Good morning, Lafarge!

Here's a 3-minute video that goes after my slideshow, a continuation of the feeding at 8:30 pm. The leaves do get in the way some (and I'm not good enough or patient enough to edit the video so it only has the good parts) - but there are some nice looks at the eaglet using her legs and wings to stretch as far as possible and even scramble up a bit to get some food.

:Lafarge Chick Tries to Escape

Cute video JudyB

5:29 am
Adult on the nest brooding.


5:35 am
Adult got up, had a stretch, and went out of view at top right of the camera. No way to know if it's flown off.
Can see the eaglet actively moving around between the leaves.


5:50 am
Eaglet has been alone for 15 minutes now.
Can't see him for the leaves on the tree.
The branches sometimes jiggle as if a bird is up in the tree moving around. Perhaps the parents are perched there

5:52 am
Just caught a glimpse of the eaglet as he poopshoot across the nest.

5:53 am
Adult arrives. This looks as if it could be Dad with the sleek head but when he moves around it looks like Mom. Not sure which adult this is.
Can't see if there's anything in his talons.


5:54 am
Adult walked across the nest out of view.
Can now see the adults beak as the eaglet is being fed.


5:59 am
Feeding over and adult now brooding.
Now that the adult is brooding it looks as if this could have been Mom all along.

6:03 am
The adult is now quietly brooding - there is so little wind the leaves remain in the way!

6:23 am
Mum is up and feeding the chick again - who is eating eagerly!
whatever it is needs plucking!

7:51 am
Mum is brooding - in a sea of white feathers - looks like the inevitable seagull!
There is a bit more breeze to move the leaves.

Please note that at some time this morning (after rush hour but before noon) I'll be taking a new server down to the Lafarge site and putting it into service. The server is vital to watching the camera - and also records hi-res archive files. They're supplying us with 5 x 1 Terabyte drives for this too

I'm somewhat pressed for time as we need to remove our server from the site before the weekend, and I only got the pieces for the Lafarge-supplied server yesterday about noon (and it was missing a power supply) so have been configuring it all evening and morning to take over the job permanently from our own server.

I'm hoping I have everything all done - but won't know until I get home as I won't be able to stay. We have our house up for sale and I have a viewing today at noon.

I will be able to remotely configure and fix/replace anything missing as I'm leaving a 100% copy of the information from our system there.

This may mean one of the following:
1 - all is well and the new server will just work - I certainly hope so
2 - the new server will need some minor software changes - and this will be done once I'm home but might take some time (hours, hopefully not days)
3 - the new server will need major work which I may not get done before the plant closes for the weekend (very low probability) which may mean that there is no video at all this weekend or until I can get in and fix things. The server has been running all night and this is very low probability.

sorry - I was hoping to have more time but the new parts simply took longer to get than we'd hoped - and we now are desperate for our own server back for this weekend.

None of this is Lafarge's fault - the supplier just took a long time, that's all.

richard

Excellent video JudyB--I haven't been here in a few days--and the eaglet has grown soooo much!
She has excellent use of her wings. Watching the feeding allows me to see the 3-D nature of the nest cup. From above it looks so flat, but in the video, and by the eaglet's movements, it is clear there is a nest cup rim there that she is leaning against--and is holding her in--just like all the other nests.

8:50 am
Brooding adult on the nest


8:54 am
A little preening