Africam Black Eagle Day 33, Berry College Bluebirds Hatch Watch Continues, Dyfi Osprey Day 29,31&32, Loch of the Lowes Osprey Day 37,39&40, White-bellied Sea Eagles, White Rock Eagles Day 71&72, Necropsy Results For The Catalina West End Chick, Disaster At The Hog Island Osprey Nest, 38 Year Old Bald Eagle In The Wild

The Africam Black Eagle is growing. I'm just waiting to see some feathers start to come in...

Hatch watch continues at the Berry College Bluebird nest.

Mom Dyfi was doing her best to shade her chicks today. She was panting, trying to keep cool.

The Scottish Wildlife Trust's Loch of the Lowes Osprey got some new bling today. All three were ringed (banded) yesterday and two got transmitters. You can see the rectangular box of the transmitter on the left-hand chick. You can see the blue band on the left leg of the center chick. You can see the antenna coming off the back of the right-hand chick. Here's a link to their blog post about ringing and placing transmitters on the Osplets.

The White-bellied Sea Eagles let us view the eggs during a nest exchange.

They had a Squonk-A-Thon! These pretty birds have the funniest, harshest call...

I grabbed some video of the Squonk-A-Thon (1:09):

Here's a later nest exchange.

Are both of the White Rock Eaglets on branches here? I think maybe so...

I mentioned in a previous post that the Catalina West End chick died in the arms of the biologist while it was being banded. The necropsy results are in. Here's a link to Eagleholic's blog post about the necropsy results.

 

I keep forgetting about the Hog Island Osprey nest. It's a beautiful nest and I blogged about it once in 2014 and once in 2013. I keep meaning to follow and blog about this nest, but then forget after a year. They had tragedy strike this year. A Bald Eagle raided their nest and stole the two babies. They were about a month old -- about the size of the Dyfi babies. Sad for them. Maybe next year I'll remember to watch this nest. The host of the web cam explains what happened and includes a video of the Bald Eagle taking the babies. It's amazing how it scooped up a baby the same way it scoops a fish out of the water. Don't watch though if you are sensitive.

 

The oldest known Bald Eagle in the nation was banded 38 years ago and was recently found deceased -- likely hit by a car. Here's the story.

Nest Cam Round-up: White-bellied Sea Eagle, Africam Black Eagle, Dyfi Osprey, Hog Island Osprey, and White Rock

It's been pretty days at the White-bellied Sea Eagle nest. This is from 8/4:

And from 8/5:

 

 We got a nice close-up.

I never noticed the "mustache" on these birds before viewing these close-up s'caps. That's all I can see now... Too funny!

The Africam Black Eagle has been hiding out lately. First from 8/4:
 

The chick moves a little and I can see a beak sticking out:

Then from 8/5, still hiding from the camera with a leg stretched out:

About a half hour later, there's the baby! Finally...

But on 8/6, it's back to hiding...  It looks like part of a prey item in the nest:
 

At the Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust's Dyfi Osprey Project nest one of the fledglings was eating a fish while the other watched.

I found the Hog Island (Maine) Osprey cam today. This nest had 3 chicks hatch -- the oldest two have already fledged and the youngest is on fledge watch. Here's some s'caps from today -- pretty setting:

They are all at the nest because the parent had brought a fish to the nest. The young closest to the camera has the tail. I assume the rest of the fish had already been eaten.

That's the parent in the center of the nest. You can distinguish the adult from the youngsters because the adults' feathers don't have the white tips.

Later in the day zoomer gave a close-up:

And a pretty look in the evening. Looks like a painting:

I found and blogged about this nest over a year ago and then forgot about it for this year. Hopefully, I'll remember and be able to follow this nest next year!

Here's another of Christian Sasse's pictures of the White Rock nest -- posted here with his permission:

Locations for Bald Eagles Camellia and KE, Neat Picture, Hog Island Maine Osprey Cam

Reese's last location for Camellia was on 7/20, and our boy hadn't gone very far since then. Since today is 7/23, I checked the tracker for his most recent check-in and it still says 7/20. I guess that's why Reese hasn't posted a location today. Camellia got his transmitter on May 5, 2010. I hope he isn't running out of juice!

There is also an update posted by Reese for KE's location. She hasn't gone too far either. Maybe it's too hot for flying and our babies are spending a lot of time perching in a shady spot.

Check out this picture I found. Do you see it? (Darn it. I always double check my links and it opened a different picture. So, I've updated the link. But if it doesn't open a picture of a purple flower with a surprise, try moving a few pictures one way or the other. This morning it was picture 23, now it's picture 26. Grrr.)

I have found a fantastic Osprey Nest Cam. The picture is as crystal clear as the NBG Eagle Cam used to be. The nest is on Hog Island, Maine. There are two youngsters that are doing a lot of wingercizing. I look at it on a page where it's embedded, but you may do better by googling it. This is a fantastic cam: beautiful scenes and a great picture. And look at all the stuff in this nest. Osprey are the biggest collectors of junk! Check out these screen captures!

Something has caught their attention.

 This picture shows the buff colors of the babies, front and back:

Nice close-ups with this cam:

I think it's pretty universal. Hot babies seek whatever shade they can find. And Mommas are happy to oblige.

They take turns wingercizing:

And sit quietly enjoying the view:

Feeding time for one of the babies:

Until the other comes forward to be fed:

Here's the whole family. You have to be quick to catch Dad on the nest. He will drop off a fish and leave. I tried for a better s'cap, but he flew away: