July 30 2017

The Channel Islands kids have all fledged and the kids have been named!

Washi K72 (F) the Two Harbors fledgling has been visiting the old Two Harbors nest so we have been able to see some of those visits.
There was no cam on the new TH nest this season so we missed the majority of this season!

The West End panned out view cam shows the fledglings K-73 (M) Pascoe & K-74 (M) Haku soaring about the peaks!
No cam on the nest this year; high winds knocked out the cam!

The Bald Canyon Cam is not working at the moment ... the fledglings K-76 (M) Wrigley & A-32 (F) Keena have also been visiting the nest to rest and for food drops!

The Fraser Point fledglings are all male and they were named as follows: A-02 (M) Henry, A-03 (M) Theos & A-04 (M) Barrett
As there was no cam on the new FP nest we were not able to watch the kids grow!

Fledge Dates

Wrigley fledged June 28th at 5:47am - Bald Canyon Nest
Keena- fledged July 2nd at 1027 am - Bald Canyon Nest

Henry, Theos & Barrett - Unknown Fledge Dates

Washi confirmed as a Fledgling on June 26th - Two Harbors Nest

Pascoe & Haku confirmed as Fledglings on June 21st - West End Nest

This information was compiled by CHIL ... many thanks to Pat and Jann for maintaining the list of names as the names are released by the Institute for Wildlife Studies.

01/A, the Bald Canyon female, has been named Keena, Irish for Brave.
15/A, the Bald Canyon male, has been named Wrigley.

A-02, a Fraser Point male, has been named Henry, in memory of her husband.
A-03, a Fraser Point male has been named Theos, which is Greek for god.
A-04, a Fraser Point male, has been named Barrett.

09/A, the Fry's Harbor male, has been named Leo.

A-05, the Smugglers female, has been named Tama, which is Thunder, Native American origin.

A-09, the Pelican Harbor female, has been named Tina, in memory of an avid IWS supporter who passed away in December.

07/A, the Pinnacle Rock female, has been named Maxiwo Eneq, which is Eagle Woman in Chumash.

K-72, the Two Harbors female, has been named Washi, which is Japanese for eagle.

K-73, a West End male, has been named Pascoe, Cornish for child born at Easter.
K-74, a West End male, has been named Haku, (hah-koo) which means "a friendly greeting" in Chumash.

Meet the Class of 2017 - Channel Islands - click on link below
http://z7.invisionfree.com/CHIL_EagleCA ... opic=11696

Many thanks to Pat for this terrific journal of this year's activity on the Channel Islands

Dr. Sharpe and Nate recently visited the Sauces nest and they retrieved some egg shells for analysis ... hopefully we will gain some information on why all 8 eggs broke!

Here is Dr. Sharpe's post from IWS on FB

Nate and I excavated the Sauces nest yesterday to try to recover some eggshells for analyses. We found about a dozen pieces that the Montrose Trustees will have analyzed to see if there are obvious problems with the eggs that can explain why at least 8 eggs were laid and broke this season.

Here is a picture of them at the nest ... compliments of IWS

Hi Debs and friends here.....

It's gratifying to hear of the many successes this season on different nests. It is even more gratifying to know they are going to try to figure out why Sauces kept losing its eggs.
They surely tried.
smiles to all who love these eagles and eaglets,
carolyn

August 8, 2017

Carolyn ... i totally agree and I am anxious to see what the testing of the egg shells shows! BTW great to see you here

Washi continues to visit the former Two Harbors nest!

Some captures from yesterday August 7, 2017

Dad delivers a fish to an MT nest; with no sign of Washi Dad decides to eat his "gift"

August 7, 2017 - Washi - Two Harbors Juvenile Visits the old TH nest

August 8 2017

The WE kids are still in the nest area ... here are two captures of them soaring about the WE territory.