Berry College Bald Eagle Chick Day 14, Fledge at the Northeast Florida Bald Eagle Nest, Screen Capture of the Southwest Florida Bald Eagle Chick, A Cold Night For Bald Eagle Mom Hays, Hays Bald Eagle Nest Had Sub-adult Bald Eagle Fly By, Eagles4Kids Bald Eagle Nest Update, Bald Eagle Eggs and Cold Weather

The Berry College Bald Eagle Chick is 2 weeks old today. Here is a comparison of hatch day and today. That egg that didn't hatch is providing a good point of reference:

February 22: Hatch Day



March 8: Two Weeks Old

 

 I noticed Mom Berry wasn't incubating as much today. The temperatures were warmer today and soon, the chick will be able to thermoregulate on its own. Some more screen captures from today. "It was this big!"

Here's a nice moment with Mom and baby:

It was 61 degrees when I took this s'cap this evening. Mom was standing nearby.

Eventually, she moved in a little closer.

 Then finally she incubated... the baby's head!

Much excitement at the Northeast Florida Bald Eagle nest. I checked in on the nest this evening and there was only one chick in the nest. So I did some checking and found out that one of them fledged this morning. Then I went back to the cam and found they had panned over to this:

The Southwest Florida Bald Eagle chick appears to be doing well.

The Hays Bald Eagle Nest Cam page is reporting 33 degrees and light snow. It seems incredibly windy there tonight. Mom Hays seemed agitated just now when I looked in on her, repeatedly calling out:

I was searching the web for info on the Hays nest and discovered not only did they have the incident with the raccoon. But they also had a sub-adult do a fly by. Here's a link to the video. Here's a still taken from the video, where you can tell it's a third year Bald Eagle:

At the Eagles4Kids nest, it appears that the resident male has taken the intruder female as a new mate. Some of you may remember Dad Norfolk and the parade of women that came and went after Mom Norfolk was killed. The imperative to reproduce is so strong. Since the resident female had injuries to her feet, she was probably unable to defend her place at the nest against a challenger. In her absence, the male accepted the new female. Such is life...

There seems to be a lot of Bald Eagle nests with eggs that aren't hatching. I think the unusually cold winter may have something to do with this. The Raptor Resource Project had a blog post recently about incubating eggs in cold weather. Very interesting!