Bald Eagle Ozzie Back At CROW, Harrison Bay Eagles Nestorations, White-bellied Sea Eagles Day 54, Last Night's Super Moon Lunar Eclipse

Bald Eagle Ozzie, the male resident of the Southwest Florida nest, has been scrapping with M15, who is trying to become the resident male. Ozzie is back in the hospital with a broken toe on each foot and various other injuries. No other breaks though. I fear that he may lose his territory if he is kept away from the nest for another extended period of time. Here's a link to CROW's web site, the animal hospital where he is getting treatment.

I was hoping for a better view of the Harrison Bay Eagles than just this shot of one of the Eagles in the big pine.

I got my wish with first one in the nest tree...

...then both in the nest and working together (?) to do some nestorations.

Here's a video of the evening's nestorations (7:36):

The White-bellied Sea Eagle chicks come to the food now.

They are both filling out nicely.

Zoomer gave us some nice close-ups of the chicks.

What a pretty face. I can see why the adults are so beautiful!

I thought they were so cute, peeking out through the branches.

Peek-a-boo! SE15 is almost completely blocked by SE16. 

I had a lot of cloud cover last night, so I only got a few pictures of last night's Super Moon Lunar Eclipse toward the end of the event:

I only got a few brief glimpses of it while it was red, and there were so many clouds I couldn't get any pictures during that phase. So check out this slide show of last night's Super Moon Lunar Eclipse.

White-bellied Sea Eagles Day 53, Mourning Doves, Lunar Eclipse Tonight, 2016 Garden of Eagles Calendar

The White-bellied Sea Eagle chicks are starting to take little hops now while wingercizing.

The chick is elevated a little bit here.

The parent is doing the "chicken neck" here, looking hard at something.

I took this picture through my kitchen window. It was really windy due to a nor'easter blowing through. The Mourning Doves are taking shelter in one of my Earth Boxes.

There is a total lunar eclipse tonight! It starts here in Southeast Virginia at 8:11PM, peaks at 10:47PM and finishes at 1:22AM. I think I'm going to have cloud cover...

Tomorrow at 5:00PM Eastern time is your last chance to pre-order a 2016 Garden of Eagles Calendar.

Africam Black Eagle Day 97 Fledge Watch, Big Sur Condor Day 110 Feeding, Dyfi Osprey, Harrison Bay Eagles, White-bellied Sea Eagles Day 28 Taylor Swift's Song "Wildest Dreams" to Benefit Conservation, Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse Coming 9/27!

The Africam Black Eagle Kendi was pretty active today. It won't be long before the nest will be empty.

There was some wingercizing.

And some contemplation of the world beyond the nest.

Here's a short video of Kendi. The waterfall is in the frame. (2:46)

The other cam on the Big Sur Condor cam is the area when they put the carcass of a stillborn calf for the Condors to feed. Condors stay in groups, but there is a hierarchy. The Dad of the chick being raised on cam is the most dominant and gets to eat first and pick the best roost. Their wingspan can get up to 9.5 feet! In the bottom of the right hand corner, barely visible behind a Condor, is a carcass. That's why they are all congregating here.

They look like a bunch of bald little old men...

I think they are gossiping.

I finally saw a feeding! I was hoping that the recording I left running when I went to work had captured it so I could post video. But, I came home to find it frozen... But I'm going to try to get it posted tomorrow. (I've got a trick up my sleeve!) Here the baby's beak is in the parent's mouth who is regurgitating food. Condors don't have talons to carry food. They just have nails... You can help name this chick.

Dad Dyfi Osprey was sleeping with one eye open.

It was windy and he had to put his other foot down for balance, allowing me to confirm that this is Dad.

And he's off!

Soaring among the clouds.

I saw one of the Harrison Bay Eagle parents in the tall pine, where it is spending the night. I wonder if they leave their territory once their babies have left or if they stay in the area year round...

 

The southern nests are getting ready to start a new season and it probably won't be much longer before they begin their nestorations for the new nesting season. It looks like some new sticks have been brought to the nest and are laying on top of the grass.

 At the White-bellied Sea Eagle nest, we see the invention of the down pillow! So cute! Those feathers are coming in fast. They are going to look like completely different birds soon.

They were picking at each other a little bit, which I would expect when they are eye to eye like this.

I see some more pin feathers coming in.

