The opening thumbnail and following photos are from MLiz Photos who was at the nest today! M15 & F23 mated on the church snag & M15 brought in sticks & F23 moss to the nest! Thank you MLiz photos for these amazing shots.

F23 woke up on the nest this morning after her overnight incubation. We got some nice closeups of the brown spots/coloring on her tail white feathers! We will keep an eye on these to see when she molts them out over the summer & new feathers grow in if they are pure white or if these spots will be unique to her.

M15 flies in early with a big wad of grasses some of them end up on F23's head! She gets up & flies to the church side snag to preen while M15 covers the egg with some grass and then takes over incubation duties. M15 will get up and rearrange the nest rails before joining F23 on the snag. They mate on the snag making sure that egg 2 will be coming soon and then F23 flies back to the nest to incubate and roll the egg.

F23 will fly to the pond this morning and take large sips of water. A minute later she spits the water back into the pond. Then she takes another sip. Perhaps the first sip was too large and came back up (F23 is fine) She flies to the office oak and will come back to the nest with a long string of moss! M15 gets up and starts fixing the sticks at the rails he moves a big one in front of F23 to the other side of the nest. M15 then will go the veranda and fly off for more sticks!

We will be watching F23 tomorrow (Nov 11th) to see if she lays her second egg. 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 Photos stills taken by MLiz Photos today
00:43 Brown spots on F23's white tail
01:29 M15 brings grass some lands on F23's head
03:19 F23 to church side snag to preen
05:15 M15 rearranging sticks at rails joins F23 on snag
05:59 M15 & F23 on snag
06:54 Mating on snag
08:04 F23 back to nest
10:05 F23 rolling egg
10:44 F23 at pond taking large sips of water
12:13 F23 expels/spits water/liquid back into the pond probably took too big a sip prior
12:24 F23 takes another sip of water
13:34 F23 flies to office oak
14:03 F23 brings in long string of moss M15 works on sticks are rails
17:55 M15 picks up stick with moss on it places on other side of nest
19:02 M15 finishes Veranda and then flies off

Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk

Many thanks to MLiz Photos for giving me permission to showcase her amazing photography & provide this update.

Photo credits: MLiz Photos

MLiz Photos Facebook Photography page:   / lizgandphotos  

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