Thursday in Bird World

13 March 2025

Hello Everyone,

Update: Hartley lays second egg and at Port Tobacco the first and second eggs are pipping! Nothing at Sauces yet.

It is +2 and sunny and oh, my goodness, spring is really in the air. No doubt I will write about some huge snow storm hitting us mid-April as it often did on my eldest son’s birthday, but, for now, there is a lovely sound in the garden – bird song!

The deck and gardens are getting cleaned. As you can see there is still some snow and ice. These two wanted a wee bath! But, the water is now out an the bath turned upside down in anticipation of snow arriving Thursday morning.

Dr Sharpe’s talk on the Channel Islands Eagle Restoration! https://youtu.be/f2x_7KyTA90?

Thank you so much for archiving that talk! So much to learn.

At the nest of Jackie and Shadow, it is impossible not to melt when you see those little ones.

SK Hideaways caught this cuteness on video: https://youtu.be/1kiyqM1Y-t4?

‘B’ writes that the weather is turning again. Poor Jackie and Shadow have a nest full and can’t get a break with the weather!

“The weather at Big Bear is looking better today (Wednesday) than I had expected, given the previous forecasts.  But the bensweather.com prediction now shows the heaviest snow tomorrow (and snow continuing Friday), so still a good time to lay in supplies! ”

Bodie. Not so long ago, this magnificent juvenile eaglet was the size of those little bobbleheads. It is hard to remember. Bodie was our first miracle that gave us hope.

I have to admit that like many of you I have been so captivated by the triplets at Big Bear and Bodie that I have not checked on other nests today. This will be a short posting!

GLG has returned to the Royal Cam chick after foraging. What a gorgeous sky call. https://youtu.be/Nl3qnUZKGCo?

Meanwhile, on the Cornell Campus, Big Red and Arthur are busy working on their nest. We will have eggs in a fortnight! https://youtu.be/Ebb5ZPRcZTs?

White Storks are incubating eggs at Knepp Farm.

One egg has hatched at Moorings Park.

No eggs for Edie and Lloyd at Captiva yet. It is late. Maybe the nest will be empty this year.

Food is scarce or not existent at the Kistachie E3 nest. What in the world is wrong? Please send good wishes to them, please.

Important condor dies of lead poisoning. Please let us end this painful and needless way for our wildlife to die.

There is concern that the only surviving egg at Sauces is not viable. Still waiting at Port Tobacco and also for that second egg at the nest of Bonnie and Clyde. We had all hoped that Jak and Audacity would have a family this year. We will give it a couple more days.

‘L’ writes that the Bald Eagle Cam at the Sutton Centre in Bartlesville, Oklahoma is up and running with eagles on the nest.

‘J’ sent a note that Keke at Superbeaks had fledged and returned to the nest successfully.

The birds are migrating.

Howard was the Bald Eagle that the great folks at Wild Heart Ranch helped through a series of ‘boots’. Look at how well he is doing now.

Poachers being arrested that have been killing our beautiful storks. The Akkar region is in Lebanon.

The killing of migrant birds for fun in Lebanon (and other areas) has been of ongoing concern.

Thank you for being with me today. I hope you can get outside and smell the freshness of spring. See you soon.

Thank you to the following fort their notes, comments, videos, articles, and streaming cams that helped me to write my post today: ‘B, J, L’, IWS, SK Hideaways, FOBBV, NEFL-AEF, Cornell Bird Lab, Knepp Farm, Moorings Park Osprey Cam, Window to Wildlife, Kistachie National Forest E3 Bald Eagle Nest, US Weather Service Hastings Nebraska, Wild Heart Ranch, Soraya Z Mouawad, Research Gate