A wonderful video from EagleCam shows the newly-hatched bald eagle chick getting its first meal.
No regurgitated pap for these tough birds: it’s straight sashimi.
Eaglet gets its first meal
March 15, 2011 • 9:20 am
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Awwwww…..
Mama’s beak is almost as big as baby, and yet she so delicately hands off baby-sized portions to the chick.
And “bobblehead” is certainly the perfect description!
One concern, though…I only see the one chick. What happened to the other two eggs? Ore they just out of view?
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I totally saw it getting fed yesterday. It was such perfect timing…I got there to see The Eagle sitting for a minute or two, then to see her stand up and reveal Fuzzy, then eat some of the fish lying at the edge of the nest, then start feeding Fuzzy, then go on feeding Fuzzy, then sit down again and do the Ray Charles thing. I totally saw it! I yelled an alert here at the time, but I don’t suppose anyone saw it.
I was lucky to catch it too.
Only had time to Tweet it!
TWO bobbleheads right now, the second apparently hatched this morning. Screen capture at http://wading-in.net/Add/2bobbleheads.jpg
Great capture. Better than what’s up at the website ATM.
I read that title as
“Eaglet gets its first email”
Ain’t technology wonderful
Apparently, there’s a second bobblehead now!
Open wide!
Amazing how delicate she can be with that beak.
Isn’t it great? That giant rigid instrument, offering a tiny scrap of fish as if with a pair of tweezers.
Dang, those hummingbird babies are developing rapidly!!!
Is it just me, or is the older chick attacking the second chick, preventing it from getting food?
I have watched a couple of feeding sessions which this appears to be the case.
I know that life is harsh, and that probably only one or two chicks would make it, but I didn’t think they attacked each other to improve their chances?
Not to worry; I found this posted by an Eaglecam moderator this morning:
Also, these eagles have produced three eggs every year for a few year, and brought all three chicks to fledging. This is unusual, but the pair are good parents.
Thanks for the history Jerry, good to know its just oldfashioned sibling squabbling!
I also have to do the multiple refreshes too occasionally, so glad its not just my connection, or something about me being in the UK.