Welcome Beach Grove Eagles

This Grade 3 class at Beach Grove Elementary School in South Delta, BC is taught by Judy Davis.
Ms Davis reports that they have eagles frequenting the bordering trees of their school playground. What a fortunate group of young students !

AND THE BEST NEWS EVER ------ Ms. Davis has the Delta2 nest in her yard and it will be joining our line up of cameras here at HWF.
We are certainly looking forward to it coming on line shortly.

Good Morning Teachers and Students

Here is a video for you to watch of the eaglets first day. It’s very strong and active for just being hours old. This will be so much fun to watch as it grows each day, they grow very fast and become more and more entertaining with their antics.

I hope you all enjoy this…

Eaglets’ First Day

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Good Morning Beach Grove Elementary School. We are thrilled that you will be joining us this year.

We are so excited that the Delta2 bald eagle camera has joined our line up of cameras this year. We LOVE eagles here at HWF

We have a couple of Delta bald eagle cameras at HWF so Mr. Hancock, our eagle biologist, has named this nest Delta2.

I turned on the camera this morning and to my great surprise I saw one of the eagles eating breakfast.



Link to the camera is here Delta2 Camera

We also have a discussion thread for this camera where members of our forum will be posting pictures of the activity on the nest.
You will find it here Delta2 Discussion

CONGRATULATIONS MS. DAVIS and CLASS !

Your Delta2 eagles have laid their first egg.
As far as we can tell it was laid the morning of March 3, 2011.
If all goes well the egg should hatch approximately April 7th.

In the meantime we'll wait to see if Mom lays a second egg in the next couple of days.




Second egg was laid at 11:10 a.m. March 6, 2011
This egg should hatch approximately April 10th.

Hello from Beach Grove students. We have 10 Grade 2's and 10 Grade 3 students who are studying bald eagles. Here are some of the interesting facts and questions they have: they were most surprised to learn that bald eagles can swim. We learned that they eat frogs and swans. A question we have is: why don't bald eagles get electrocuted when they are in the power poles? We were surprised to learn that sometimes they will build their nests on the ground. Do they use mud to hold their nests together? We wonder how it is possible that they can build such a strong, large nest that doesn't break apart in the storms. It is really fun to watch the Delta2 nest. javascript:emoticon(''

Welcome Beach Grove students

You have some very good questions! I know a little about eagles and power poles, though maybe you will learn more as you continue to study eagles. As you probably know, the bottom parts of the normal power poles you see on the streets are safe to touch - and the area up on the top of the pole where the eagles sometimes build nests is also shielded or protected from the electricity in the wires, so it is safe for an eagle to touch.

Have you ever noticed small birds sitting on the power lines and wondered how they could do that? It gets a little technical - and it's certainly not something anyone should try if they're not a small bird! - but as long as a bird doesn't touch a second power line or the ground, it can touch one power line safely. If you look at most power lines, you'll see that the two lines are quite far apart - so most birds can fly safely between them. Even if they bump into one of the wires - they're too high up to touch the ground, and their wings aren't wide enough to reach the other wire - so they are safe.

Eagles are at a greater risk from power lines than smaller birds - occasionally the lines are close enough together that an eagle with its very wide wings could touch both sides at once. Fortunately, eagles are very good at avoiding branches - and power lines - as they fly, so it is rare for them to be electrocuted.

Nests on the ground are quite rare in British Columbia - but more common elsewhere. I'll see if I can include a couple of pictures of nests on the ground in a future post.

Hello everyone from Beach Grove students. David and Karen are visiting our school and I am having difficulty logging on to the thread. We have chosen the names for Delta 2 eaglets. Oreo has been selected for the name of the first chick because of the colours of the feathers. The second chick was named Jet because of the speed that bald eagles can fly. The students have just completed their own slide shows from their bald eagle research. David and Karen were quite impressed with their enthusiasm and knowledge of this magnificent bird. Their questions were unending and they will continue to research to find the answers. I would like to thank Karen and David for their visit. Hopefully we have future eco biologists in our midst.

Congratulations on the naming of the eaglets. Yours students picked great names for them.