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608pm
Ma incubating eggs and has a bedding stuck to her beak.


620pm
Ma up and stretches out her wings and turns the eggs and resettles on the eggs.


644pm
Ma incubating eggs

This is a video from this morning of Dad and his sticks Enjoy!

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Skipper, Great video!

706pm
Ma turns her eggs and then settles back on the eggs

It has been rather quiet this past hour...

I have been fascinated by Ma's ever so careful steps backwards

as she moves outside of the nest bowl at 1814 hrs : Using her wings for balance...




Here she is digging in the bowl at 1826 hrs :





And finally here Ma has just finished a poop at the 9oclock position outside of the nest

and is settling back in at 1827 hrs :




I've also enjoyed all the birds bobbing and scooting underneath the nest !

Cheers,

Cheryl

Well I missed Pa's entrance, so not sure what time exactly he arrived.


However, I did see Ma exit the nest at 7:24 pm, at the 9 oclock position of the nest.


Here is Pa, now settled in the nest bowl, at 7:25 pm :




And of course he must adjust that stick!

Gotta love Pa ....

Cheers,

Cheryl

Hi, Cheryl :hello:

Yes--you just gotta Dad -- him and his sticks are just too funny!!

Speaking of funny, here are a couple of funny things that I saw Mom do today:

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Skipper

739pm
Dusk and Ma on the nest incubating eggs, frogs croaking in the darkness.


Hi Cheryl, Nice captures!

Skipper, thanks for the videos, great action!

Good night all.:hello:

Skipper.... I love both your videos! How I love Dad so intent on those sticks! But such a good sport as he's interrupted to sit on the eggs!

SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2011

6:51 a.m.
Mom's white head is slowly coming into the view on the nest as daylight begins to arrive.

6:54 a.m.
Mom is wide awake. She suddenly tosses her head back and calls out. I didn't hear a response but Mom is again very relaxed so she obviously isn't alarmed about anything.

6:58 a.m.
Mom has now tucked her head between her wings and gone back to sleep.

7:02 a.m.
Mom is awake again after a short nap.

I'm out

Regal eagle surveying his/her Kingdom on what looks to be a gorgeous morning in Sidney

Good morning jkr, Dede.
Thanks Skipper for the vids. They are always a nice watchable length. Not too long.
Pa is a most endearing eagle .
Welcome to Cheryl.

Good Morning all at the Sidneynest

Thanks for all the observations and s`caps and video`s

Mom? she sees them flying



I don`t know what Mom saw but I thought the first one was a black bird , a raven? and the other ones are normal little birds, but thats what I thought

A short video of Ma this morning. Her neck feathers look wet and disshevelled. She snapped at one of the little birds flitting around the edge of the nest.

Ma incubating

11:20 a.m.
Mom? incubating; sound of drums in the background and chirpy birds very close by. Looks to be sort of sunny with little to no wind.

Yikes!!! Just as I posted this, the drums got INCREDIBLY LOUD and I can hear yelling and another kind of bird giving an alarm call (don't know what it is -- not a raven).

May have to turn this off because I'm not really into the drumming -- giving me a headache

11:30 a.m.
Noisy drums continue so I turned off the sound :-( Mom gets up off the eggs, wing stretch and flies off over 3; moments later Dad lands at 9 and rolls the eggs and scooches down over them.

ma? brooding at 12.29 pm

11:34 a.m.
Hmmm--something odd about the feathers on Dad's neck -- they are all dishevelled

11:38 a.m.
Just played the video back that I recorded when Dad landed in the nest just now. His leg feathers are wet -- so that's probably what's up with his head/neck, they're wet. He's shaken his head a couple of times perhaps to shake off water? I don't think it's raining so maybe he was in the water at some point?

11:40 a.m.
Dad called out a couple of times (or at least it looked like; I have sound turned off)

11:45 a.m.
It must be raining -- Dad keeps shaking his head.

11:47 a.m.
Wow!! Something must be up! Dad calling out and suddenly takes off over 5. I can see something flying around the nest and Dad just jumped into the nest calling. Turned on my sound and there is another eagle calling off cam.

11:48 a.m.
Dad shuggles.

11:50 a.m.
Dad settles in over the eggs. Then he and Mom? (off camera) calling back and forth -- somewhat frantically!

My monitor isn't large enough to have both cams on screen at the same time so I can't see what going on on the Wide-Angle, but I'm almost certain that there were intruders flying around the nest.

Is there anyone else here? I'd like to process the intruder video that I have but I can't do that and watch the nest and record observations at the same time :-(

Dad just before he take off..


Dad just got back.


A raven? was in the neighborhood.

Dad called Mom , they keep on calling. Dad fly of the nes.

11.58 AM Mom fly away

:hello: Hi Skipper, my recorder is on and my eyes are open, I do the observation until you are back. My video I put on later...I saw a black bird so I think it was because of the raven. :hello:

11.51 AM Dad is facing 2

12.07 PM Dad made one short call.

12.11 PM Dad call 5 x, looking up in the tree.

12.29 PM Dad calls.

:hello:Hi, Anna - thanks so much for being here Sorry it took so long but my computer is slow and the Hancock Media Gallery is even slooooooower

Here is the link to the video:

Possible Intruder: mediagallery/media.php?f=0&s=20110319122355412

If you have video (especially from the Wide-angle cam, please post it I'm not sure if the birds that I see flying around in the video are the LBJs or other birds

12:41 p.m.
Dad? incubating facing 11; rumbling noise -- maybe thunder? Or maybe wind in the mike? Looks like the sun is coming out now. Can't take the sound of the drums so signing out now :hello:

It is nice to see it back a video, when something happen it happens always so quick. The raven becomes a juvie eagle ? Some part at the video there is nothing to see, but I like the calls between Mom and Dad.


Here is the video ...The intruder

Dad laying comfort...a bit of sun


bbl

:hello: Hello Sidney, Skipper and Anna
Will go back and watch videos

1:33 PM
Tranquil scene now on nest
Looks like Pa in his sleek pose


1:52 PM
A re-positioning, not suree who...Ma?
Lovely songbird chatter on nest now--love this nest for that!
(also airplanes and traffic--not so nice)