Welcome, Bev!

I readily admit this is a bit scary to watch. They have made the nest sturdier and perhaps a little bit bigger - but it's still a pretty small nest!

I am glad you stopped by - it does indeed look as if there may be something happening with that egg!

I need to get back to work now, but will try to check in soon to see if there's any progress.

3:15 pm

The little one is looking good! And both eggs are still looking like eggs. I haven't seen any cracks or pips, though sometimes the chick is leaning against them, so I don't always see the whole top half of the egg.

A couple of pictures from this afternoon.

7:14 pm

Both adults on the nest - I think this is Mom arriving for the overnight shift.



Two eggs - and a sleeping eaglet who is already so big that I can't imagine her fitting in an egg just two days ago.



And a bit of a bedtime snack.

She does look way too big to fit back into an egg already, JudyB! It never ceases to amaze me how quickly they grow! She is too cute bobbling around the other two eggs. I have been peeking in here but that nest still concerns me especially with three eggs this year. There are plenty of sparse spots even with the work they did on the nest. This pair needs nest building school.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Good morning!

I hear what you're saying, Mary - and given the number of other nests that need observers, I'm not sure how long I'll continue to watch to the degree that I have been. The folks at the Sutton Center are also good at posting reports when anything of interest happens, so I'm confident that there will be a record of this nest, whether or not we do much posting here.

I also know this pair has a history of having eggs that don't hatch. Only one of their 3 eggs hatched in 2009, and two of the three hatched in 2010. They laid four eggs in 2008, but we don't know how many hatched because the cams went down about the time the eggs were hatching; when they were able to fix them a month later, there were two chicks.

7:35 am
Breakfast for the bobble




9:15 am
It might be a piece of nest material - but it looks as if the egg in back may have a pip hole




9:58 am
Either the piece of grass is getting bigger, or....

11:30 am
Still two eggs - and an active eaglet who enjoyed her lunch.




1:07 pm
Time for another little snack.




2:14 pm
Very windy day at the nest. Dad just stopped by, and Mom declined a switch. Mom is just fine in the s'cap below - but it took me a moment to figure out which side was up, and she's almost been tipped over a couple of times. Not sure why she doesn't face into the wind, but I'm guessing she's got her reasons.

2:22 pm

Let's try this again -

I think there are now two chicks!

#1 is nearest the adult and being fed, and newly-hatched #2 is on the other side of the egg and shell. I've seen him wiggle his very little wings, so all appears well.






(2 minutes)

Also, here's a video by raptorfan81, with the first look at the new chick at 2:21 pm - it comes before mine chronologically.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtxfFrc ... re=related

4:10 pm
Another feeding for #1, and more napping for #2





There's a whole lot of straw or fluff of some sort in the nest, and some of it has been pulled over the chicks and egg - everyone is there, and doing fine, but they are a bit hidden in the second pic.