#675853 - 04/07/11 10:25 PM
Re: Live feed of Eagle being hatched.
[Re: Sol Duc]
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It's going to be non stop killing trying to feed a family of five. 
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#676216 - 04/09/11 02:46 AM
Re: Live feed of Eagle being hatched.
[Re: SBD]
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DANG.... Sol Duc's wife must've finally seen that "other" avatar.
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#676320 - 04/09/11 04:47 PM
Re: Live feed of Eagle being hatched.
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Dang, she's a sh!tty housekeeper.
Flies are swarming the assortment of carcasses.
Wonder if she's hanging on to them so she can later let the babies pick off the maggots for appetizers?
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#676335 - 04/09/11 06:27 PM
Re: Live feed of Eagle being hatched.
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DANG.... Sol Duc's wife must've finally seen that "other" avatar. OK... maybe not?
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#679866 - 04/27/11 06:40 PM
Re: Live feed of Eagle being hatched.
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Check out the size of the chicks!
I watched them wakeup and when they crap, they shoot it out of the nest. Projectile pooping.
Edited by Jgrizzle (04/27/11 06:56 PM)
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#679897 - 04/27/11 08:54 PM
Re: Live feed of Eagle being hatched.
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Thanks for the reminder...brb!
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#679904 - 04/27/11 09:27 PM
Re: Live feed of Eagle being hatched.
[Re: Sol Duc]
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Man have they grown since I last tuned in.
Are all three still alive, or did the latecomer get cannibalized?
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#679976 - 04/28/11 12:03 PM
Re: Live feed of Eagle being hatched.
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Man have they grown since I last tuned in.
Are all three still alive, or did the latecomer get cannibalized? All three accounted for!
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#680201 - 04/29/11 03:21 PM
Re: Live feed of Eagle being hatched.
[Re: Sol Duc]
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I see! Man, those are faces only a mother could love.
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#680448 - 04/30/11 03:19 PM
Re: Live feed of Eagle being hatched.
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Both parents gone for the moment. Full view of all three eaglets.
You can really tell their hatching order as the oldest largest bird is already sprouting flight feathers. As time goes by, odds start stacking up against the baby of the bunch.
"The eggs hatch in the order they were laid. Eaglets break through the shell by using their egg tooth, a pointed bump on the top of the beak. It can take from twelve to forty-eight hours to hatch after making the first break in the shell (pipping). Once the eggs begin to hatch, the female's vigilance becomes nearly constant. The male provides the majority of the food needed by his rapidly growing family. Eventually the female will take up her share of the hunting, but in the early days, all of her attention is given to the young eaglets in the nest.
Chicks - Sometimes two chicks will survive, but it is not uncommon for the older eaglet to kill the smaller one, especially if the older is a female, as females are consistently larger than males. Should one chick decide to kill its sibling, neither parent will make the slightest effort to stop the fratricide.
Newly hatched, eaglets are soft, grayish-white down covers their small bodies, their wobbly legs are too weak to hold their weight, and their eyes are partially closed eyes, limiting vision. Their only protection is their parents.
Eagles feed their young by shredding pieces of meat from their prey with their beaks. The female gently coaxes her tiny chick to take a morsel of meat from her beak. She will offer food again and again, eating rejected morsels herself, and then tearing off another piece for the eaglet.
While on the nest with very young eaglets, parents move about with their talons balled into fists to avoid accidentally skewering their offspring.
Eaglet Growth - The young birds grow rapidly, they add one pound to their body weight every four or five days. At about two weeks, it is possible for them to hold their head up for feeding.
By three weeks they are 1 foot high and their feet and beaks are very nearly adult size.
At three or four weeks, this eaglet is covered in its secondary coat of gray down. In another two weeks or so, black juvenile feathers will begin to grow in. While downy feathers are excellent insulators, they are useless as air foils, and must be replaced with juvenile feathers before an eaglet can take its first flight, some 10 to 13 weeks after hatching."
Between four and five weeks, the birds are able to stand, at which time they can began tearing up their own food. At six weeks, the eaglets are very nearly as large as their parents.
At eight weeks, the appetites of the young birds are at their greatest. While parents hunt almost continuous to feed them, back at the nest the eaglets are beginning to stretch their wings in response to gusts of wind and may even be lifted off their feet for short periods.
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#680606 - 05/01/11 04:39 PM
Re: Live feed of Eagle being hatched.
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What amazes me is that 3 BIG birds like that could spend all that time perched high in a nest in the full blazing sun and the constant wind without getting dehydrated.
Ever think about the fact that their only source of water while they're up there is the moisture in the carcasses daddy brings home?
Babies must have some STOUT kidneys.
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#680911 - 05/03/11 02:32 AM
Re: Live feed of Eagle being hatched.
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So when are these things supposed to hatch? I see some bigger ones but I don't see the eggs.
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#680914 - 05/03/11 02:52 AM
Re: Live feed of Eagle being hatched.
[Re: Bigjim]
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Eggs hatched about a month ago.
There are three HUGE chicks huddled up with mama.
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#680915 - 05/03/11 02:59 AM
Re: Live feed of Eagle being hatched.
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What amazes me is that 3 BIG birds like that could spend all that time perched high in a nest in the full blazing sun and the constant wind without getting dehydrated.
Ever think about the fact that their only source of water while they're up there is the moisture in the carcasses daddy brings home?
Babies must have some STOUT kidneys. Birds excrete uric acid, not urea. It requires much less water.
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