JudyB.... Thank you.. i am new to this nest.. thank you for the helpful information...

Link to video of 2nd.egg being laid by 989razzle....

Decorah Eagle Lays Her 2nd Egg

3:00pm
Beautiful Mom is incubating..snow has melted some..


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5:03pm
Dad was incubating the eggs..gets up.. HMmm eggs are different in color....wonder why???

5:04pm
Dad exited at rt.of screen..eggs unattended..

5:08pm
mom enters from left rolls the eggs .. incubating them..she brought in some bedding ..

5:37pm
Mom exited left of screen ..eggs unattended

5:57pm
Mom entered from left don't know if she did egg roll ... had her back to us..incubating now pulling on the corn husk..

I have a vague recollection that you can use corn stalks as a natural dye - I know occasionally eggs do pick up some color from the material in the nest - perhaps that's happening here. It is a more distinctive color difference than I'm used to seeing in eagle nests - will be interesting to see if the other one also becomes darker in a couple of days, or if the dark one becomes lighter.

Thanks Judy... i was a bit concerned... will be interesting to observe.. i never saw this before for sure...

I was wondering about the egg coloration. I have seen dirtier or darker areas but this egg looks different. It will be interesting to watch and see what happens with it.

Just read your post Judy....so I guess we will wait and see.

FYI

Go to page 6 of this thread and Mayline has caps there of the first egg were it was discolored also.. interesting to read the posts there also...

6:28pm
Dark now.. looks like Dad is incubating



Good night everyone..
8:44pm
Just saw this and had to post it ..what a beautiful pose of parent snoozing

Nice pictures and reports everybody!! Wonderful scaps of the snow on Saturday!!!!! I'm afraid I've been a bit AWOL with good reason lately and I really appreciate all the news! I didn't even know there was a second egg. I'm a little concerned about that first egg that y'all think is a funny color. I'd like to re-post Mayline's pic of the egg from 2/24...the day it was laid and then today's shot where it looks pretty strange!!




Here is Mayline's great close-up of the newly laid egg on Feb 24th. It is sort of speckled looking , with some gray, but mostly white-ish and looks fairly smooth.




Now today, Feb 27th, at about 5:45 PM. It is really dark and almost textured or withered looking (click to see it). I've never seen an egg like this one. Maybe this egg is't good..time will tell!! (bev posted a pic similar to this one)

I do have some other pics from Feb 27th that I'd like to post...I never seem to have time to do it earlier. It's sort of a quick summary of the day.


Dad sitting pretty on the nest.


This pic and the next are good looks at the eggs. Egg #1 still looks fairly light and smoothish in the morning.


Closer look as Mom takes over...egg still grayish.