Peggy Jean on the Maine forum is saying 5:35 pm nest time - link to the post there (they have videos)

There are eggs all over the place today!

I saw an eagle on the nest tonight and wondered. Great news!!

These parents are so fun to watch. They were so patient last year.

Quote by: JudyB

Peggy Jean on the Maine forum is saying 5:35 pm nest time - link to the post there (they have videos)

There are eggs all over the place today!

Thank you, JudyB for bringing that link here! Have you ever heard an eagle chirp like that when laying her egg? Very interesting!!

Congratulations Decorah Family! Thank you for the egg alert, Soph!

For those interested in the PTZ cam, here is a quote from RRP:

"Who does the panning, tilting, and zooming, and when does that happen?
Bob Anderson, Executive Director of RRP, switches to the PTZ cam most days between about 9 and 10 a.m., and when there appears to be interesting activity in the nest. He will be especially attentive when egg-laying and hatching begin, from late February."

Note: Decorah, Iowa, is CST.

4:04 am (199 viewers)

a peek at the egg!

Good Morning! I have been watching this nest and did not know until this morning that there was an HWF Discussion Page for the Decorah Nest! Thank you MaryF for sending me the link. I was watching as the female laid her egg on Wednesday. I posted it immediately on the Sportsman Paradise Online "chat" (I was so excited I signed up and made my very first post on that chat when I saw the egg!) Anyway that's the camera I have been watching....

The female was sitting sort of fluffed up in the same spot for quite a while, head down, and seemed very focussed. I suspected what she was about, and as soon as she moved I scrambled to take these quick s'caps. The egg is about 1 minute old in these 2 s'caps For the record, I thought I should post them over here:

Then, ON THURSDAY MORNING 2/24 I took these:

Just before the egg was laid, around 5:50 PM CST on Wed., I was taking pics of the pair working on the nest bowl. In the third s'cap, I think this is the female (?) picking at a dried out prey which the male may have brought. This not too long before she squatted down over the nest bowl and got serious about producing an egg!


shortly before egg laid........


sorry about the incorrect chronology of my posts