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By: IrishEyes (offline) on Thursday, February 25 2016 @ 12:29 PM EST
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By: IrishEyes (offline) on Thursday, February 25 2016 @ 12:49 PM EST
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9:48am
Windy......love the river view

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Lone tree by the river

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By: IrishEyes (offline) on Thursday, February 25 2016 @ 12:57 PM EST
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Wonderful morning on this nest ....... seeing Mom and Dad Honeycomb made my day........they both look wonderful ....... so healthy and fit.

1:57am
N Cam is on patrol
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By: amd (offline) on Thursday, February 25 2016 @ 01:02 PM EST
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By: IrishEyes (offline) on Thursday, February 25 2016 @ 01:09 PM EST
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By: IrishEyes (offline) on Thursday, February 25 2016 @ 02:47 PM EST
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11:44am
Watching the cam on patrol and no sign of the Honeycombs

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By: karenbills (offline) on Thursday, February 25 2016 @ 03:31 PM EST
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I was just talking to David Hancock regarding the ravens at HM and here is his statement regarding this intrusion:
Hancock here: Re Harrison Mills Pair and Annoying Ravens
Wonderful capture but the incredibly aggressive actions by the ravens do not bode well for our eagles. Well at least it offers them some learning experience with the pair -- or perhaps family of ravens. Ravens should already have their young by now and perhaps this is a teaching trip for them to show their young how to control eagles.
If Ma and Pa learn how to cope with this intense aggression they might well succeed in guarding their eggs -- otherwise such aggressive ravens will simply defeat them. We think of our bald eagles as reasonably bright, and in many ways that they adapt to the newly evolving urban environment attests to this, the raven is probably the world's smartest living bird. So my point is that it is hard not to expect such ravens to cause trouble.
In this clip you can see how one raven distracts the eagle while the other raven simply gets into the nest, here to only poke among the feathers, but it could have been to easily remove an egg.
Let's hope our eagles gain from this and learn how to effectively guard their eggs when the time comes. We generally only speak of humans as the basic predator of eagles but here is a clear reminder of how a smaller bird, such as a raven, can outwit and potentially defeat an eagle.
Thanks, Bev, for being on top of this interesting behavior.
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By: IrishEyes (offline) on Thursday, February 25 2016 @ 03:46 PM EST
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