NEST ACTIVITY CONTINUED

7:17 M fly off.

7:21 H to attic.

7:21 H to upper branch.

7:29 M in with a stick.
He breaks off one of the smaller off shoots of the branch with his beak.

7:31 M to the spike

7:32 M to the atttic

7:43 vocals M15




7:53 both to the nest.


7:56 M to the spike. H moving branches.

7:57 M fly off - To stable area on post then to ground

8:00 H picks at cam strap M returns with a stick.

8:01 M picking at H's wing and tail she is not happy.

8:02 H to porch.

8:04 H fly off.

8:05 M fly off.

8:10 both back with sticks and trying to place them. M's was bigger.

Both went to west pasture. Synchronized stick gathering. Both came through pasture same time with sticks.

8:13 H to spike.

8:15 M to the porch.

8:17 H fly off.

H flew south past yonder pond. M still in attic.

8:37 H back with pine bough.

8:30 large. dead turtle in road right in front of pasture. I removed it and placed it in a safe place.

8:51 M to the nest both working on sticks.

wskrsnwngs: 8:50 I am headed home. H nest. M porch.

8:54 H to porch M in the nest.

8:58 M to spike and fly off.

9:00 M back with a nice branch. H vocal.
M aerating nest bowl.

9:04 M fly off.

11:00 both vocal as the perched on they outer branch. H flew off followed by M.

3.28 cam 2 panning shows no eagles in the pasture area or on the poles.
SWFEC team for all your observations!!

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/xHlKDfuQnEI

Who Returns With A Stick First? Out & Back Together 10-21-16

Harriet and M15 continued to add sticks this morning, five while I was there. Maybe they were having a contest when both flew to the west pasture together, searched for the best stick and then flew back together with the sticks. Their bond deepens in everything they do.

M15looks up at Harriet and "talks" to her


taking sticks back to the nest together


both tracking to the SW

NEST ACTIVITY CONCLUDED


5.58 Looks like H on the nest, just came in with what looks like pine. Then out to the porch

She went out to end of lower branch from the porch

6.22 Hear vocal call out

6.40 both are in the nest tree now

6.48 H leaves the porch/tree, M on the attic branch

Panning on cam 2 shows H at the pond edge

H leaves the pond edge and strolls around a palm tree trunk at the pond, at 6.54 she appears to be spooked away and heads to nest, 4 people are walking back from pond area on driveway carrying cameras, no bath or dip for H this evening I guess.

H in the nest and I think she may have brought a clump of grass/moss with her when she flew back to the nest from the pond.

7.04 H nestling down in the nest.

What is this in the nest?


I'm not sure what they are. I suspect some kind of seed pods attached to something they brought in. I see some different plant material in the nest that I haven't seen before.

7.08 M drops to the nest to join H, moving materials around.

7.11 M goes back to the attic after a discussion with H about where some of the nest material should go, H won of course.

7.12 H to the spike, then to the attic next to M, then back down to the nest and the material again.

7.14 bonding on the attic branch

7.16 both on outer attic branch

7.31 IR's kick on and all is well on the tree with Harriet and M perched side by side probably for the night.
SWFEC team for all your observations!!

NEST ACTIVITY - SATURDAY OCTOBER 22nd

Good morning! Enjoy the weekend!

Nest Observations Continued

4:37 bonding.

6:15 I am at the nest. Harriet is perched in outer attic. Let me look for M, not in nest tree.

6:21 H vocal

6:35. No sign of M in snags or other pines in nest pasture. Too dark to see on west pasture tree branches. He could be laying in the nest...

6:48 vocals more frequent by H.

NEST ACTIVITY CONTINUED

Harriet watching the power company across the street.


7:34 H flies to the NW and out of sight.

7:43 M in with a stick.

7:45 fly off

7:48 M back with stick'

7:40-7 :50 eagles on cell tower. Not h or m. M with stick from SW. H fly over wp toward cell tower. In dead tree. Trying for branch. M in with another stick. H to lower tree across road.

7:51 M spike to attic

7:54 M fly off

7:59 H in w stick

802 H back across road to dead tree.

8:03 one eagle left cell tower.

8:14 H in with a stick 8:15 to the spike and fly off.

8:33 cell tower eagle circles over H's tree and then flies Southwest.

8:35 H flies through trees SE turning South, way distant, and out of sight.

8:50 I am headed home. No one has returned.

10:18am Harriet to the nest with pine.

10:22 H flies off

12.40 - 12.50 No eagles seen in the pasture areas, at the poles or across over to yonder pond.

5.03 panning cam 2 sees one eagle on the pole behind the Pritchett property.

5:35pm M15 flies into the nest with nesting material.

M goes up to the attic branch

6:21 MI5 - I caught the nictitating membrane just as it was starting to close


Photo bomb


6.22 Harriet to the nest, M drops down and joins her

6.24 Harriet hops over to the porch after she and M moved nest materials about.

6.30 H and M at the pond but are watchful of the ppl that are by the fence on the driveway it seems, they just walked up there. Oh a few more there now.
SWFEC team for all your observations!!

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/HilAgdJsngU

Making Your Presence Known~H & M Work While "Neighbors" Watch 10-22-16

With M15 close by but unseen, Harriet spent the first 1 1/2 hours of the morning vocalizing and tracking from the nest tree. The neighboring eagle pair was perched on the cell tower. All four sticks were grabbed from the trees adjacent the cell tower. M15 watched the pair from the nest as did Harriet when she was not watching them from a tree close to there. It appeared H and M were simply reinforcing to this close neighboring pair that this nest and area is theirs. According to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, who tracks Bald Eagle nests, M15 and Harriet have 133 neighbors in a 25 mile radius. Their closest neighbor is 1 mile away.

M15 adds a stick he grabbed from a tree in view of the neighboring eagles


Harriet flies at and grabs a stick in a tree adjacent to the occupied cell tower


view of the nest from the west/Pritchett driveway entrance side of the pasture

NEST ACTIVITY CONCLUDED

6.30 H and M at the pond but are watchful of the ppl that are by the fence on the driveway it seems, they just walked up there. Oh a few more there now.

6:35 H leaves the pond delivers nest material to the nest.

M15


6:40 M leaves the pond to the oct.

Looks like a very small brood patch on M15.

M feaking on the oct, keeping that beak clean and sharp.


The day comes to an end in the pasture


6.54 M to the nest with a nice stick/branch, lol H may bet upended trying to place it with M under her tailfeathers

6:57 M working the cam strap.

M is alopreening H's tail

7.01 M goes up to the attic and H pulls at the cam strap

7:03 H to attic bonding

Both go higher and to the end of the attic branch

7:13 Both preening. Maybe perched for the night.
SWFEC team for all your observations!!