After M15 flushed the intruder from the nest tree & returned to the attic, he eventually wanted to drop down to the nest to incubate the eggs. The video begins with him on the nest at just past midnight (00:40am) when F23 drops down from the attic. On her way down, her wing bumps cam 2 and moved it downward. The view from Cam2 now will be with an off center view unfortunately unless either M15 or F23 hit the cam from the other angle and moves it back

I included the footage from Cam 1 of F23 coming to the nest (can't see the cam2 part) and her inching over to M15 to get him up so she can take over incubation. M15 flies to the attic.

M15 stays on the attic for just over 3 hours and wanted his egg time again so he drops to the nest. F23 was not wanting to get up M15 inches closer to her, picks at her feathers which prompt her to rise up over the eggs but not move off them. M15 is looking at the eggs he then nudges her to move and with a little push off the eggs she goes M15 takes over incubation and F23 goes to the attic. They will switch one more time before dawn and F23 is on the nest in the morning.

The cam op pans Cam 1 over to view Cam 2 for some closeups of it. Seems our cam2 is not having much luck again this year last year M15 & F23 brought in a lot of big sticks and covered up the lens blocking the view! We are fortunate to have multiple cams to view the eagles in case of a mishap like this one! Thank you for watching!

To see the highlights below, please click on the timestamps to advance to that portion of the video.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 F23 drops to nest & bumps her wing against Cam 2 moving it
01:01 Cam 1 F23 to nest (bumps Cam 2) M15 incubating, moves a stick
02:06 F23 inches closer to M15 he gets up & flies to attic
03:02 M15 back to nest he wants egg time!
03:40 M15 inches closer, picks at F23's feathers
04:09 F23 sort of gets up but is still blocking M15 from eggs
04:36 M15 sees eggs & pushes F23 out of the way he gets to incubate
05:50 F23 to attic
06:25 In the morning F23 on the nest
06:47 Cam 1 pans for closeups of Cam 2 showing it tilted downward

Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk

Thank you SWFEC , hosted by Dick Pritchett Real Estate, for allowing us the opportunity to view these amazing eagles.
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