Saturday, February 25th 8:30 AM feeding

[NewMexiKen]

We arrived at the eagle nest a little before 8:30 AM. Temperature in the high 70s (F) and it was overcast and foggy, providing poor conditions for photography. There was one adult on the nest, feeding the eaglet. I was not sure of the sex. After about 5 minutes the adult then flew off to roost in the melaleucas. The eaglet settled down mostly out of sight.











The sky brightened up a bit just before we left.

[hall48]

Nice Picture Ken, especially considering the conditions this morning. I really liked the photo of the adult feeding the chick and the adult perched on the Maleluca! Good stuff.

I stopped by the nest around 2:00 PM today and stayed for about 40 minutes. Neither adult was anywhere I could see around the nest, but the eaglet was fairly active. It moved around the nest and even did a bunch of wing flapping. The wind was up so getting a clear shot was a matter of timing the sway of the branches and hoping for some luck.

Here are a few of the shots I did get.


Eaglet flapping its's wings. You can see it is starting to get some feathers started.


More flapping of the wings. This went on for a couple of minutes.


Is anybody out there with food?

David Hall
Change in position, more flapping.


Settling down.

[NewMexiKen]

Beautifully documented, David! Thanks for the update and the great photos.