Today is day 8 for the Berry College Bald Eagle chick. Looks like red meat (more coot) for lunch. This is a very well fed baby!
All tucked in for the night, baby with a Mom-blanket.
The female Bald Eagle at the Turtle Bay nest was attacked last night by an owl while incubating her eggs. I guess this is the norm and cameras are allowing us to see this interaction now... And it may be related or not, but there are only two eggs today (the link is to a short video)...
Here's a video of Bald Eagle Mom Delta. She's got an injury to her left leg/foot and she appears to be able to use it a little bit now. This video gets a good look at her, but I can't tell what's wrong. Her foot looks ok... They are saying she has a broken leg, which is as good a guess as any... There's also a fly-by of Dad in the background on his way to the nest.
Camellia checked in today and he's been on a whirlwind tour of Virginia Beach over the past three days. Check out his adventures. It has now been 1397 days since Camellia got his transmitter. This is how long Azalea's transmitter worked. Hopefully, Camellia's transmitter will continue to send location data...
It's very tiring being a growing Bald Eagle. Check out this picture of the Southwest Florida Bald Eagle chick catching some air while wingercizing. Which results in an exhausted eagle pancake-face-plant:
Here's the Northeast Florida Bald Eagle chicks. I think the cam is at an angle... Just tilt your head to the right.
Momo was in Virginia Beach recently.
There has been a lot of worry about one of the Hancock Wildlife Bald Eagles. Mom Delta has been unable to put any weight on her left foot since some time on Feb 8/9. She appears ok in a video on the 8th, but is not using her left leg/foot on the 9th. Hancock Wildlife posted a video from today of her perched and you can see her foot that is hanging down. I don't see anything obviously wrong with her foot. It may be a broken leg. An injured but flight-capable Bald Eagle is difficult to catch. They can try to bait/net her. Otherwise, her condition will have to deteriorate to the point of not being able to fly any more before she can be captured for diagnosis and treatment. Which would make recuperation that much more difficult if she is so sick that she can no longer fly... And that's only if she ended up down where someone sees her and knows to get someone to catch her.
I checked on Mom Berry College early this morning, concerned by all the forecasts of freezing rain for Georgia. She looked to be doing ok at 8:10AM:
She is really accumulating some snow tonight. You can see which white streaks are flakes (as opposed to branches) in these two screen captures, taken a minute apart at 7:30PM:
I missed the egg-roll and repositioning darn it, shortly after the above screen captures. Here she is at 8:45PM. This is about an hour's worth of snow accumulation on her:
This is what she has to look forward to for the rest of the night, with the snow clearing out by sunrise.
I was going to call it a night watching this nest when she decided to put on a show! First, a stand and shake (look at how nice and dry that nest bowl is!):
Then she carefully backs up:
Does a quick egg roll:
Then just that quick, she settles back down. I can't tell the difference between the white of her tail and the snow...
The Northeast Florida Bald Eagles are looking wet tonight. In this screen capture, one baby is right in front of the other:
Here's a better look at the babies. Their feathers are wet, but they are warm and dry underneath:
I looked in on the Southwest Florida Bald Eagle nest too, but the camera must be down...
