Decorah, Iowa - 2012 - Bald Eagle Cam

New this year - watch the Decorah Eagles here on Hancock Wildlife website - your choice of a small, medium or large viewing window - index.php?topic=DecorahEagle1

http://www.farmyou.com/falcon_cams/deco ... _xcel.html
Other cams in the area
Eagle Dailies - still shots taken over the previous 24 hours
This nest was featured on the Nature show "American Eagle" - and now you can watch it live!

The nest is in Decorah, Iowa; the exact location is not publicized to protect the eagles. Local time is Central time. The pair has been observed since 2002, but 2009 was its first year online. They successfully raised three eaglets in both 2009 and 2010. In 2010 the youngest eaglet was 7 days younger than the oldest and 5 days younger than the middle chick, so newly hatched at the time the older ones were beginning to move out of the nest bowl; we were concerned that it would have a hard time getting a share of the food - but the excellent parents at this nest made sure all were fed appropriately to their age and stage. They again laid three eggs and fledged three eaglets in 2011, and one of the fledglings was fitted with a tracking device - you can follow the travels of D1 here.

Based past experience for this pair, look for eggs in late February or early March, chicks in early to mid-April, and fledging in late June or early July.

2011-2012 Season:

• adults seen: September 7, 2011 (possibly a few days earlier)
  
• eggs laid: -- February 17, 7:54 pm; February 20, 9:09 pm; February 24, 8:05 pm
  
• hatched: March 27, 1:53 pm (39 days); March 28, ~9:00 am (37 days); March 31, before 6:50 am (36 days)
  
• designated: D12, D13 & D14 (per RRP, D identifies the nest site and beginning at 12 honors the 11 known successful fledges from the nest)
  
• fledged: maybe June 12, 8:25 pm (77 days) (definitely June 13); June 14, 6:38 an (78 days); June 18, 7:31 am (79 days)
  

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Beautiful Decorah Mom-2011-by Maryanne11

Handsome Decorah Dad-2011-by MaryF

Trio of beautiful Eaglets-2011-by flywithme



Link to last year's thread for this nest

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Some great pictures of the nest and the area around it from Raptor Resource.........

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68092929@N ... 965375125/

Bringing the exciting news from the old thread!

Quote by: golden1, September 9, 2011

Ma and Pa Decorah were in the nest yesterday. They have brought in sticks and have begun to nestorate. Cam is up. They are also tracking the eaglet with the transmitter. It has been in central Minn and Wis.

This beautiful scap goes with the above post. This is a picture captured by someone and posted on the Raptor Resource site of D1 in Wisconsin.







ETA....It was taken by an person who is an eagle expert and lives by yellow lake

Here are a few sharable scaps taken by ericscottsmom of the Decorah pair's return to the nest.


Dad and Mom in the nest.



Dad, as always, moving a branch.



Here's Mom

Three more from ericscottsmom........

Here's Mom giving us the eagle eye and looking like she might be molting.



Handsome Dad..



Our wonderful Decorah pair.

D1 (Decorah eaglet 1 with the transmitter) has really been traveling again lately. The most recent locations show that the eagle is west of Duluth, Minnesota. That's quite a distance from Decorah. The folks at Raptor Resource Project should really be learning a lot by following the movement of this eagle.

http://raptorresource.org/maps/latest.php

There was a visitor of a different kind in the nest at 1:45 this morning!! Click below to see the visitor.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgmrm4SUrjo