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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Traveshamockery on May 07, 2012, 07:56:42 AM
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OMG - I cannot stop watching this. There is an eagle's nest in Minnesota with an eagle cam where two eggs were hatched. One of the eaglets fell from the nest last Monday (75') and died. The other eaglet (about three weeks old) got his right wing stuck in the nesting material and was rescued by The Raptor Project and fixed up and was put back in the nest late yesterday afternoon. Apparently the mom and dad eagles were circling and know he's there but have not yet visited their baby who has been named Harmon. They said they had about 48 hours to put him back in the nest for mom and dad to take over care of the baby.
You can watch live for his mom and dad to hopefully come back. There are other neat videos there of the babies hatching and being fed by mom. I have a feeling if mom and dad don't come back soon, they will go back in and get him.
http://www.mnbound.com/live-eagle-cam/
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Cool. Amazing how they can get a camera up a tree 75 feet and keep it going (solar, I know, but still....)
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Cool. Amazing how they can get a camera up a tree 75 feet and keep it going (solar, I know, but still....)
The mom and dad haven't come back yet. I hope they don't abandon their baby.
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The mom and dad haven't come back yet. I hope they don't abandon their baby.
I thought I saw a comment that said they were going to wait till tomorrow before getting the eaglet down from the nest. Seems a long time to wait without food.....
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Aww.....
Poor little thing. I hope they rescue him soon.
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I can't watch for too long because it really is upsetting to see him up there all by himself. I'm not an expert on eagles for sure but it seems like Mom and Dad would have come back by now, or maybe I'm wrong.
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Poor thing was manhandled by peta type liberals. They probably stunk him up good. They won't be back.
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Poor thing was manhandled by peta type liberals. They probably stunk him up good. They won't be back.
I disagree. He was handled and taken care of by The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota. They may be liberals perhaps, but that doesn't matter. They took care of this poor little guy and fixed up his wounds and maybe the parents will care for him, maybe they won't. This apparently happened at another eagle nest in Richmond, VA and the parents came back after two days and cared for their little eaglet. They also say that they can place him in another nest with eaglets of close to the same age and those parents may take care of him.
If none of that works, he will be raised by humans.
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Baby hawks:
http://metobs.ssec.wisc.edu/aoss/cameras/hawkcam-flash.html
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Last year, one of the hawks prematurely fell out of the nest when testing his wings. The parents never abandoned him and somehow ended up back in the nest after about a week.
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Baby hawks:
http://metobs.ssec.wisc.edu/aoss/cameras/hawkcam-flash.html
Oh great! Another nest for me to watch. I think I have about five now. But that's okay - it's so neat to watch them.
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OMG - I cannot stop watching this. There is an eagle's nest in Minnesota with an eagle cam where two eggs were hatched. One of the eaglets fell from the nest last Monday (75') and died.
So--the eagle has landed?
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Sorry--Just couldn't resist that.
But the good news is momma and papa ARE back and are taking care of the eaglet. Awwww...I can see how you got drawn into this.
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Sorry--Just couldn't resist that.
But the good news is momma and papa ARE back and are taking care of the eaglet. Awwww...I can see how you got drawn into this.
Yes, Mom and Dad just showed up and it's such a sweet thing to watch.
:yahoo:
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I see either momma or daddy with the baby eaglet! :yahoo: I was so upset looking at the baby all alone.
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I see either momma or daddy with the baby eaglet! :yahoo: I was so upset looking at the baby all alone.
It's just a beautiful thing to see. I was so worried an owl or some other critter might get him if they left him overnight again.
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Cheetah Cubs...just 5 days old.
http://www.africam.com/wildlife/cheetah_cubs_tail
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Good to hear that the baby is safe with its mom and dad
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I see either momma or daddy with the baby eaglet! :yahoo: I was so upset looking at the baby all alone.
You know, hawks, and I assume eagles too, don't let their kids stay in the basement. For one thing, nests don't have basements.
The very first year the hawks nested near where I work, that year there were only two babies, the older baby flew leaving its sibling behind and alone for a few days and the parents became very scarce, limiting feedings and hanging about in nearby trees keeping a watchful eye. And when the young one would holler for food, the parent would say, get out of the nest and I'll show you how to hunt it yourself!
Then one night it was very windy and the baby left in the nest was able to use the wind to fly up to the roof of the building and used that surface to practice, practice, practice until the sun went down.
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We have some red-tailed hawks around here but they are becoming more scarce because of all the new houses going in behind us, which used to be field. They are so huge and just awesome to watch - except for that one day when one was sitting on my back fence with a half-dead rabbit hanging from its talons.
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Speaking of red-tailed hawks, it's Story Time - a true story, that is.
Mrs. E and I were living in Utah and we were fostering a Congo African grey parrot named Kizzy. The bird did not belong to us; we were merely its caregiver.
On the very day we were to hand her over to her new owner, I was in the process of cleaning 3 bird cages. Our two parrot cages and Kizzy's cage were in the kitchen. I disassembled the cages one and a time and took the parts through the sliding screen door to the patio where I washed 'em down.
I had to be careful, because Kizzy was out of her cage - in fact, sitting on top looking at all the festivities, located about 8 feet from the screen door.
In the process of taking another part outside, I stumbled on something and fell. I took out the screen door during my fall, and at the bottom of the patio steps I looked up and saw Kizzy flying away.
"Oh shit," ain't the word - trust me.
I did everything imaginable - followed her perceived flight path to an adjoining neighborhood and began looking; posted signs; knocked on doors. No luck. Defeated, I returned home. Mrs. E got home from work and asked if I'd taken a sign over to a local pet store - no, I had not. She did so and returned home.
The next morning, a Sunday, we got a phone call. Somebody had seen the sign in the pet store and opined that Kizzy was up in a tree outside their apartment. We went zipping over there (about 300 feet from our house, as it turned out), and sure enough, there's Kizzy way up in some kind of evergreen.
Now I'm the resident bird guy. I seem to be able to relate to them better than Mrs E, and it was this way with Kizzy also. I called out to her and tried a few tricks, none of which worked -- especially the real dumbass stunt I tried, which was to spray her down with water so she'd be too soaked to fly (I actually read that somewhere).
That spooked her and she took off flying. Damn. Up and up -- until we saw a raptor, later identified as a red-tailed hawk, that had seen her and was targeting her.
A parrot is no match for a predator like a hawk. Yet she managed to evade him and eventually came back down to our area, still up in that same tree. Kizzy loved peanuts, so Mrs E went home to get a handful of peanuts in their shells. I showed them to her and that's what it took to get her down.
She flew down to me, whereupon I gave her a peanut, covered her up in my arms, and we went right home where she could eat and drink without being the target of a semi-determined red-tailed hawk.
Dodged a bullet on that one.
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Great story about Kizzy. That would have freaked me out. With cats, they stay on the ground; birds not so much.