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04/11/2012 06:17:18 PM · #526 |
| I've been watching every day, but today they almost seem unrecognisable. I can't believe how much they've changed in one day. |
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04/11/2012 08:44:33 PM · #527 |
A bit of an update: The eaglets are 15, 14 & 11 days old today. The factoid on the screen says
they can thermoregulate at 21 days.
They've lost their natal, fluffy down and have some gray down and definitely look 'bottom heavy'.
Maybe that's where their crops are? feisty little guys and still, oh, so cute. Mom looks a bit
harassed, (but maybe that's anthropomorphizing) and the whole scene, as they are about to go to
infrared is just amazing. |
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04/11/2012 08:48:29 PM · #528 |
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04/12/2012 01:09:47 PM · #529 |
I'm only seeing two eaglets...??????
But I think how mom/dad keep fluffing the nest and waddling into it - even though the kids refuse to sit under her - is adorable.
Message edited by author 2012-04-12 13:16:45. |
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04/12/2012 01:18:35 PM · #530 |
| Ah! Just saw the third one. He's camera shy... |
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04/12/2012 01:56:50 PM · #531 |
wow, i haven't checked in 2 weeks and the eaglets have grown A LOT.
They're so cute. |
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04/12/2012 02:08:05 PM · #532 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
I'm only seeing two eaglets...?????? |
The social stream was going crazy earlier when the third one disappeared from camera view. A lot of people thought one had fallen over the edge. Amazing how many people love these little babies! |
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04/12/2012 02:14:41 PM · #533 |
| The three eaglets look great. The growth rate of birds is amazing. |
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04/12/2012 09:15:18 PM · #534 |
those eaglets - and their parents - made it through another day. Fascinating. (But you knew that)
The kids were sprawled all over the nest today, but now are corralled under a parent (I can't tell which one)
for the night. Not that all parts of them fit underneath, but apparently enough is there to keep them warm
and safe. While cute - how can they not be - they are not the sweet little fuzzballs of only days ago.
What will tomorrow bring? Stay tuned, or better yet, just get hooked on watching the action.
The are in infrared now. Color returns with daybreak. |
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04/13/2012 11:21:55 AM · #535 |
Morning fact - taken from the viewing page:
Those little babies are between 2 and 3 pounds now and measure about one foot, "beak to tail."
Gives a little scale to what we are watching, doesn't it. |
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04/13/2012 02:41:07 PM · #536 |
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04/13/2012 11:32:14 PM · #537 |
I have been watching the Decorah nest with total fascination (for over a year now), but was also checking in on a nest here in Colorado. Sadly the Colorado nest has failed. These babies were a couple of days older than our Decorah eaglets. One was lost during a cold spell when it couldn't yet thermoregulate. The other two were lost Wednesday night during a fierce chilly rainstorm - It can be a very tough life for baby eagles. Makes our Decorah babies all the more special.
edit to add: here's a link to the RRP blog which appropriately discusses issues relating to intervention vs. non-intervention and nest failures....Notes from Amy
Message edited by author 2012-04-14 11:23:20. |
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04/15/2012 03:11:48 PM · #538 |
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04/15/2012 03:19:40 PM · #539 |
That is very sad. But it made me remember the snow storm last year with the decorah eagles. Both parents stayed in the nest sitting on those babies, keeping them warm, and the parents covered in snow, sopping wet.
The decorah eagles seem to be incredibly good parents.
Yeah for our eagles!! |
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04/15/2012 06:54:56 PM · #540 |
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04/16/2012 04:42:00 PM · #541 |
| I'm dying. Kids want to get under mommy, and she can't figure out how to fit them... |
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04/16/2012 04:43:55 PM · #542 |
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04/16/2012 05:38:02 PM · #543 |
Geeze... She's plucking a pigeon, preparing supper...
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04/16/2012 08:00:19 PM · #544 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Geeze... She's plucking a pigeon, preparing supper... |
A pigeon? Say it ain't so! |
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04/16/2012 08:59:46 PM · #545 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Geeze... She's plucking a pigeon, preparing supper... |
A pigeon? Say it ain't so! |
Ah, yes. Deb, I checked, it is not necessary to say more.
Requiescat in pace |
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04/18/2012 09:46:45 AM · #546 |
Whoa - it's a wet and windy day at the Decorah Eagle nest this morning.
Somehow all those not-so-little eaglets have piled under Mom - but she
is getting plenty of the weather. |
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04/18/2012 09:49:11 AM · #547 |
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04/18/2012 09:54:27 AM · #548 |
I have recently learned that Great-horned owls can take Wild Turkeys. And, there is the Philippine Eagle which eats monkeys. In addition, a Black Vulture may have taken my nephews small dog from the back yard in Austin, TX. Nature is rough sometimes. Makes "swimming with the sharks" seem like a romp in the park.
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04/19/2012 01:07:55 PM · #549 |
It's raining in Decorah, Iowa.
The camera / view looks like an impressionistic painting come to life. |
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04/19/2012 03:19:13 PM · #550 |
Kids!!! If it's sunny, they can't wait to get outside. Now that it's raining, they're all fighting to get under mom :-)
She is the very definition of stoicism. |
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