It is Sunday morning, August 7, 2011 in Australia

7:36 a.m. in Australia
Looks as if Mom is enjoying a meal on the nest and Dad has arrived. (That's if it's the female eating . I am going by the normal behavior of our bald eagles so I'm not sure if the same thing applies to the white-bellied eagles. Liberty, would you happen to know if that's correct ??


7:38 a.m.
Mom left and Dad is now incubating the eggs.

7:46 a.m.
Parents switch.
Mom arrived to take over incubation and Dad flew off.

Hello beautiful!!! Welcome to the HWF family of eagle cams from around the world!!





Here is a picture from liberty's article of two nearly ready to fledge WBE chicks from last year.. I thought I would post it for people to see, giving the photographer credit, as we know nothing about this type of eagle.....well except for liberty. They do look VERY different from our baldy eaglets!!


Credit to John Irvine

Quote by: terrytvgal

Such a beautiful bird! Do we know if this in an infra-red camera? from here in BC this cam is 15 hours ahead of BC time.(it 1:53pm Saturday afternoon in Sydney as I type this

Based on the information here today I am pretty sure I was watching dad on Friday evenng. His eyes were never still -- he was looking all around all the time.

Quote by: MaryF

This is fabulous!!! A new cam for us to watch in a far away part of the world. And what gorgeous eagles!!! Thanks to all of you for the information, links and great scaps of "our" new pair!!! Thanks to jkr for setting the thread up for us and special thanks to our Australian member, liberty1998, for all the wonderful background, video and help with telling Mom and Dad apart.

It's nice to know that we dedicated eagleholics will have a new bobblehead to watch (or maybe two)

Hopefully they will get their cam problems resolved and we will all be able to watch these new, beautiful eagles!!

Darlene...don't worry..I will let you know when it's safe to watch again if something happens!!

Thank you Mary! I am so soft hearted, that kind of thing haunts me for weeks! I'd appreciate knowing when it's safe to watch! I am very excited about the cam though. They sure are beautiful!!!

I'll leave it for jkr to fill in the general info on this eagle at the top of the first page....BUT... I went to do a little searching and found these beautiful pictures of the White Bellied Sea Eagle on two sites that have freely usable photos under the rules of "CC" I found them on Wikipedia and a special section of photobucket. I think they will give us all a better idea of what this beautiful bird looks like



great flight shot

Gopal Vijayaraghaven

going after that fish

Mdk572

posing for a close up

Victoria Dept of S+E

A few more pics of this beautiful eagle...........

perching in her world

Vicoria Dept of S+E

juvi in flight

Sascha Werkinger

Gorgeous close up

Curt Bradley

Three more that I couldn't resist.......


This gives you and idea of their size...just slightly smaller than a bald eagle

jue_10

flying with a fish

ekampang

ready to munch lunch

nevillazarus