Mom shakes off the rain and the chicks watch her every move.
It easy to tell which chick is the oldest when they are positioned the right way...
I found a few really great videos that someone posted on youtube (of this nest over the past week):
A Fish Tale (2:54)
B5's Close Call (0:47) (B5 is the younger chick of this pair. B4 is oldest.)
B4's Huge Pellet (4:41)
Eaglets Misunderstanding (5:25)
Eaglets and Sirens (3:55)
B4 Eats Coot Leg (7:12)
A word here about pellets. Raptors eat everything. Bones, fur, scales, shells, whatever. They do remove fur and feathers as best they can, but some still gets ingested. The indigestible part of what they consume mixes with some mucus to form a pellet, which they hock up and spit out. Which is what B4 did in the video above.
I haven't blogged much this year about the Southwest Florida nest, but it is a nest that I followed last year. This week, they rescued a Bald Eagle in Fort Myers that was on the ground with a broken clavicle. It turns out that it is the male resident of that nest, Ozzie. He is being treated and I'm hoping he will make a full recovery. Here's the story and video. There is one eaglet in the nest, big enough that it can be left alone while Mom forages. She did bring food to the nest today.
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