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Updated: Mar 17, 2010 11:05am PST

Eagles Winter 2010 : Bald Eagles in Southwest Florida. These photos were taken over about a month in three locations: Sanibel Florida, Fort Myers, FL and Laurel Florida.

Eagles Winter 2010

PeterSidell

Bald Eagles in Southwest Florida. These photos were taken over about a ...

Updated: Mar 17, 2010 10:04am PST

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silvercreekphotography

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Ethan-Winning

Updated: Mar 17, 2010 8:56am PST

Passerines IV : Avian fauna from Pennsylvania.

Passerines IV

Kevin Hall

Avian fauna from Pennsylvania.

Updated: Mar 17, 2010 7:51am PST

Most recent birds : Last update 17 Mar 2010. Shooting at the Pond and in the Valley.

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TAJA

Last update 17 Mar 2010. Shooting at the Pond and in the Valley.

Updated: Mar 16, 2010 11:49pm PST

Wildlife : Our fine feathered and furry friends.

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Conrad

Our fine feathered and furry friends.

Updated: Mar 16, 2010 11:22pm PST

Baytown Eagles - StrangeBehavior_O31510 : http://aubreyc.smugmug.com/Baytown-Bald-Eagles I labeled this gallery with a sub-heading of Strange Behavior. It was a couple of days since 'Springing Ahead' and given the fact that the Eagles do not wear Timex's, the time change shouldn't have altered their behavior. I have been to the site many times since my first visit on January 25th and this was different. I arrived a little before 2 PM. The Female - I call her so because she is clearly the larger of the two and it was the smaller of the two that took the normal male position during mating - was on the nest. She was spending a good portion of the time with her head above the rim and looking in all directions. I assumed that the male was off fishing. After about an hour, the male came up from a perch somewhere to the right of the nest, made a quick circle of the area and headed off in an easterly direction. After considerable amount of time after the male left, around 4:20 PM, the female began a prolonged series of strange behaviors. The behaviors were series of not the usual stretches from time to time but serious wing flaps followed by or accomanied by screeching that went on for an hour or more. She would settle down for a moment and then they would begin again. At times the wing flapping was so vigorous she would lift from the nest, but would settle back down. I just couldn't believe she would abandon the nest with chicks hatched. Totally unexpectedly the male flew in from the north side of the nest. The wind was coming from the south. She maintained her position in the middle of the nest as he proceeded to rip on the fish he had brought. After some interval she came over to the north side of the nest and tugged at the fish. Then she went to the middle of the nest as if hovering over the chicks and in a postion and with motion that would suggest feeding. Even though the sun was still above the horizon, there were some heavy cloud cover at the horizon, and all at once the bright light was gone. After spending less that 15 minutes in the nest the male suddenly flew from the nest with no carcass has he had done in previous flights from the nest. I was expecting him to swoop down to the floor of the woods and after building speed rise up to the 'Y' shape perch up closer to the road. He didn't come straight up to the perch, but circled in from the north into the wind. Without a prolonged period of preening and stretching, he took off in the low light and instead of flighing over toward the golf course which is normal this time of day he flew south from the perch along the treeline and then gained altitude and flew off to the east again.

Baytown Eagles - StrangeBehavior_O31510

AubreyC

http://aubreyc.smugmug.com/Baytown-Bald-Eagles I labeled this gall ...

Updated: Mar 16, 2010 11:20pm PST

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Eric Weber

Updated: Mar 16, 2010 9:22pm PST

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stuart dahne

Updated: Mar 16, 2010 8:46pm PST

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