Taylor Swift just released a new video. This is a still from her "Wildest Dreams" video. What bird is that? It's only shown for a fleeting second. Anyway, she is going to donate proceeds from this song to conservation in Africa. Nice! (This is a screen capture to show the bird. There is no video to play. Hit the link above if you want to see the video.)

 

There is going to be a Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse on the evening of 9/27! This should be way cool! This is the first one since 1982 and we won't have another until 2033...

Berry College Eaglet Day 52, Nest Cam Round-Up: Hays (Cold Temps Coming Tonight), Southwest Florida, Two Harbors, White Rock, Berry Bluebird, Loch of the Lowes (People Need To Stay Out Of Exclusion Areas!), Bald Eagle NX Checks In, Lunar Eclipse Last Night

The Berry College biologists are saying that their eaglet is a female. They say that it is as large as Dad Berry and still has time to grow. I'm going to wait and see how much more growing it does! (Bald Eagle Camellia fooled us all! Pegged as a female but then stopped growing -- hence the female name on a male Bald Eagle!) Today is day 52 for the Berry College eaglet. There was a wet start to the day, but it didn't last!

 
Two noteworthy developments that I saw today. I saw some wingercizing today -- with little hops! This was the first time I've seen any hops!

Look at how much the feathers have grown it:

Yes, the sun came out. That means difficult shadows... But the eaglet turned this way and that, showing off what I believe is a full-grown beak (first the feet, then the beak):

This is the other noteworthy development today. The chick picked up a nestover that really wasn't worth much. I think it was just bone and feather... But still, the chick stood on it and tried to tear a piece of food off of it. This was the Berry College eaglet's first real attempt to self-feed that I have observed.

There was some concern at the Berry College nest yesterday because the Mom disappeared for a while. But she's back now, so this entry is in hind-sight. I took a s'cap of her in the nest on Sunday and a couple of s'caps of Dad in the nest yesterday while she was missing. It's funny, last night when I saw the baby in the nest by itself late at night, I switched to the approach cam to see if I could spot an adult perched in the nest tree and couldn't be sure because there is so much noise on that cam. But I didn't really think much of it, since the eaglet is large enough now that typical predators of chicks and eggs are no longer a real threat. (I read someone's comment today to "save the baby" -- not necessary imho.) And a check this evening finds the chick is home alone, but I think it's ok:

Everyone at the Hays nest was huddled-up today trying to keep warm. There are cooler temps pushing across the country... It's supposed to get down in the mid-20s tonight at this nest -- which is concerning. I hope Mom and Dad Hays work together to keep their brood warm overnight... They are all a bit too big to fit under Mom and the littlest (13 days old) doesn't have thermal down yet.

Oh my goodness. Look at this! I decided to check on this nest as I write about my concerns and I find that Dad Hays has joined the huddle! These parents are awesome! I'm holding my breath that by working together these two can keep their brood warm overnight.

The Southwest Florida fledgling was napping in the nest today. What a nice surprise to find someone home during daylight hours!

The Two Harbors baby was enjoying the sun:

It looked overcast at the White Rock nest today. But still pretty!

I got a quick peek at the eggs when the adult changed position. Not much of an egg roll except for the movement that occurred when the adult stood up and laid back down...

Shhh... Eagle sleeping:

Bald Eagles don't sleep really hard when they are incubating. Sure enough, a few minutes later, her head came up and she looked around. She was calling out as she looked around and I tried to get a s'cap of that. But just as I took the s'cap she threw her head back to call out more forcefully:

On the Berry College Eagle Cam page, below the picture, is a link to their Berry Bluebird Cam. They now have an egg!

At the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Loch of the Lowes Osprey nest, two people entered the exclusion area yesterday. The people were quickly removed from the area by the 24/7 volunteers that try to keep the Osprey safe. But still, the Mom was startled off of the nest and was gone "for quite a while" and even upon her return delayed incubation for another 10 minutes. I don't know if the egg was exposed long enough to make it not viable. It is so important to stay away from nesting birds during the breeding season! I got to see the egg tonight during this egg roll, but I wasn't quick enough to get the s'cap of anything more than Mom hunched over doing the work:

And then, just that quick, she laid back down:

Bald Eagle NX has checked in. Does anyone remember Rosier Creek?

Sure enough, the clouds ruined my view of the Lunar Eclipse/Blood Moon last night. All I got was a picture of the full moon before I went to bed. This was supposed to be "pic1" of a series, but it's "pic" instead... You can see it was already cloudy. Did anyone get any pics? Care to share?