First, in my blog Birds and Drones Don’t Mix, the number of Tern Nests evacuated because of the drone crash on Huntington Beach in June 2021, was 3000 not 300 as I reported. Incredible. Can you imagine a whole generation of birds completely wiped out? That is what happened.
This morning Kincaid was waiting for his breakfast when I left to go for my walk. Louis brought seven fish on to the nest while I was away. Kincaid has a full crop. He is such a cutie. The sound is so good at the Kisatchie National Forest Bald Eagle nest that you can clearly hear the eagles chattering. Today, little Kincaid, all interested in what they were doing joined in with his own vocals. It was nothing short of adorable.
My goodness Kincaid is full to the brim! I wonder if that full of a crop is uncomfortable?
Are we heading into a food coma?
Louis is on the nest and Kincaid wonders, even with that huge crop, if he might get a few bites of fish!
Oh, gosh. How do you spell cute? Is it NE 26 and 27?
Samson did a great job of feeding his babies this morning. 26 and 27 both ate really well, had crops and were wonderfully behaved!
The storm has really wiped out the wifi at the Port Lincoln Osprey Barge. No news on Ervie. I am sure they are OK but I wonder how much Ervie has had to eat. With choppy weather, Dad excels at fishing but I doubt Ervie is good enough at fishing to be successful in stormy weather.
Big Red and Arthur both came to the Fernow Light Stand Nest today at 06:57 to check on it. Arthur stayed longer actually rubbing the nest cup to check on it. We are about six weeks away from egg laying – unless Big Red is early!
Falconer Laura Culley will be joining in on the morning chat discussions. It is a great time to learn everything about Red-tail Hawks that you thought you would never want to know.
This is the 25th anniversary of Cornell’s Backyard Bird Count. It takes place this year from 18-22 February. It is free and I urge all of you to join in. This is citizen science at its best – helping to establish which birds are where and how many before the spring migration. Please do take part. Please go to https://www.birdcount.org/participate/ to sign up. You can participate for as few as 15 minutes a day. You can use the Merlin Bird App on your phone or use your desktop or laptop computer. It is fun and it really helps understand bird population growth and decline.
Thanks everyone for joining me today. My regular blog will be coming later in the afternoon for the next week. Take care. Stay safe. See you soon!
Thank you to the following for their streaming cams where I took my screen captures: NEFlorida Bald Eagles and the AEF, KNF, and Cornell Bird Labs Red-tail Hawks.
Thanks Mary Ann for this newsletter!
Little Kincaid is so
Stuffed and has such good parents! Dads a good fisherman ! They are right in the lake and that is good.
The little ones at Samson and Gabbys nest are so adorable. đź’•đź’•
So glad the weather is better there now too! So glad to hear the Big Res and little Authur have visited their nest !
Thanks for the link on the bird count and all the photos!
Have a great evening and take care!
Linda
Samson and Louis are quite amazing. It looks like both of them have a good source of fish and they don’t have to bring on the carrion. Mind you M15 has a stocked pond but he seems to like to check the roadkill. I worry so much about rodenticide for the wee ones. It is exciting to see Big Red and Arthur and now Lady and Dad have come to visit the WBSE nest. No Daisy, thankfully, Linda.