Bald Eagles Tending Eggs

Or Maybe One Egg Has Already Hatched, We're Not Sure!

Keta Kosman
Activity at the bald eagle nest site at Jericho Park is heating up as eggs are close to hatching. One may have already hatched, if there are two eggs the eaglets emerge, almost invariably, three days apart.

One of the mates, possibly the male, is sitting not down in the nest bowl as they would if there were still eggs, but up out of the way a bit on the side of the nest.

I wait around, it is by the activity that we can tell if an egg has hatched. Unlike other times of the year when adult eagles have no need for a nest, only when there are young to tend to is there feeding activity going on in the actual nest.

Eventually the other mate does come around, and there is a switch at the nest, but I don't capture any feeding activity.

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It's very early in the season, I will be back in a few days to get footage of the adult wild bald eagle mates feeding the baby eaglets.

Published by Keta Kosman

Based in Vancouver. Publisher of Madison's Lumber Reporter with a wildlife photographer lurking just below the surface. Professionally an analyst to the forest products industry, specifically on the solid wo...  View profile

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