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 ...

New Babies Born!

I received an link from a friend that directed me to one of those "Nature Cams" ... some are pretty neat, but most are really boring. So I decided to take a look and just see what this has to offer. Guess what, I am HOOKED!

To "backtrack" a bit ... while in British Columbia last year we went to Vicotira, then drove up to Sidney and caught a ferry over to Vancouver. While we were staying on the San Juan Islands off the coast I saw my first majestic eagle! I was in total awe!


So back to this "Nature Cam" ... it is located in Sidney, British Columbia in the nest of a pair of eagles who have had three eaglettes! I have been watching their growth, their award stumbles, their first sneeze (that's what it looked like to me), and watching mom and dad both bring, fish and other small creatures back to the nest to feed their young ... totally amazing. You can hear the chicks talking to their parents and the parents making clucking noises back and also to each other. I worry if they get to far out of their "nest bowl" that they will fall out!

Lette 1 is the stronger by far and takes most of the food, he gets around pretty good, Lette 2 is fair is size and also moves around a fair amount, Lette 3 has a bit of the "ugly duckly" look ... or should I say ugly Lette Look!! I worry about Lette 3like a mother bird! I come home from work and have to go check my cam, I watch TV with the cam on in the back ground so I can check on them, in the morning I try to see them before I leave for work, but the sun is not always up yet on the west coast ... call me addicted! :-)

So here are some cam shots of the family ... I have attached a link below also to the nest. Be sure to keep and eye on my baby Lettes while I am at work!! I need a life! hahahahaha

OK Here are Mom and Dad


Here is mom with Lette 1 and Lette 2



Mom looking after her babies


Here are the kids!!


I hope you can open this link ... I am not sure if I am doing this right! But if you can ... enjoy the these majestic animals!!