Berry College Eagles Un-Stick The Landing, White-bellied Sea Eagles Day 87 SE15's Bad Day, Dyfi Osprey Project Nest Clean-up, Africam Black Eagles New Pictures

Nestorations continue at the Berry College nest.

Stick delivery:

Mom and Dad spend a lot of time in the nest together. Bald Eagles bond while working on the nest together.

I like it when they come and go by the back door.

Dad is so tiny compared to Mom.

They take a break during the afternoon. Then they were both in the nest at dusk.

One of the parents had a bad landing in the nest while bringing a stick. I think it was Dad. Not only did he not stick the landing, but he also lost the stick. Check out Un-Stick The Landing (0:26):

There is some on-going drama at the White-bellied Sea Eagle nest. SE15 was hopping to the nest from the perch branch and missed the nest. He fell below the nest and spent the night there. During the day today, he has moved around some of the branches, but he hasn't fledged yet and still hasn't made it back into the nest. At one point, SE16 was trying to get away from a Currawong and flew right into SE15. But SE15 kept ahold of his perch and SE16 was able to untangle herself and fly off. Once SE15 is hungry enough, he will either work his way back into the nest by hopping among the branches or he will fledge and get back that way. Here's some video of SE15's Bad Day (11:37):

The folks at the Dyfi Osprey Project have cleaned up the nest. Check out their post about their work.

There are new pictures of the Africam Black Eagle Kendi and her parents.

I was out of town the last few days. I am getting ready to build a house in Maryland and I had to make the trip to sign the construction loan. I have created a new blog for the housebuilding.

Berry College Eagles Day 55&57 Stretching and Flapping, Harrison Bay Eagles Day 11&13 Good Feeding & Bad Landing

These first two are actually from yesterday. I knew I had grabbed these s'caps yesterday, but couldn't find them when I did my post last night. In this first one, everyone is panting and one of the eaglets has its wing spread.

 

This one, I was trying to figure out if the babies are full grown yet. It's so hard to tell unless they are standing in the same way and the same distance from the cam... These babies are starting to look full grown.

Here's today's s'caps.  
There were some lazy moments.

With some synchronized wing stretches:

 

This baby was wingercizing hard, catching some air.

 Look at that impressive wing span!

HB8, on the left, got the majority of the food during this feeding at the Harrison Bay nest.

Afterward, they were sizing each other up.

This series of s'caps below is from a bad landing today. There is an entire nest to land in, with a very small portion being used by the puddle of chicks. And guess what happened? The first three are from three successive frames:

I skipped a frame or two to get to this next frame, which shows the parent is landing right on top of the babies.

Four seconds after the above s'cap and the adult is still trying to find a spot to step without stepping on the babies. Its foot kept coming down on the babies every time it tried to find a spot...

Two more seconds and still reaching back with that foot...

And finally the parent is able to shift its weight onto its right foot.

Disappearing Bald Eagle Nest, Update on a Bald Eagle's Bad Landing, Kentucky Bald Eagle Numbers, Off-Topic: Movie Score Web Site

A Bald Eagle nest has completely disappeared. The land-owner thinks the birds dismantled the nest themselves. But the Game Commission wonders what happened and offers a couple of other ideas. It's an interesting article -- read it here.

I blogged about the Bald Eagle that had a bad landing. I found an article today that includes more details about the rescue and includes two pictures. All I can say is... Wow!

Kentucky Bald Eagle numbers are soaring. This article includes a Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources map that generally shows where the nests are located. If you go looking for a nest, keep in mind that eagles are sensitive during the nesting season. If you want to observe an active nest, please keep a good distance so you don't disturb nesting activities. A nest can fail if humans disturb the eagles.

This is not eagles or nature. But a friend-at-work's husband has a movie rating site. I'm always looking for good movies and this site is pretty neat! So I'm sharing the link! (I've already got some movies on my 'to watch' list...)

Bald Eagle Camellia's Location, Bald Eagle Injured From a Bad Landing, Locations To View Wildlife Near San Francisco, Bald Eagle Flies Into a Window at Oral Roberts University

Camellia is doing some exploring. Reese has posted his most recent locations. Reese also told Shelly (in the comments) to check her pictures. I wonder if she found him...

A juvenile eagle has a bad landing. A really bad landing. Once a Bald Eagle fledges, it needs to learn pretty quick how to land. This eagle is seriously injured. I hope it can recuperate. Here's the story.

A San Francisco paper has published an article listing the best locations to view wildlife. Looks pretty good -- if you live near San Francisco...

I just watched some video and am completely disgusted. There was a "spirit day" at Oral Roberts University. They had a Bald Eagle that was supposed to fly around the room and return to its handler. Instead, he became confused and flew into a window. Many of these college students in the audience are laughing after it happened. The story says that the Bald Eagle is not injured. But I'd say this college's reputation is injured. Aren't these supposed to be Christians? And they laugh when our national symbol flies into a window and is possibly injured? What a bunch of idiots. I'm not even going to provide a link, I'm so disgusted. You can google it if you are interested.