Update On the Eagles

As I previously posted back on April 30th that I had been watching three baby eagles via an eagle CAM set up in a nest in Sydney, British Columbia. Three eggs are not normally hatched, nor do the eaglettes all live to maturity. There were times I had to turn the CAM off because I use to worry so much about Tiny, eaglette #3. They picked on him so badly, and would steal all the food. Poor Tiny would just hide in the corner of the nest. I thought, there is no way this poor thing would survive, but he/she did and is getting ready to Fledge (fly) … “guess-estimate” is July 9th, three months after Tiny was born.

They had a contest and named all three eaglettes … Breeze, who is already flying. The next is Hero…Hero is a bit of lazy eaglette and seems to like “nesting” more then flying. And then there is our favorite Tiny!! Who has become the “hellion” of the nest!

Here are the Three amigo's back in April

Here is a picture of the nest about 95 feet up

Here is a closer picture, with one of the eaglettes out on the branch and one of the parents in the nest

One of the parents bringing in lunch!

Here is the eaglette Breeze in one of his first flights...a shot of breeze flying high. If you click her larger, you will see that her wing feathers are of different lengths, thus still growing in. When they are younger in the nest, their feathers are full of blood, thus very heavy. This blood nourishes the growth of the feathers, which then become hollow and light in weight. It is then at this time, that they really start to flap. They have over 8,000 feathers, and they weigh more than their body weight. As the young birds take years to learn how to hunt, but rather scavenge for food, nature has made their wings larger than the parents. On a good day, with warm thermals, they can cover 100's of miles in a day.


And Ma and Pa hanging out catching some sunshine!

This is an amazing shot ...
PA FLYING WITH THE BIG GUYS the photographer was mortally afraid for pa, what a jet wash they put out, and the noise, unbelievable...but brave pa took them on and scared them away. Harry................CLICK PHOTO FOR LARGER


Here is a clip that is on You Tube ...