Re: JAN 17: Female still sitting deep on nest

Posted by NewMexiKen on
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This is a crop from the photo upon which I based my opinion that it was the female incubating on the nest just after the storm on Sunday, January 17. I never obtained a photo of the eagle's head. Without seeing them together or at least seeing them roosting out in the open it is very hard to tell them apart by plumage. Last I got a good photo of Jewel she had a pure white upper tail and only two narrow longitudinal streaks on the underside of the tail feathers (probably two individual feather shafts). She also showed dark streaks on her upper and lower tail coverts. Her head was entirely white. My photo from January 17 led me to conclude it was the female based upon this crop of the upper tail coverts. I may be wrong. Do we have any clear photographic evidence that Jewel was seen after JAN 16th?: