From Alcoa---


Monday, May 21, 2012

Turning 9 Weeks This Week
How time flies. Faith is nine weeks old today and Hope will hit that mark on Wednesday and Spirit on Saturday. The weather for the next couple of days should be much cooler and less humid, so expect lots of energy being used up by these very active eaglets. You can still vote in our eaglet fledging poll on the Alcoa Facebook page at www.facebook.com/alcoa.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 (From Alcoa)

Closer and Closer to the Edge
This morning we have already seen one of the eaglets so far out on the edge of the nest that it was pratically suspended in air. There was no place left to go but out or back into the nest. The eaglet chose to come back into the nest...but it won't be too much longer until they start making the other choice. The next few days could be very exciting!

http://youtu.be/alQcLs-MYZo eaglets Faith Hope & Spirit all looking sweet

Nice video--Thank you, Pricilla! It's not often that we see Mom on the nest these days, especially feeding her big eaglets.

Between 5 and 6PM, I did manage a few s'caps where the eaglets weren't just lying around---

Just hanging out--Faith missing her head.



WOW--we can see a little face!



Dad in the nest feeding his big eaglets---and himself.

Faith's big beautiful wing



The second time she spread her wings she also hopped forward and came close to knocking Dad right off the nest.

May 24, 2012

The weekend is going to be hot, hot, hot! I wish this nest had more shade.

From Alcoa---

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Hot Holiday Weekend Ahead
Things are heating up for a long holiday weekend. We expect a chance of thunderstorms later today and again late Friday, then mostly hot an humid over the weekend with highs right around 90 degrees.

Stay tuned, because branching and fledging could happen at any time!

OOPA!! We both got nearly the same s'cap!! Can you believe that huge fish?? That must have been one worn out parent after getting that one up to the nest!!

3:15PM---This must be Spirit. He is much smaller than Mom, who is eating.



Mom and Spirit