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By JL Eagle nest report: Resolute has fledged! 4 photos 04/22/2018
First Nest
 
Resolute has FLEDGED!
I didn’t get to see the first flight which I think occurred on Friday.
I did get to catch this much of Resolute’s flight this morning.  She was about 500 feet from the nest.
The fledging occurred when Resolute was 12 weeks of age.
Hopefully I will be able to catch the newest flier at the lake out in the open soon and get a photo for all of you.

By JL Eagle Nest report: First Nest, 1 photo, 1 video 4-16-2018
First Nest
Resolute is going ever higher up in the nest tree.
Preparing for that first flight.
In the photo, Resolute had gotten up in the tree and dad Petruchio showed up with a fish.
Resolute wanted the fish but couldn’t quite figure out how to get down into the nest.
Finally, the chick just let go and fell down into the nest and onto dad.
Yep, there was quite a ruckus!
In the video you will see Resolute trying out all kinds of new perches.

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.