Live eagle cam, Big Bear Mountain, near Los Angeles

[Neighbor]

3 minutes ago, other one said:

We had a 5.8 here in Oklahoma a couple of years ago, and I was in the shower.

Oh yeh they can get nasty can't they! The Sylmar quake of 71 woke me up as I was flying across the room from my bed and then into the wall.

Been in many a quake over the decades at So Cal.  I've been on ladder when one hit, was once trapped between a stucco wall and a spiral staircase that was treating me like a pingpong ball. I just kept getting batted between wall and metal spiral stair railing.

Don't have that at Floridah, while the N.C. Appalachians wiggle and shake quite often.

Do those eagles build on dead trees like our Osprey do?

[other one]

1 minute ago, Neighbor said:

Oh yeh they can get nasty can't they! The Sylmar quake of 71 woke me up as I was flying across the room from my bed and then into the wall.

Been in many a quake over the decades at So Cal.  I've been on ladder when one hit, was once trapped between a stucco wall and a spiral staircase that was treating me like a pingpong ball. I just kept getting batted between wall and metal spiral stair railing.

Don't have that at Floridah, while the N.C. Appalachians wiggle and shake quite often.

Do those eagles build on dead trees like our Osprey do?

I've seen them build on a platform on top of a poll at Yellowstone.

[ladypeartree]

7 hours ago, Debp said:

Jackie laid a third egg!!!

You can view all three eggs at about the 11 minute mark on this video...

 

 

she is going to want more than a small fish and a twig for this !!!!!

Edited February 1, 2024 by ladypeartree

[Neighbor]

From Bird Fact:

"The stand-out feature of a Bald eagle nest is size - the average nest measures around 1.2 to 1.5m in diameter (4 to 5ft) 60 to 120cm deep (2 to 4ft). Bald eagles add around 1 to 3ft of new material to the nest every year. The largest Bald eagle nest, found in St. Petersburg, Florida, was 2.89m in diameter (9.5ft), 6m (20ft) deep, and weighed almost 3 tons!"

I am guessing that thee tons of nest  is not sitting on the branch of a live tree. Hey largest know nest was at St.Pete! land of the Osprey. Maybe I should look closer in the future when I see what I am thinking  is an Osprey diving to it's prey at one of our many lakes.

 

[Neighbor]

Local hawks drop their prey from the sky onto my back yard then retrieve it to dine leisurely  leaving me skins and bones to pick up. Haven't had an eagle nor an osprey  in the yard to my knowledge. Wouldn't that be a trip?! A couple tons of dead sticks and mounds of bird droppings, Ha!, try to get a permit for dead tree removal with a eagle's nest in it- bet that would be like finding and then pulling teeth from a chicken.

[other one]

Oh my it's snowing

[ladypeartree]

not again poor birds 

[ladypeartree]

I REALLY want to go build a bird house in that tree so she can get some shelter ... the nest is not as deep this year so she gets less shelter from the winds than she had last year poor birds 

[other one]

I'm told they wouldn't use it.

[Debp]

16 hours ago, other one said:

We had a 5.8 here in Oklahoma a couple of years ago, and I was in the shower. Lasted about 30 seconds.  The tub I was in was bouncing me so much my feet were coming off the tub. 

Scared the daylights out of me. My wife was in the bedroom and couldn't stand up, and she was yelling at me, asking me what I was doing.  It's funny now, but during I thought the house would come down.  We did get cracks in several of our walls

They are very frightening.   Our 1994 one was 6.7.   They say for each point higher, it feels ten times more.