29 October 2024
Good Morning Everyone,
Greetings from a beautiful day on the Canadian Prairies. We hope all of you are well. Hugo Yugo and Baby Hope have the perfect idea for what to do on a cool fall afternoon.
At Melbourne, F24 is searching for prey for the triplets. https://youtu.be/f8zV8-Qp_zU?
How many times have we seen an immature eagle bring its very own fish tail to a nest? It happened at Captiva. https://youtu.be/0YrQh375GBY?
Beau and Gabby continue to work on their nest at NE Florida. We are a month away from eggs at all the nests (or thereabouts).
M15 and F23 continue work on their nest as well fortifying the crib rails. https://youtu.be/8BBKEm1CH4U?
Ron and Rose are busy at the WRDC nest!
Hope has been at the Port Tobacco nest on and off and flew in with a big fish late Monday morning.
No one has been at the Bluff City nest in Tennessee so far.
Duke Farms is working on their camera.
Gigi has been on the ND-LEEF nest. A male eagle has also been seen.
Eagle on the NCTC nest on Monday.
The fledglings are being seen. Now are they being fed?
‘A’ writes: “October 28: An empty nest but a couple of sightings during the day. During the morning, we think one eaglet was heard in the mangroves. The parents were circling overhead. Lady was seen with a fish, circling over the whole area. We were listening for alarm calls from the swooping currawongs and ravens, which alert us to where an eaglet might be. Early afternoon, we spotted an eaglet in a casurina by Wharf Pond – just over our heads, with a couple of currawongs in attendance. After a while, it flew off strongly, out of sight. Later, both eagles were reported with prey over the river, though both fed themselves and when seen again had no catch. Just after 3pm, I saw one adult circling over the Armory area. One eaglet spotted again in the area – it’s hide and seek . We watched as the eaglet, we thing SE34, hoped along a wire fence-line, with ravens pulling and poking it. It finally flew off along the pathway, landing clumsily in a tree. The swoopers found it again, both currawongs and magpies. By standing still, the swoopers gradually left and it was resting. We think it flew off again late. A long day for 2 eaglets out in the world.”
They are busy at the Decorah North Bald Eagle nest including eating fish on the nest! https://youtu.be/sT3OmgA-Ueo?
At SW Florida, M15 and F23 are like an exquisite machine working together in a kind of blended harmony. Just image when Harriet went missing. Did anyone believe that M15 would raise those two beautiful month old eaglets to fledge? He did. Did we ever believe seeing all those female eagles fight for fish on the nest with their worn talons that he would find a beautiful mate like F23? And just look. Their second breeding year together. I can’t wait! https://youtu.be/-tgJiE7otoU?
Gammatta and Yira are full of energy. https://youtu.be/MUnHxeRvIhM?
Breakfast at Port Lincoln. More fish and more fish. Wilko and Kasse are little eating machines. Aren’t they beautiful?
As we prepare for the Osprey breeding season next spring in the northern hemisphere, why not begin to grow your knowledge? I will be posting articles from the most basic to several theses that deal with specific aspects of the fish hawk’s behaviour.
Lily and Margot found!
‘J’ sends us a book recommendation (I have not read it yet), but I thought you might be interested:
Calico’s Tip for the Day!
Thank you for being with us today. Please take care. See you soon!
Thank you for to the following for their posts, notes, videos, articles, images, and streaming cams that helped me to write my post today: ‘A, J’, Nesting Bird Life and More, 367 Collins Street by Mirvac, The Real Saunders Photography, SW Florida Eagle Cam, NEFL-AEF, WRDC, Port Tobacco Eagle Cam, ETSU-Johnson City, ND-LEEF, Rohan Geddes and Sydney Sea Eagle Cam, tulsaducati, Androcat, SK Hideaways, Port Lincoln Osprey Cam, RSPB, The Guardian, Taschenbuch, Winnipeg Missing and Found Cat Watch.
