I was home this morning and was able to get some good views of the Africam Black Eagle chick. There was a big stretch before standing up.
I love the leggings on these birds!
Potty break...
Being shy.
The flight feathers on the wing are coming in great!
Here's all three Dyfi Osplets in the nest.
Then one-by-one, they took off.
One of the Harrison Bay Eaglets was at the nest this afternoon.
The Eaglet did a call that started to sound like an adult calling. It's like the Eaglet is going through Puberty (1:30):
This is the same Eaglet, hiding in the shadows...
There were quite a few comings and goings at the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Loch of the Lowes Osprey nest today.
I think they are enjoying their new-found freedom.
And with this departure, the nest is empty.
The Soddy Daisy Bluebirds are just hairy blobs at this stage. They aren't being brooded much during the day, probably because the temps are so warm. That allows Mom to go foraging for food for her babies.
It's less than a week for hatch watch at the White-bellied Sea Eagle nest. I'm so eggcited I can hardly stand it! The White-bellied Sea Eagle chick is the cutest thing ever! For now, incubation continues...
Nobody was home at the White Rock Eagle nest today, but the light was pretty and the nest was... GONE! It has been falling apart. And last year a lot of the nest fell away. But now it is completely GONE!!!
A lot of people don't know what a Bald Eagle sounds like because so many times (in commercials and movies and TV shows) the scream of a Red-tailed Hawk is dubbed in. Here's an article about it and you can play a video of each bird calling. Play the videos! Way cool!
Today was day 108 for the Berry College Bald Eagle. One of the adults landed on the nest this morning and B3 was only a minute behind. I hope she was out with the parent, learning how to forage for food. Here's some s'caps of her eating. In this first one, her tail is still flared a little, and her wings are spread a little -- part of mantling to protect the food.
Something stage left caught their attention:
There was a fierce storm at the college today. I captured video of some damage being done to the nest. (I thought the nest was going to come apart!) I included some video of Mom Berry College Bluebird riding out the storm in her nest box and the storm on radar as well as the eagle nest from both cams. Here's a link to the video (6:55).
I also grabbed a couple of videos of the Berry College Bluebird nest. This first one is Mom eyeballing the camera (1:57). And she takes a break and does a shimmy, shimmy back onto the eggs. The other video is Dad bringing Mom some food (0:28). She is greedy!
Two were up and one was down at the Hays nest this evening:
K43 at the Two Harbors nest was in pancake mode.
It was dinner time with the family at the White Rock nest. Dad is supervising Mom while she feeds the eaglets:
Here's a link to a video from a couple of miles from my house. A police officer helps Mom Duck and her babies cross 11 lanes of traffic! Way to go!
Spoiler alert! Did you watch the video of the Berry College Bald Eagle nest in the storm? If you haven't watched the video yet but want to, don't look any further! Here are before and after pictures showing what's different. It's weird -- there was an updraft that did the damage. Some sticks are gone. But others are higher than where they started. I tried to frame these two s'caps the same. It's amazing how some sticks that don't seem to be holding on by much are still there while others are rearranged or gone...
