Hurricane Hillary impacting the Los Angeles and Catalina Island area…stay safe eagles!
20 August 2023
Please send your most positive wishes for our eagle families as Hurricane Hillary approaches their nesting areas.
The cam is down at the West End Eagle nest of Thunder and Akecheta and showing highlights. The area was told to evacuate late Saturday. There are reports that the stormy weather is hitting the Los Angeles as I write this. Please send your most positive thoughts to our bird families.
The camera at Big Bear- home to our beloved Jackie and Shadow – is really shaking and it might not be online for very long.
The scene at Two Harbours home to Cholyn & Chase.
Fraser Point home to Andor and Cruz.
Keep them all in your hearts. Hurricane Hillary is the first storm since 1939 when a tropical storm made landfall in Southern California. It is a cat 4, 145 mph. Let us hope that the cooler waters help to slow the storm.
I went to the UK as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1990 and received my PhD from the University of Leicester in 1993. After three decades of university teaching, I retired to devote my time to the study of raptor behaviour. I am particularly interested in Ospreys and am working on a long term project on third hatch survival and siblicide in these raptors. My blog is a result of a fascination with my local wildlife and the desire to encourage others to love and care for birds! I live on the Canadian Prairies and prior to the pandemic travelled a lot. I am questioning the use of aviation fuel at the moment as we all strive to help our planet. My early research was in politics and art including British public statues exported to Southeast Asia and Vietnam Resistors that contributed much to Canadian ceramics. Books and articles were published on those subjects over a period of 3 decades. Now I am working on books for children so they can learn about the challenges our raptors face.
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Thank you! I know that the ones we knew about in Florida hunkered down but I saw the terrible effects of Ivan and Emily on Grenada to the birds…fingers crossed, Michael.
Yes, it was Michael…they all seem to be showing up here and there so it seems that the eagles on the cams are accounted for…so grateful. Thank you for all your good wishes for them!
Sadly, this is but a taste of our near future, and that of the birds. Persuading our representatives to act decisively and immediately on climate change must be our number one priority or this will soon be the new normal.
The eagles in Florida did a good job hiding from Hurricane Ian, let’s all hope the same follows for this side of the USA 🙏🤞❤️
They did and I sure hope these got out of town the minute they sensed the weather changing.
Prayers for them! 🙏
Absolutely! Thank you Linda.
Let us all hope for the better.
Thank you! I know that the ones we knew about in Florida hunkered down but I saw the terrible effects of Ivan and Emily on Grenada to the birds…fingers crossed, Michael.
🤞🤞🤞
Yes…and they did well!!!!!!!!
Glad to hear that 🙏
Yes, it was Michael…they all seem to be showing up here and there so it seems that the eagles on the cams are accounted for…so grateful. Thank you for all your good wishes for them!
The instinct for survival has won over the hazards of natural phenomena. 🙏🙏🙏
It certainly has, Michael!
I am so glad and happy.
Thank you, Michael.
You’re welcome.
Sadly, this is but a taste of our near future, and that of the birds. Persuading our representatives to act decisively and immediately on climate change must be our number one priority or this will soon be the new normal.
Yes, undeniably so.