Big Red and Arthur check out the nest…Thursday in Bird World

25 January 2024

Good Morning Everyone,

Well, there was no peace in the house on Wednesday morning. Hugo Yugo wanted kitten milk (lactose-free milk), and there wasn’t any. Gosh, golly. You would have thought there had been some big international incident! It was all settled mid-afternoon, but goodness gracious. How can such a little thing be so loud!

There were hundreds, if not thousands, of people waiting for the first chance to see Big Red and Arthur at their nest. That moment they arrived on Wednesday, the 24th of January! The time was 0938.

Big Red flies in while Arthur is checking the egg cup. He must be calculating how many stick deliveries they will need to keep the Ns safe.

At one point, I thought Big Red had a limp in her right leg. There are no injuries or blood as also confirmed by Suzanne Arnold Horning. It has to be trying to walk through those sticks that made her leg look wonky.

Our Queen of the Red Tail Hawks will be twenty-one this spring. Goodness. She is decidedly my first love of all the birds.

A Red-tail Hawk visited the Decorah North nest. Immediately you can understand ‘why’ they use the RT hawks’ vocals to replace eagles! Watch the sound!

Helen Matcham caught Marri, the Peregrine Falcon fledgling of Xavier and Diamond’s at Orange on the tower. She has not dispersed. How wonderful.

Royal Cam chick’s first feeding on video:

Latest update:

The first egg at Moorings Park Osprey nest is expected anytime. Sally returned the end of December with Harry arriving back at the nest in Florida in early January.

Harry has been bringing in some nice fish gifts for Sally. Also notice – the construction is finished and these two will have a nicer season as the golfing gets underway below.

Jack and Diane are working on their nest in St Petersburg on Wednesday, too. Expecting eggs within a fortnight I all goes to plan.

They left and Diane returned. Will we have an egg Thursday morning? 

Missing Mini. 

Jackie and Shadow spent a lot of time Wednesday morning arranging sticks at the nest and trying out the egg cup.

E23 is growing – this eaglets eats and sleeps on the rails -. Proud parents check in to see how their little one is doing.

What goes in, must come out. Thank you for this great screen capture.

These two parents have been working to see that not only are they fed but E23 has lots of variety and the nest always has food.

Cal and Lusa are doing fantastic. Lusa has learned to grab bites from Connie’s mouth quickly before Lusa knows what is happening! Waiting til big sibling is full is also a good thing. Connie always seems to make sure Lusa is fed and Clive keeps the pantry stocked. Cal has been standing and doing attempts at walking and really working its wings.

R6 scampered out of the nest bowl today and was up by the rails.

Working on the nest at Dulles-Greenway.

Despite the heavy rain at the US Steel Bald Eagle nest, Irvin and Claire were there working to get things ready.

The eagles have been visiting the ND-LEEF nest since the snow…there are the prints to prove it.

The moli are hatching on Kauai.

For your reading pleasure, the story of migration from the POV of the Osprey. Tiger Mozone reposted this series today in our FB group and I thought you would enjoy reading it. In the coming weeks, I will be gathering up the new books for adults and children on ospreys and falcons as their season opens. The countdown is on for their safe arrival home in Western Europe. Tiger says, “This is an osprey thriller from ten years ago. The author was Paul Wildlifewriter and it is a gripping story. It was published in weekly parts and each edition was eagerly awaited.”

The US may list the Bumblebee as endangered, but globally, can we stop the use of pesticides to halt these tragedies? We need the pollinators!

Thank you so much for being with me today. If anyone is watching the Venice Golf and Country Club and there are eggs, let me know! Take care everyone. See you soon.

Thank you to the following for their notes, posts, articles, videos, and streaming cams that helped me to write my blog today: ’A, J, SAH’, Cornell RTH Cam, Explore, Helen Matcham, SK Hideaways, Holly Parsons, Sharon Dunne, Moorings Park, Achieva Credit Union, PSG Electric, FOBBV, SW Florida Eagle Cam, Carol Shores Rifkin, Lady Hawk, Window to Wildlife, WRDC, Dulles-Greenway, Pix Cams, ND-LEEF, Sharon Pollock, The Guardian, and Wildlife Kate.