Jordan Lake: Big Pine nest. The day was somewhat cool and a little bit breezy but lots of bright sunshine! The first photo is Mom Loblolly. She has something of a coy look, which wouldn’t match her arrogant eagle attitude, however I think she was just watching something down on the shore. The other photo is Dad Pitch keeping his chick or chicks warm!
Jordan Lake: At least one egg has HATCHED! We don’t know yet if there is a second egg/chick. That is mom Loblolly reaching down towards the chick. She’s got a bite of fish in her beak. We can’t quite see the chick yet. The next two weeks are extremely critical to this chick because a chick must to be at least two weeks old before it can thermal regulate – in other words it can’t control its own body temperature until then and depends on the parent’s body heat for warmth. So on one hand I am very glad that it is warm today and that the chick won’t get chilled if the parent should be spooked from the nest. On the other hand, and I don’t blame them, there will be more people out at the park because the visitors want to be outdoors in the sunshine. I just pray that the visitors all respect these bald eagles and stay out of the Shelter 8 loop.
Jordan Lake: H&G nest. Hershey and Godiva have hatched a chick or chicks! They may have hatched them yesterday but I wasn’t 100% certain of that because I could not distinctly see any kind of feeding behavior. This morning I could see the behavior. That is Godiva leaning over to feed the chick, she stands up, looks around, and instantly goes back to feeding the baby. Hallelujah!
NEW Petition for Help for Loblolly and Pitch at Big Pine Nest! This is on a different platform and I hope it will bring additional signatures. So, even if you signed the first petition, would you please consider signing the new one too? And sharing this post too? Thank you from Loblolly and Pitch!
New petition is at https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bald-eagles-loblolly-and-pitch-need-help
Jordan Lake. At the golden hour this morning, I found mama Godiva out on the perch in front of her nest. That is dad Hershey that you can see inside of the nest, just to the left of the main trunk. Their egg(s) should hatch just about any day now. So I am watching very very closely!
Jordan Lake: High Rise Nest. First bald eagle CHICK for us to celebrate this season!!! This is a nest that I don’t often get to see unless I am out with Captain Doug. We went drifting by yesterday and lo and behold there was a gray fuzzy chick in the nest with mom. Hooray!
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