's the video of the time leading up to fledging and her flying back and forth. SE16 Fledges (21:46):
The Loch of the Lowes folks have a new tracking update for FR3 and FR4 on their blog.
The Soddy Daisy Bluebirds are filling up the nest box. I got two faces...
...3 faces...
...all 4 faces! Well, parts of all 4 faces. Good enough!
Dad White-bellied Sea Eagle will come to the nest and fly off with a fish. This morning when Dad arrived at the nest, Mom got up and took one fish...
...and took another fish so Dad couldn't fly off with either.
Dad left and Mom fed the chicks.
The chicks are sizing each other up for some bopping.
This is right before they did some hair pulling.
Dad came back and grabbed a fish and left with it.
Mom came around for this feeding and we can see the chicks.
A family s'cap!
These babies are so cute!
Dad was having a hard time trying to figure out how to brood these growing babies. He made several false starts and ended up just hovering over the chicks.
Mom must have come back because he got up, grabbed a fish, ran across the nest, and took off. And sure enough, Mom appeared a few minutes later. Here's Dad taking off with the fish.
The Africam Black Eagle chick and Mom were sleeping and I thought I was out of luck. But then the baby stood up and I was able to get a s'cap. I couldn't get the cam to come up this morning, so all I've got is an infrared s'cap from tonight...
It looks like it was a beautiful day at the Dyfi Osprey nest. Two babies were on the nest when I check in, with the one on the left eating a fish.
I could only roll back the Harrison Bay Eagle nest video back 3 hours and during that time, nobody came to the nest. At one point we were shown the pretty view.
Grass is growing in the nest!
Tonight is a blue moon! So cool that it's on the cam! A blue moon is when you have two full moons in the same month. We had a full moon on July 2nd. So, tonight's full moon is a 'blue moon'. We get a blue moon every few years. August of 2012 was the last blue moon. Enjoy it!
I only saw one of the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Loch of the Lowes Osprey today. I don't see an antenna, so I'm thinking this must be FR2.
The Soddy Daisy Bluebird nestlings aren't doing much at this point besides sleeping, flopping about to a new position, eating and pooping.
The White-bellied Sea Eagles enjoyed a beautiful day today. Their lives are getting ready to get busy! I'm going to start watching for hatch on 8/4, even though they say later...
I was home this morning and was able to get some good views of the Africam Black Eagle chick. There was a big stretch before standing up.
I love the leggings on these birds!
Potty break...
Being shy.
The flight feathers on the wing are coming in great!
Here's all three Dyfi Osplets in the nest.
Then one-by-one, they took off.
One of the Harrison Bay Eaglets was at the nest this afternoon.
The Eaglet did a call that started to sound like an adult calling. It's like the Eaglet is going through Puberty (1:30):
This is the same Eaglet, hiding in the shadows...
There were quite a few comings and goings at the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Loch of the Lowes Osprey nest today.
I think they are enjoying their new-found freedom.
And with this departure, the nest is empty.
The Soddy Daisy Bluebirds are just hairy blobs at this stage. They aren't being brooded much during the day, probably because the temps are so warm. That allows Mom to go foraging for food for her babies.
It's less than a week for hatch watch at the White-bellied Sea Eagle nest. I'm so eggcited I can hardly stand it! The White-bellied Sea Eagle chick is the cutest thing ever! For now, incubation continues...
Nobody was home at the White Rock Eagle nest today, but the light was pretty and the nest was... GONE! It has been falling apart. And last year a lot of the nest fell away. But now it is completely GONE!!!
A lot of people don't know what a Bald Eagle sounds like because so many times (in commercials and movies and TV shows) the scream of a Red-tailed Hawk is dubbed in. Here's an article about it and you can play a video of each bird calling. Play the videos! Way cool!
