March 23, 2013 - Early Afternoon

Posted by hall48 on Mar 23, 2013; 11:06pm
URL: http://bald-eagles-of-broward-county-florida.17.s1.nabble.com/March-23-2013-Early-Afternoon-tp7572981.html

I stopped by the nest site at about 2:00 PM today and one adult was perched directly above the nest and the eaglet was standing in the nest, scratching itself and doing some wing flapping without really raising itself up off the nest.




The eaglet was active and moving about the nest from side to side with the parent constantly watching it.
Both the adult and the eaglet sounded just before the other adult landed on the nest.


The second parent landed on the West side of the nest and was greeted by the eaglet. It then proceeded to feed the eaglet for some time from food, looking like fish, that was already in the nest.






When there was no food being offered for a short period of time the eaglet let the parent know it wanted more by chomping on its beak.


Eventually the second eagle that was above the nest flew off to the South East.
I watched the adult feed the eaglet off and on for a little over a half hour and both were still on the nest when I left around 2:45 PM.

David Hall