Live eagle cam, Big Bear Mountain, near Los Angeles

[Debp]

31 minutes ago, ladypeartree said:

the people there must have heard you ...  apparently they expect the eggs to start hatching anytime from February 29th 

Time sure flies... almost there.

Will be interesting to see if all three eggs hatch.

[ladypeartree]

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[ladypeartree]

Loved this mornings tug of war .... yes this is a lovely tasty meal but you are not having it so get off the nest and give me my turn lol 

[Neighbor]

7 hours ago, Debp said:

Time sure flies... almost there.

Will be interesting to see if all three eggs hatch.

Especially if one or more are a double yoke- LOL

[Debp]

I rewound the video.   One of them was rearranging a couple of sticks.

[ladypeartree]

I was showing this to some of my grandchildren yesterday and they were amazed by it especially when I told them how big the bords actually are and they realised how high the tree was  but the youngest ( she is 4 years old ) wanted to know why they broke their nest ..... I understand what she means as it doesnt look as comfy when you see all the sticks but she didnt realise the white stuff was snow as she has only seen it once in her life 

[Debp]

19 minutes ago, ladypeartree said:

I was showing this to some of my grandchildren yesterday and they were amazed by it especially when I told them how big the bords actually are and they realised how high the tree was  but the youngest ( she is 4 years old ) wanted to know why they broke their nest ..... I understand what she means as it doesnt look as comfy when you see all the sticks but she didnt realise the white stuff was snow as she has only seen it once in her life 

Oh, that's cute....broke their nest! lol

Yes, the nest is smaller than last year.

We are due more rain coming in late Sunday through Wednesday I think it is.

While I especially enjoy hearing it, I know people and animals that are out in it have a hard time.   

I guess the rain storms could have whittled away the next.

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@Neighbor @other one are you still watching?   

[Neighbor]

Btw the largest Bald Eagle nest known was at St.Petersburg, Florida, USA  at three tons. Yet eagles do not make the largest of bird's nests, not even close. One Golden Eagle nest  at Scotland was some 15 feet deep. Incubation mounds of  the Mallee bird at Australia  can weigh in at  300 ton. Really??? 300 tons. that's quite  the mound if that is correct.

Locally we do have lots and lots of Osprey that build large nests of massive tree branches especially on our tall freeway light poles. One dropped a fish directly on my windshield one day. Bombs away?

While kayaking the many inland Florida and Georgia river ways I have come upon  eagles, hawks, and ospreys up real close if only for a moment or two as I skimmed the waters of their fishing holes.

Plus of course my own infamous adventure  with likely forty pelicans roosting for the night in  a cypress tree. Oops! Mr. Bumbles strikes again.

I just forgot myself and wanted a picture at post sunset when they had settled in for safety at night. I forgot my flash was set on my camera.  Click-FLASH, forty startled pelicans set off into the night sky  not knowing how to land again at night onto the trees. Dumb humans in the woods on rivers at night, geesh.

It was the very first permitted midnight river kayak run to be allowed our ranger guide had instructed; "Ssh be very quiet just drift by, do not disturb the birds, especially the pelicans as we make our first bend in the river, the cypress if you look close into the dark is just full of them!"

Oh okay, "FLASH!"

Oh oh! The whole tree just shook with pelicans taking  a startled launch into the dark. Nice photo though of their pre flash peaceful resting.

Anyway, yes I am watching the Big Bear Valley Eagle nest Camera often. And taking my own pictures on occasion.

I once slept, in a sleeping bag perhaps on that very slope. Woke up in the morning at the bottom at a cabin's "yard"-with most all of my clothes still back at the top of the hill. My sleeping bag and I in it had "skied" on the pine needles down the slope slowly as I slept. Oops again. Hiya folks, coffee ready by any chance?

[ladypeartree]

remind me to never go camping with you  

[Neighbor]

1 hour ago, ladypeartree said:

remind me to never go camping with you  

Ha camping, that became taking a 32 foot RV, complete with sewing room for my wife's use, around the eastern seaboard of the USA.

If you saw the scene from Robin William's movie RV with the side awning of his RV flapping in the breeze, my wife actually did that one day. Ripped the awning off it's mounts highballing it through a  wooded Floridah campground. She would wrap that thing up to 85 miles an hour  on the turnpikes and one night  on 301  at Floridah, USA. Used to scare me no end. I would tell her, hey we are driving a giant bag of splinters, let's not crack it up. - Fun memories in retrospect.

Anyway back to nesting birds; they did their transfer at about 6:25 AM  with Shadow bringing another big curved stick to the nest. They transferred  duty without much conversation. Neither having their morning coffee yet I guess.

I do hear  Jackie flying about in the area and calling. So I think she will be back on nest duty pretty soon. Will she too bring a curved stick  for building up a crib rail for the eaglets to be?