Cam 1 is back online mid morning finding M15 incubating the eggs. However, there is no panning or zooming today from cam 1 & the other cams are offline. They are being worked on & hopefully will back up tomorrow!

F23 returns to the nest for an incubation switch. While on the nest, F23 starts to wrangle a big clump of moss and tries to spread it and move it around while incubating quite the challenge the wind was not helping either!

F23 starts to zip (preen) her tail feathers and then bam! A wind gust lifts her up and spins her around the nest! Better keep your tail feathers down F23!! M15 arrives with a thin stick and he steps on F23 and puts the stick on her back. She gets it off her and gets up and heads to the attic for a break while M15 takes over incubation duties.

The weather starts to turn rainy and the wind increases as M15 is on the eggs keeping them warm & dry. F23 comes back to the nest and takes over you can see how dry the nest cup is when M15 gets up! F23 then takes over keeping the eggs warm and dry in the rain. ♥

A little while later, F23 gets up and goes to the attic vocal calling for M15. She drops back down to the nest and back up still vocal. She returns to the nest and we hear M15 is in the upper branches vocal. F23 leaves and M15 comes to the nest to incubate the eggs. M15 stays on egg duty until F23 returns near dusk and takes over the night shift.

We are now officially on Hatch Watch! The eggs typically hatch between 3439 days of incubation and today Dec 11th, egg #1 is 33 days & Egg #2 is at 30 days. This means that on Friday Dec. 13th, egg #1 will be at 35 days so we will be looking for that external pip! Eggciting days ahead!

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

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 M15 incubating F23 to nest for shift change
01:48 F23 wrangling a clump of moss
03:22 Wind is not helping F23 fix the moss
05:27 F23 begins to zip her tail feathers
05:47 wind gust lifts & spins F23 around the nest
06:30 M15 arrives with a thin stick & puts on F23 & steps on her
07:05 F23 gets up squeaking to the attic M15 settles on eggs
08:57 M15 incubating the eggs in the rain keeping warm and dry
09:26 F23 to nest
09:36 Notice how dry the nest cup is! F23 incubates in rain
10:31 F23 up to attic vocal calling for M15
11:20 F23 back to nest and back to attic vocal
12:10 F23 back to nest
12:43 M15 is heard in the nest tree vocals
13:10 F23 to attic M15 to nest
14:08 M15 to attic leaves for night F23 has the night shift

Egg #1 laid Nov 8th at 2:38pm
Egg #2 laid Nov 11th at 6:15pm

Here is an amazing video of a chicken embryo developing and hatching! It is the same process for an eaglet!
"Chicken Embroyo Developement" by Poultry Hub Austraila!
   • Chicken Embryo Development  

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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