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By: MaryF (offline) on Wednesday, September 20 2017 @ 03:59 PM EDT (Read 705717 times)
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By: MaryF (offline) on Wednesday, September 20 2017 @ 04:00 PM EDT
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By: MaryF (offline) on Wednesday, September 20 2017 @ 04:00 PM EDT
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E5 and E6 (2014) We lost our E5 to some unidentified cause.
Some history about this nest ~~
Thanks to the Pritchett family for installing, maintaining and running these cams on your property. This is a family owned and run business. The cam and nest are located 60 feet up in a slash pine in a horse pasture on the Pritchett property.The first cam was installed in early September, 2012.
A mature pair of bald eagles, Ozzie & Harriet, had been coming to this nest since they built it for the 2006-2007 season until Ozzie's untimely death in September of 2015. Before building this nest in 2006, the pair had a nest on the opposite side of Bayshore Road, across the street. This location is now known as Eagle Landing. The old nest was deliberately killed by someone to get rid of the eagles nest in order to remove the tree. The nest on the Pritchett property is now occupied by Harriet and her present mate, M15.
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Since the cam has been in the pasture tree --
Two eggs were laid November 26 & 29 in 2012 -- Both chicks, Hope and Honor, fledged successfully
Two eggs were laid Nov. 17 & 20 in 2013.
Only one eaglet, E4, fledged successfully E3 sadly passed away on Feb. 2 at 41 days old of unknown causes but most likely a respiratory problem.
Two eggs were laid on November 19 & 22 in 2014
Just one of the eaglets, E6, fledged. We lost E5 on Jan 20, 2015 at due to unknown causes.
Two eggs were laid on December 19 & 22 in 2015
Both eaglets fledged but shortly after were attacked by an owl. The younger one, E8, was lost for a week and found by three folks from CROW. E8 was transported to CROW where he received intense treatment and rehab. E8 was finally released into the nest area on August 18, 2016.
Two eggs were laid in November of 2016
Egg #1 was unviable and never hatched. E9 hatched, was the apple of everybody's eye, and successfully fledged
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OLD NEST --across the street from the Pritchett property
The pine tree previously used by perhaps two different nesting pairs of Bald Eagles for more than a decade died. An unknown individual knocked off the bark in a ring around the tree which severs the roots from the needles and starves the tree. The county had monitored the nest since 1990 and recorded 23 eaglets, confirmed fledglings.
History of the Old nest in the "killed tree". We DO NOT believe these eagles were Ozzie and Harriet
LE-26A: Donald road Nesting History
Year History
90-91 Active, 2 Fledglings confirmed
91-92 Active, 1 Fledgling confirmed
92-93 Active, 2 Fledglings confirmed
93-94 Active, 3 Fledglings confirmed
94-95 Active, 2 Fledglings confirmed
95-96 Active, 3 Fledglings confirmed
96-97 Active, 2 Fledglings confirmed
97-98 Inactive-- 98-99 Active, 1 Fledgling confirmed
99-00 Active, 2 Fledglings confirmed
00-01 Active, 2 Fledglings confirmed
01-02 Active, 1 Fledgling confirmed
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E6 our 2014/15 fledgling at the pasture pond
02-03 Active, two adults observed at nest tree 4/21/03 -- (perhaps this is when Ozzie and Harriet took over the nest--we do not know for sure)
03-04 Tree observed dead 9/29/03. ES Staff inspected the tree on 9/29/03
and found the tree had been girdled by machete or hatchet. Birds have
been observed in the territory but did not nest this nesting season.
04-05 Active, Two adults observed incubating posture in Dec '04. 1 chick
fledged about April 6, 2005
05-06 Active, 1 fledgling confirmed
06-07 Inactive *Built a new nest north of Bayshore Rd (nest #LE26B-our present nest)
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Pritchett Property Nest 2006 - present
This nest has been labeled LE-26B
Ozzie and Harriet relocated their nest for the 2006/07 nesting season to its present location on the Pritchett property.
They had 11 fledglings confirmed from this nest on the Pritchett's property. M15 and Harriet have had 3 confirmed fledglings so far.
Year - History
06-07 Active; Built a new nest north of Bayshore Rd: 2 chicks fledged
07-08 Active; but fledglings not confirmed
08-09 Active; 2 chicks
09-10 Active; 1 chick
10-11 Active; 1 fledgling confirmed
11-12 Active; 1 fledgling confirmed
12-13 Active; 2 fledglings confirmed (Hope + Honor)
13-14 Active; 1 fledgling confirmed (E4)
14-15 Active; 1 fledgling confirmed (E6)
15-16 Active: nest now occupied by Harriet and M15---2 fledglings confirmed (E7 and E8)
16-17 Active: 1 fledgling confirmed (E9)

Our 2015/16 eaglets, E7 and E8
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By: MaryF (offline) on Wednesday, September 20 2017 @ 04:01 PM EDT
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Aside from losing several of our eaglets we have had our share of happenings at this nest. ---
In 2015 ~~~
OZZIE!! ~~ What can we say about Ozzie? We lost the handsome, smart, wonderful 1st Dad of our nest on September27th, 2015. S0 sad!!! All of us who watch this nest and love this family will always miss this wonderful, intelligent, entertaining eagle!
Ozzie photographed by Desiree Deliz--Ozzie's #1 fan.

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In 2016 ~~~
Perhaps the most important of all of the dramatic happenings at this nest in 2016 was the complete and total loss of the nest probably due to weather, old age, and leaping eaglets. Fortunately for those of us who watch this nest Harriet and M15 chose to rebuild their nest right in the same tree and the same spot--what a relief!!
Here is a look at the nest before and after the collapse

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2017 ~~~
We had our own catastrophe just before the start of our new season. In the very late summer of 2017 on September,11trh, hurricane Irma, hit a good part of Florida including our nest area in North Ft. Myers. We had an overflowing pond, a large tree in the pasture was uprooted and although our nest stayed right where Harriet and /M15 built it the nest tree itself sustained quite a bit of damage. Believe it or not even out snag trees stayed standing!!! We waited patiently to see if out pair of eagles had safely weathered the hurricane. We were rewarded a few days later when they showed up safe and sound!! 
Below is a before and after picture of our nest tree.
--- courtesy of whiskrsnwings/Vicki
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By: MaryF (offline) on Wednesday, September 20 2017 @ 04:01 PM EDT
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By: MaryF (offline) on Wednesday, September 20 2017 @ 04:02 PM EDT
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By: MaryF (offline) on Sunday, October 01 2017 @ 06:41 PM EDT
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By: DinkeyCreekgrl (offline) on Sunday, October 01 2017 @ 06:55 PM EDT
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