Big Bear Eagle cam

[napanutt]

I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure they fed that fucker to the babies.

View attachment 1484415 View attachment 1484416

Hell yea they did. Saw that too.

 

[MissB]

OMG They are sooo cute, I can't even!!!

 

[C-2]

That's what you call tenacity. Excellent

 

[Angler]

Shadow delivered his "super sperm" this year.
Howard Stern

 

[SoCalDave]

Dead calm up there right now...

 

[4Waters]

Dead calm up there right now...

View attachment 1484463

Heard this morning on the weather report that Big Bear is expected to get 18" of snow next week, terrible timing. Hope the little ones make it

 

[HubbaHubbaLife]

Even my 95 yr old mom's VA old folks home broadcast this feed in their lobby.

 

[4Waters]

It's snowing now

 

[old rigger]

It's snowing now

Not stopping him from eating that trout!

 

[Ducksquasher]

I know that they are designed for this but holy crap I worry about the babies getting wet so young with just down feathers at this point. They survive in Alaska in these conditions and this is the time of year that they hatch and not Spring so God's design...hopefully it all works out a d the 3rd egg hatches!

 

[Clank123]

Hopefully number 3 breaks out soon!

 

[River Dirt 2]

 

[4Waters]

View attachment 1484797

Keep them warm mama

 

[HCP3]

Hopefully number 3 breaks out soon! View attachment 1484708

It just did.

 

[stephenkatsea]

Assume if that 3rd egg does hatch, it’s going to have some very tough times ahead.

 

[Brian]

3rd egg just popped a crack in it

 

[Riverfamlee]

Assume if that 3rd egg does hatch, it’s going to have some very tough times ahead.

Yep, was just reading on that. Makes it real tough for mama to keep them all warm and sheltered as they grow. Fingers crossed for all 3!

 

[SoCalDave]

Yep, was just reading on that. Makes it real tough for mama to keep them all warm and sheltered as they grow. Fingers crossed for all 3!

Only the strong survive, gonna be a real struggle for the youngest.

 

[4Waters]

4" overnight

 

[napanutt]

Just saw a beak popping out of the hole in the third egg while mom or dad was feeding the other two.

 

[River Dirt 2]

Morning!

 

[Kbach]

Well they made it through the cold and snow and the third egg hatched! They’ve got they hands full now!

 

[MOUZER]

I'm really worried about the third egg that just hatched during feeding on live feed the other 2 where getting all the food ...

 

[4Waters]

Well they made it through the cold and snow and the third egg hatched! They’ve got they hands full now!

This next week is gonna be a rough one

 

[stephenkatsea]

They seem to give those eagles names. I think they should call the 3rd chick that just hatched, “breakfast, lunch or dinner”. Those 2 older chicks are likely to be brutal on that new one.

 

[4Waters]

All 3 are still doing good

 

[4Waters]

Up to 2' of snow over the next couple of days

 

[4Waters]

 

[mbrown2]

View attachment 1486959

Tough f'n birds!

 

[ChevelleSB406]

Certainly getting a lot of snow up there, but man, that wind is certainly moving the tree around, glad I am not sitting up there.

 

[HubbaHubbaLife]

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[DRYHEAT]

View attachment 1486959

Do you think the Minnesota and North Dakota Eagles are laughing at the California Eagles? It is sunny Southern California after all.

 

[napanutt]

Looks like 3rd chick might not have made it.

 

[Riverfamlee]

Looks like 3rd chick might not have made it.

Another video showed Shadow getting up off the nest (shift change) and accidently caught it with his talons. Chick was stuck for a second. Not sure if that was it or not.

 

[stephenkatsea]

9:54 only 2 eaglets could be seen feeding. They looked OK. At 11:40 when the female attempted to feed them, they didn’t pop up and try to grab the food. Saw the head of only 1 of them raise up. Although, saw movement in both of them. Female stopped trying to feed and settled over top of them.

 

[SoCalDave]

Mother nature it is...only the strongest survive.

 

[4Waters]

Mother nature it is...only the strongest survive.

Sounds like dad did this one

 

[Kbach]

Looks like the third eaglet is dead in the nest. You could see it motionless during their feedings this morning.

 

[FreeBird236]

I have no proof, but because of size and personality, I believe you are watching chicks #2 and #3. Chick one was extremely aggressive and would even bite Jackie, the two left are much less aggressive.

 

[BoatCop]

Watchers are stating that they MAY have seen body of the 3rd chick on the right side of the nest well. I went back in the feed to anywhere they were feeding, and found only two are popping up to eat, over the past day or so.

 

[JM21]

I only saw one at the last feeding

 

[PlumLoco]

I watched a dozen different feedings over the last week and many times it seemed the parent was very deliberately feeding one baby much more than the other(s). Saw it happening before #3 hatched even.
It also really did look like #3 got stepped on and injured by one of the adults.

 

[WYRD]

There are two as of today but one was obviously more aggressive than the other one and like Plum Loco said it looks as if Mama's feeding that one more. Nature's survival of the fittest I suppose.

 

[4Waters]

 

[RichL]

We were kind of wondering about this. Now we know for sure.

 

[BajaT]

Found this to be interesting:​

The first hatchling gets most of the food most of the time​

Field observations of adult bald eagles feeding three 4-week-old eaglets recorded dismal differences in the amount of food each eaglet gets. An adult eagle brought a large fish to the nest and fed the largest eaglet 67% of the fish, while the second eaglet received 18.9 % and the third eaglet 13.7%.

In another nest, with three baby eagles, the differences were even more dramatic. The largest eaglet received 96% of the fish, while the second-largest eaglet received 2.5%, and the third chick only received 1.2% of the fish. In this last nest, the smallest eaglet eventually died from starvation.

 

[FreeBird236]

I don't have a video, but Jackie took it off the food pile yesterday and flew away with it.

 

[4Waters]

I don't have a video, but Jackie took it off the food pile yesterday and flew away with it.

I saw it

 

[FreeBird236]

I saw it

I only heard about it, didn't realize she ate part or maybe all of it.

 

[4Waters]

I only heard about it, didn't realize she ate part or maybe all of it.

Yeah, little hard to watch but nature can be rough