Anyone watching the baby eagle cam?

[sangria]

Little floofy eaglet in the house!!
They named him/her DC. Mom and dad are me president and First Lady.

dceaglecam.eagles.org/

[sparrowsong]

I've looked a couple times but have only seen the First Lady sitting on the nest. I didn't see the baby.

[sangria]

He just hatched today or yesterday. When I looked about 15 min ago mom and dad were standing there eating a fish at the nest.

[aurora]

I checked yesterday after pixy posted but didn't see anything, and again just now. I suppose it's something I have to keep watching to see the chick!

Thanks for the reminder.

[sparrowsong]

Do the male Eagles sit on the nest too and help with feeding? My phone insists on capitalizing Eagles.

Eta: from the smithsonian

"Eagles construct their nests near water in tall trees or on cliffs using large sticks. The nest is lined with twigs, grasses and other soft materials. Each year, a pair works together to build a large stick nest high in a tree or on a cliff.

Sometimes a pair reuses the same nest for years (such as a pair that nests at Great Falls, Maryland). In Florida, bald eagles nest almost year round; they begin nesting from March to May in other areas. Since these nests are used year after year, they may become very large.

Bald eagles lay two, occasionally three, eggs that are incubated by both parents, in turns for 34 to 36 days. Often only one chick survives, but if food is plentiful they may rear two or occasionally three. Young birds fledge after 12 weeks and remain with the parents for another month."

[aurora]

Baby is visible right now!

[mcsangel2]

WOOP WOOP

Mom got off the egg and the eaglet and is eating some fish, probably to feed baby, right now!

[pixy0stix]

IT WAS SO FLUFFY!

[mcsangel2]

Mar 18, 2016 12:44:52 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

IT WAS SO FLUFFY!

AND SO WOBBLY!

[twotrue]

Well now I am. :-)

[sangria]

Mom or Dad is just sitting on it right now. How the heck do they not suffocate?

[mcsangel2]

MOM IS FEEDING BABY!

[litebright]

This is the first time I've watched it, and I wondered why she was snapping at the air. Then I clicked back and forth between the camera views a few times and realized she had a dead fish in the nest with her and there are flies buzzing around.

It's so neat to be able to watch these kind of things.

[noradog]

When she was feeding it it almost looked like she pecked it in th head or missed its mouth and got food in its eye. It's mesmerizing.

[mbcdefg]

They're feeding him again!  (heart)

[leeba25]

omg, momma snuggling back in on top of baby was so ridiculously sweet.

[pixy0stix]

I wonder if the other egg isn't going to hatch?

[buffalogal]

Mar 18, 2016 14:41:49 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I wonder if the other egg isn't going to hatch?

I believe I read that the eggs were 4 day apart in laying- so maybe in a couple of days the other will hatch? hopefully?

[aurora]

Mar 18, 2016 14:41:49 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I wonder if the other egg isn't going to hatch?

It says it was laid 4 days later than the first, so it would make sense if it hatches on the 20th.

[aurora]

Oops, posting just a tad too slow behind buffalogal.

[ginap]

Mar 18, 2016 14:41:49 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I wonder if the other egg isn't going to hatch?

I was reading yesterday that the other egg was laid 3 or 4 days after the first one, so I think it still has a few days to catch up.
Ahem, jinx aurora and buffalogal. 

[pixy0stix]

LOL! Oh good. Thanks everyone!

[buffalogal]

good to know we all got the same egg laying memo!!

[elleblue]

The baby is being fed right now!

[sangria]

Mar 18, 2016 17:10:00 GMT -5 elleblue said:

The baby is being fed right now!

DAMMIT I keep missing it

[muffin0]

I hate when they name them! 

Because it makes when something bad happens THAT much worse.

I watch the SW eagle Cam from Florida and late last year we lost Ozzie. He and Harriet were fan favorites, he got injured not long after their babies hatched, and then another guy moved in. Once Ozzie was released from the rehab clinic and he came back home he and new man fought and Ozzie got injured again and ended back at the clinic where he died a couple days later.

It was awful. Thankfully the new man stuck around and they currently have two babies. (and surprisingly both babies are still alive - the past two years one has died around a month old) 

It's AMAZING HOW quickly they grow!

[AAM2012]

Mar 18, 2016 21:20:59 GMT -5 muffin0 said:

I hate when they name them! 

Because it makes when something bad happens THAT much worse.

I watch the SW eagle Cam from Florida and late last year we lost Ozzie. He and Harriet were fan favorites, he got injured not long after their babies hatched, and then another guy moved in. Once Ozzie was released from the rehab clinic and he came back home he and new man fought and Ozzie got injured again and ended back at the clinic where he died a couple days later.

It was awful. Thankfully the new man stuck around and they currently have two babies. (and surprisingly both babies are still alive - the past two years one has died around a month old) 

It's AMAZING HOW quickly they grow!

I was just going to post their link as well. It's hard not to get attached when they name them and people tend to forget that the things that do happen are regular occurrences out in the "wild".

dickpritchettrealestate.com/eagle-feed.html

[wackadoo]

Baby #2 is on it's way today - pip detected!

[pixy0stix]

Mar 19, 2016 15:08:41 GMT -5 wackadoo said:

Baby #2 is on it's way today - pip detected!

YAY!

[wackadoo]

feeding now and new baby making a break for it!

Dang it, they just sat on them again.