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Lynne--I enlarged your last picture a bit---look at those blood feathers!!

Good Afternoon Bev, Mary, Carolyn and all who watch this nest

Thanks Mary for doing a close up yesterday on one of the photos.. here are a few more from today

blood feathes also known as pin feather are actively growing from the follicle and protected by a sheath.


A little feather lesson Thanks Donna
Vaned feathers have a central shaft through which the blood supply flows when the feather is growing, when it is “in the blood” and has a bluish color. When the feather has fully grown the blood supply recedes and the center shaft (aka as the rachis) becomes hollow, hardens, and turns white. The calamus (or quill) is the base of the rachis, anchored in the follicle. (The stiffness and hollowness of the calamus of the feathers of certain birds made them ideal for holding ink and writing -- hence writing quills, or, since the Latin word for feather is penna, writing pens !)

Close ups of the eaglets..

Happy Earth day and what a great day to celebrate the return of our wonderful Bald Eagles

The kids are just growing leaps and bounds.. with rainy weather they can not fit under mom anymore but they sure try

Images courtesy of Pennsylvania Game Commission

I have quite a few old pictures to post--bear with me! I figure we can never have too many baby pictures!!

These first ones are from 4/17 ---

Zonked and sleeping with a fish


Am I cute? It gets a little boring just lying around here


A great big bite

Images courtesy of Pennsylvania Game Commission

Last ones from 4/17 ---

That is one big mouthful!!


Big crops and yellow clown feet

Images courtesy of Pennsylvania Game Commission

A couple from 4/18 --

Oopsie---one eaglet decorated the other!!


A nice dual feeding---love these!!


And one lonely s'cap from 4/19 --

A nice wing picture showing those new blood/pin feathers

Images courtesy of Pennsylvania Game Commission


Here we have some pellet pictures from 4/20 courtesy of Terri Justick --

Working on hacking up a pellet



Whoa---there it is!!