Quote by: Eagle lovers fro

Bet ~Love your ''Three Men in Black"..

Glad you liked it. Thought you might. I liked the image where you coined that phrase and this one seemed to fit it.

I forgot today was the banding/transmitter day. Knew there was something, but decided it was Cinco de Mayo.. Anyway when I got home and started checking the status, the trio was sort of out of it. Then when I came back to the cam, they were lined up like that and their heads kept swiveling in unison - around, up, forward etc. I think they were probably watching a parent flying close cover. Had a hard time deciding which image to post.

Quote by: MystCat

Just a random question here--

Do they usually fit the eaglets with a hood when working with them?
Today it seemed to cause them more discomfort (shaking their heads--not knowing where to put their feet when they were lifted up and out of the baskets, etc. ) than if they had simply left the hoods off.

It seems there were concerns over the previous handling of the eaglets--but hooding them only seemed to cause more confusion for them this time than last when they could look about and gauge their surroundings...

I think they do put hoods on them ,when they are handling the eagles ,they did last year too...The purpose of a hood is to calm the bird ..I think at first the hood did not fit properly and was removed.Getting fitted for a transmitter she was calm..I was more stressed out then Camellia watching today..All three chicks looked healthy and well fed, and I'm glad its over..

A few more pics..






CIAO!...

Thanks, STARR!!

Once again, I love your photos of the NBG family--thank you!

Thanks, too, BET, for the photos you posted!

I just can't get over how fast these three amigos/Men in Black have grown!

Am I the only one who got a recording? This is from now.....

HI GUYS~ HI ANNA~TODAY ON THE NEST

Our men in black are keeping an Eagle Eye on the aliens around the nest....


Dinner or a pillow fight...

Another lazy day...:blink:


Showing the Necklaces!!...


Living on the Edge!...


Ciao~Starr..

Hi all!
Great s'caps over the past couple of days...thank you! (That seagull dinner last night was something...eek!)

It's funny that we have coined the name "Men in Black" for this trio because, it may be that they are all male eaglets on this nest this year. From the latest blog at http://eaglenest.blogs.wm.edu/:

On May 5 the three Norfolk Botanical Garden eaglets were removed from their nest to be weighed, measured and identification bands placed on their legs by wildlife biologists from the Center for Conservation Biology. Data collected from these eaglets will be added to data from other eagles from the Chesapeake Bay region. The weight and measurements of ND and NE confirm that they are both males when compared to data averages from other Chesapeake Bay bald eagles of similiar age. However, the weight and measurements from NC fall in between the averages for male and female. NC is likely a male, but for the time being will be classified as unknown.

(italics and bolding added.)


Now isn't that something!

An accompanying chart of the measurements is on that page, too.

Here the Men in Black are this morning (one is hiding behind the tree branch...)