My Season 13 Playlist on my channel includes ground videos from my summer visits to the nest pasture. There are also four ground videos from early summer (after the cams went off for Season 12), in my Season 12 Playlist. Here are the playlist links, if interested:
Season 13: • SWFL Eagles Season 13
Season 12: • SWFEC Season 12 2023/2024
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Video opens with F23 arriving with a big load of nest material/grass. She has to work the wind to come in just right. F23 promptly grasses M15 upon landing! M15 leaves the nest, and we have an incubation switch, M15 to F23. With the cooler Florida weather, F23 uses the grass to tuck around herself and her precious eggs.
M15 arrives with fish gift #1, a partial fish. F23 leaves for the CSS (church side snag) but does not take the fish with her. Perhaps she needed to cast and was not ready to eat. F23 returns later and M15 leaves on his break. He returns with another fish gift, this time a whole fish! F23 rises and take the fresh fish to go, flying to the W pasture and out of view. When done eating, F23 flies to the pond for sips and wading. She flies out of view heading N when she leaves.
F23 returns to the treetop branch. She drops to the veranda, then the nest, to collect the partial fish. She takes the fish to go, again flying to the W. CamOps checks out something brown and white in the W pasture. It is too small to be an eagle, and does not move. I am not sure what it was. There are many trees and snags to perch on in the W pasture. When done eating, F23 flies back to the nest. CamOps takes another look at the object in the W pasture; it is still there after F23 returned to the nest. Video closes with F23 incubating. Time stamps below, if interested. Click on any time stamp to advance to that part. (Note: The cams are skipping; hopefully they can be fixed remotely soon.)
Egg #1 laid 11824 @ 2:38PM
Egg #2 laid 111124 @ 6:15PM
Time stamps: Provided in DVR time; actual time is on the cam clock.
00:00. Opening.
00:06. F23 w/grass.
00:25. F23 arrives, grasses M15; Cam2/Cam1 (00:46).
02:31. M15 flies in with fish gift #1.
02:57. 360 Cam view of delivery.
03:13. Cam1 view of delivery.
04:08. F23 leaves for the CSS, does not take the fish.
04:44. F23 on the CSS.
05:12. Close view of M15's partial fish.
06:03. M15 rises for the incubation switch to F23.
07:43. 360 Cam; M15 with fish gift #2.
07:59. Cam1 view of the delivery.
08:34. View of both of M15's deliveries.
09:18. F23 takes the fresh fish to go.
09:57. Cam2 view of the 2nd delivery.
10:36. F23 takes the fresh fish to go.
10:55. F23 heads W with the fish.
11:37. F23 to the pond from the W.
12:55. F23 heads N from the pond.
13:07. F23 returns to the nest tree.
14:05. F23 to the nest from the veranda, takes the partial fish to go.
14:37. Cam2 view, F23 takes the partial fish to go.
15:04. CamOps checks out something in the W pasture.
15:12. F23 flies back to the nest tree from the W pasture.
15:38. Cam2; F23 returns to the nest.
16:03. CamOps looks again at whatever was in the W pasture.
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