Visit to Vanier Park today March 5 2011 at 12 noon and the male eagle was on a branch a little ways from the nest but could not see the female (she might be sitting on eggs is the nest but could not see her

Sunday March 5 2011 Male on nest tree next to nest

I was at Vanier from approx 1:00pm to 2:30. When I arrived, one adult was still in the same location where garyandjudy observed it. After a short time the 2nd adult came back and landed on the nest. It poked and prodded for a few minutes Then just sat there for a while. I had an excellent conversation with an older gentleman and his wife. He gave me a tip on another viewpoint for the nest. But requires a lot of magnification. I went up to the new view point and sure enough it gives a good look into the nest. I don't think there are any eggs at Vanier yet, but it won't be long now. I'll post some pictures and maybe even try a short video after I have processed them.

Here's a link to a video I posted on Youtube. Just the Vanier Eagle on Saturday. I'm really just working out how to post the video. But some of you may enjoy it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKs-83SLp6A

Saturday March 19th 2011
Very dull day down at Vanier Park today but mom Vanier was sitting on the nest brooding, I hope sitting on two eggs as thats her usual number

I captured three pictures of the nest tree with mom Vanier sitting on the nest, but dad Vanier was no where around or if he was I couldn't spot him anywhere.
clic on captures to enlarge - it's dull but you can make out mom Vanier's tailfeathers



The time was 12:35 PM PDT

After a disappointing trip to habitat island (just lots of people there smoking, throwing large rocks....with dogs and bikes and everything )

I biked back along the seawall to Vanier to check up on the eagles.
They definitely made my day

Along the way I spotted Dad out working hard to find some dinner, but the crows were giving him a hard time.




He ended up perched up on the mast of a boat



And I also got a couple pictures of mom peeking out of the nest






When I was down by the nest tree the sun was just about to set.

April 3 2011 posted these captures I took on female Vanier eagle sitting on her eggs on April 1 2011

Also saw male Vanier eagle sitting on totem pole looking around for food as after I took his capture he flew off of the totem pole north over the West End towards the Vancouver waterfront