Bird Cams Around the World

so I think it is a wait and see, right now. Are eggs viable. should not be but back in 2007 in Maine, adult male went missing for almost 2 days. Mom left to either to hunt or look for it. She was gone for I believe, for almost a day. It was cold and there was snow on nest. It was a storm. but she covered the eggs before she left. She returned adn so did male. WE thought he got held up becasue of storm.

those eggs hatched. unfortunately, chicks did not survive as parent s could not hunt becasue of bad storm

So I guess we need ot hope that things settle down. as of tonight , I believe something is still up. I this were my falcons nest, I would hop in car and go and investigate. But I cannot here.

some pciutres from today





they both leave

sorry Beth , I guess we were posting at same time

But something is still not right and i am not sure what.

this is who is at nest now



on FEb 1 this was mom

thanks Beth. I just put recorder on adn then downloaded and took off what I thought was pertinent

yes it was heartbreaking that year. Same year we watched S2 at demortel . that was a stressful time.

I still am hoping beyond all hopes that something good happens here

me either. and I do not think this is over.

B, B, and S, Great updates. What's your theory? Do you think this is some kind of a 'take-over?' Do you think the 'original' mom is still around? Do you think the eagles on the Osprey platform are the original eagles who are simply reinforcing their bond (by mating).
(The eagles would not know if the eggs are viable - would they??? Would they start a new clutch even with eggs remaining on the nest? Hormonally, wouldn't it be too late?)
This is so confusing...

my take is that we have lost one of Blackwater adults. thus only one incubating when it can get in.

I personally feel that we may have 3 eagles out there. but we will never know unless we see one on nest and 2 on osprey cam. One came on nest early morning while one from last night was incubating. incubating eagle left and the one that came in just sniffed, then left. I think it is a new one. why else would it not incubate.
I cannot make up my mind if it was mom or dad on nest last night

still time for a new clutch.
the bonding could have just been reinforcing but don't know

from this morning



next one shows one incubating and then new one on nest . The cam went black for 3 minutes but someone caught the two together as they had set their cam at 15 seconds. will bring htat over in a bit



2 on osprey cam now



some earlier pciutres form this morning

when night one was still on nest this one came to osprey cam . did notstay long





then this one came in adn no one on nest



later on








So it anyone's guess. I just hope these eggs disintergrate now

here is from Laurad on Maine forum. I still think one was a new eagle

I wrote a small program which captures images every 15 seconds. Here is a short video of the action this morning at 06:30-06:35 when both eagles were on the nest. I do not think either was an intruder. I could not tell which was the male or female and almost sensed the second eagle to come into the nest was larger than the one that spent the night - but I don't think the males stay on the nest during the night, do they? Sorry for poor quality, if needed I have the .jpg images and can supply them.

https://youtu.be/A4J9pah8m7w

Thanks, B & B - There has definitely been problems at the nest since the beginning...

I'm also wondering if something happened to one of the 'original' parents (I'm thinking of the pile of feathers found on the ground - posted on FB on 2-8-16, were seen 'over the weekend').

The O platform and E nest are approx. 1/4 mile apart; don't know whether they are visible to each other. Wonder how quickly an eagle could fly from one to the other....

(And yes, last season was a heartbreaker...)

an eagle would only take a few minutes to get that distance from osprey nest to eagle nest



I wonder if first eagle in video is part of the pair or not . I am thinking not.

keep watching when the pair come in. one lies on nest and sometimes sits. Hope they are not going to have an egg there.
lots of thoughts go through my head about what is happening. A lot think the both are still there but I am not so sure


no one on nest tonight

there are constantly one or 2 eagle son osprey platform

there was an eagle briefly on nest this morning. It sat by eggs and then left. woudl be nice to have streaming



then there was an eagle on nest this afternoon. the thing about this was it arrived at nest about 3 minutes after eagle left Osprey platform




what I find so interesting about all of this is we have 2 eagles that are a constant on osprey platform. ONe is there from early morning, and then tonight it was there after night lite went on It lay down in osprey nest for a bit and then sat for quite a bit. Hope it does not lay an egg there




she ate there today. my quality is not as good today as I am tired and sometimes I forgot to push play or pause



Now I know Lisa said they use platform for all sorts of things but if a pair is ready to nest and has no nest it will lay anywhere it can.

I really do not think both of these are our pair. maybe one is. If they are, something has spooked them from the nest.

some picutres from today

two eagles continue to frequent the osprey nest and 2 were on eagle nest this evening for a minute or so. Could not tell as blackwater eagle cam went black for quite a bit an d it also stopped a few times today

and today. do not know how long as cam stuck for about 10 minutes . osprey cam was still working but eagle one was stuck



It was gone when cam came back

8:44am
Looks like the cams are working... and the eggs on the eagles' nest have been disturbed. One egg is visible - and it looks like it may be broken or damaged.