Southwest Florida Eagles On Hatch Watch!, Upper Mississippi River Trio At The Nest, Berry College Eagles Incubating, Northeast Florida Eagles One Month Old

The Southwest Florida Eagles are on hatch watch this week. Today is day 33 for the first egg that was laid. That's the earliest that we might see a hatch. Although, with delayed incubation, I would expect the first laid egg to not hatch until around day 35 and the second laid egg to hatch on day 33 or 34. So, even though we are technically in the window for hatch, I would be surprised if we saw a hatch before Monday... Before hatching, the parent can often hear peeps from the egg. The parent seems to be listening here:

Two of the Upper Mississippi River trio arrived at the nest at 5:13 this evening. I then lost the signal (this happens when there are a lot of viewers because of bandwidth issues.) The third arrived at 5:14 - 5:15. So it seems that they all hang out together during the day. They didn't stay at the nest for long, since it was getting dark.

The Berry College Eagles are still incubating two eggs. I just found this picture from a couple of months ago, of Mom Berry bringing a huge piece of lumber to the nest. Keep in mind that her wingspan is 6 - 7 feet wide and that gives you an idea of the size of this limb. She didn't make it to the nest with the limb. It dropped near the photographer who took the picture. The limb weighs 12 pounds! Notice that she is carrying it with one foot. The other leg is the one that was injured and caused her to limp for the past two years. She's not limping any more, but you can tell by the way she stands that it didn't heal perfectly... Here's a s'cap from today, almost half-way through the incubation period:

Then Northeast Florida Eaglets are about a month old now and are standing already:

I caught An Eventful Two Minutes at the nest (2:05).

Here's a gif of part of the video "Bulls-eye!":