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Friday February 17, 2017

Happy Friday everyone!

Weather forecast for the day... a beautiful Wisconsin winter day.



Blair and Thunder spent the night on the nest tree again last night Vocals were heard early then around 6:30 Thunder went to the nest and Blair flies off around 6:41.
She comes back in with a corn stalk at 6:44. At 7:08 am they were both on the den branch and mated
video from Keith https://youtu.be/zCzHV1BQbog
From that point till abut 8:07 they were on and off with sticks and corn stalks and then they both leave at 8:07
8:09 am Blair comes back to the nest with a corn husk and then goes to the den and casts a pellet at 8:43
9:12 am Thunder in with food, Blair whines to him
9:18 Blair leaves the den and 9:19 Thunder leaves the nest and goes to the den and leaves the food
9:27 Thunder leaves
9:30 Blair comes to the nest and eats the food. no idea what it was
9:57 Thunder back in with a stick joins Blair on the den

So far they have been on the nest tree and bringing in grasses and sticks. 2 mating's have occurred and they were spot on



10:03 mating
10:20 Blair leaves the den and comes back at 10:22 with grass with vocals
10:43 Blair to the front perch Thunder goes to the den at 10:55 and leaves
10:57 Thunder comes in with grass and joins Blair on the front perch
11:33 Thunder leaves front perch
11:53 Blair leaves front perch



Morning clips from Keith Thanks Keith https://youtu.be/I1w-yjm5ZoI

Good morning. Thanks for starting the day here Photo

8:34am We got some close ups of Blair this morning.


Do you like the feather on her beak?




KB morning clips. https://youtu.be/I1w-yjm5ZoI

KB first mating (yes there have been 2) https://youtu.be/zCzHV1BQbog

This has been a busy morning with the eagles staying around the nest most of the morning. They have been bringing in more nesting material. Thunder brought in food for Blair and waited for her. She came to the nest later and ate it. I am getting excited with the matings being seen at the nest more often now. Blair has been staying close to the nest too. Since we don't know her history we will just have to keep watch and celebrate whenever that first egg arrives.

9:16am


10:00am Both work on the nest.

Saturday February 18, 2017

Good Morning to all who love and watch this nest! What an exciting way to start the day, Thanks Erikas9999 for the screen cap of the unwelcome visitor!

Weather forecast for the day



First going to start of with the exciting attack of Blair and Thunder on the raccoon on the nest! Thanks Keith for the video of the live action! https://youtu.be/Ea06zpDdvdU

Mr Raccoon arrived on the nest at 11:18pm the 17th crawled up, ate nestovers and cleaned up



Then curled up on the nest and slept through night, surprisingly on the nest bowl that Thunder is so proud of.. need some restoration work!!!

February 18, 2017



Good morning. Thanks erikas9999 for the picture of the unwelcome napper in the nest overnight. That raccoon was big and stayed all night. The eagles chased it off the nest when they arrived.

KB eagles chase raccoon off the nest. https://youtu.be/Ea06zpDdvdU

Unfortunately the eagles have not visited the nest tree since they chased the raccoon off. They are probably out having breakfast.

Saturday continued...

wake up call at 6:32 am.. One of our eagles, looked like Thunder was staring down at it from the front perch



at 6:33 the swooping started...



Bottoms up! over the side

Saturday continued

Eagle on the back porch watching...



after the raccoon was chased from the nest there were no signs of eagles or anything the rest of the day or night wonder where they were hanging out..