FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2011

Good Morning All!!
No peek of the little one yet! When I turned the cam on this morning, Emoyeni was feeding the baby.

Emoyeni is feeding the baby

Emoyeni is brooding. She is also moving bedding around some.

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Good Morning All!!
No peek of the little one yet! When I turned the cam on this morning, Emoyeni was feeding the baby.

Emoyeni is feeding the baby

Emoyeni is brooding. She is also moving bedding around some.

Okay a few questions because I am new (to the blackeagle cam). Did both eggs hatch? And, what is in front of the nest where mom lays. It is furry and whitish gray...please don't say baby two!?

Mom has left the nest and we get a peek at our little chick!


Here's our chick!

She's so sweet!

Emoyeni arrives back at nest.

Are you happy? You got to see my baby!

Feeding time again!

Little chick waiting for a bite!

Hi muirhead77!
In response to your question:
Beans posted that "2 eggs were laid 4/17 and ?
Hatch 6/4 or 6/5"

Then nightowl posted this from Facebook:
"This was posted Saturday morning, June 4, on Facebook...



Black Eagle Project Roodekrans

The second egg hatched today, thank goodness one egg hatched otherwise we would have had egg on our faces. Excuse the pun! Yip you can break open that bottle of wine! Prey was bought to the nest around 11 and the young chick has had its first feed. Well done eMoyeni you have done it again.
Yesterday at 10:24am


Now I'm really confused. Beans video showed one chicklet, so are they saying that is the only chicklet in the nest so far, or did the other suddenly hatch and there are 2? Sounds like there is still only one in the nest, but how in the world do they know it came from the second egg? Are they numbered? "


Hope this helps!?
I saw the white in front of the nest today too and was wondering what that was. The practice with the black eagles is that only one chick survives. The oldest and strongest will kill the weaker one. We never saw another chick in the nest, but it's possible!?? Maybe JudyB, nightowl, or Beans have an answer!???

SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2011

Quote by: muirhead77

Okay a few questions because I am new (to the blackeagle cam). Did both eggs hatch? And, what is in front of the nest where mom lays. It is furry and whitish gray...please don't say baby two!?

Hi and welcome muirhead77!

Good to see you here and if you have any questions, we'll do our best to answer them. We're still learning about the Black Eagle also, so we can all learn together.

From the information we have (and I can find), only one egg hatched, and Black Eagle Project Roodekrans believes it's the second egg. It's too late for the first one to hatch now, so only one chick again this year. As Jean stated, the black eagle chicks instinctively practice Cainism...the oldest kills the youngest usually within the first few days after the youngest hatches. It's rare to find a nest with 2 chicks.

As far as the white object in the nest, I'm not sure what that is. It's possible it could be egg shell from either of the eggs or something Emoyeni or Thulani brought in with nesting materials. Or it could be part of a meal. Sorry I can't be of more help there.

12:03PM CAT The cam is down again.