bald eagle parent

Tag

By JL Eagle Nest report: H&G Nest video 04-13-2018

H&G nest snippets

I think the smallest of the eagle trio may still be with us. The State Rangers, one of the other monitors and I have been watching closely since we saw the first of my video snippets in this movie from 2 days ago.  In the first snippet: the large and medium chicks are playing to the right of the main trunk.  Mom Godiva is on the horizontal limb in front of the nest.  Hershey is in the nest to the left and he appears to be feeding the smallest chick.  I wish I had a long enough lens to film the nest directly, maybe one day … in the meantime thank you for putting up with my sway as I use my iPhone to record the video on the back of my Canon camera – which is on LIveView at 10x zoom.  One of my friends is working on a jig to mount my iPhone directly behind the Canon so that the recording will be level and without my sway.  Hope we can get there sooner than later!  The rest of the snippets are family life in the H&G nest – chicks playing, mom and dad nest repairing, a good scratch or two and flights by the parents in and out of the nest.

By JL Eagle Nest report: H&G Nest 1 photo, 1 video 4/3/2018
Godiva caught a big fish and Hershey gave her an escort back to the nest.
You can really see in this photo just how light brown Hershey is colored.
In the video two of the chicks are playing and one of them gets bossy with mom Godiva.
I have not seen the third chick in a week.
The third chick may simply be being pushed to the back, or,
it has lost the competition and passed away.  I will keep watching for it.
I apologize for the odd mixture of types in the video.
The oldest of my two cameras is the one I use for video.
It has served me well but is coming to the end of its usefulness.
I am filling my piggybank because I need to replace it.  Thank you for your understanding.

By JL Eagle Nest Report: Ranger Nest, 2 photos 3/30/2018
Mom Ranger and her two chicks were waiting for some fish.
 
 
Then mom Ranger saw an osprey flying in with a fish for its mate.
Mom Ranger dashed for the osprey and literally banged into it, hoping to get the osprey to drop its fish.
This is a favorite tactic of bald eagles – let the osprey catch the fish, then steal the fish for the eaglets.
The plucky osprey hung onto its prize and dashed between two trees where mom Ranger couldn’t follow it.
Mom Ranger was quite grumpy.  Not everything goes the eagle’s way.