Thanks to our friend Barbara Holder of LaGrange, I've become an eagle addict, watching in fascination a pair of nesting bald eagles in Minnesota, via a live solar-powered camera trained on their nest. On March 9, the first egg was laid, and a second followed soon after.
It's become a habit to check on them a couple of times a day, although usually all you see is Mom or Dad taking turns sitting on the nest, hunkered down in the cold, sometimes covered in snow. Dad likes sitting in the warm spot, and occasionally resorts to bribery to entice Mom to get up: he brings her a fish to eat, or a duck. Dad also has an Obsessive Stick Disorder, and is constantly bringing in sticks and twigs to fortify the nest, and spends all day fiddling with them until they fit just so.
Late yesterday, about 7:30, I tuned in just in time to see Mom ease off the eggs, to reveal a tiny naked eaglet, struggling to free itself from the broken shell, and the whole time, Ray Charles singing "What a Wonderful World" played in my head.
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| The first eaglet emerging from its shell |
Jimmy was late getting his supper last night, but that's okay.
To watch this little miracle, go to this link:
http://youtu.be/9wD_gfSyfpI
Eaglet's first feeding this morning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT0G0Fariuo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia2lhE_LqW0
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