Now live streaming!!! Both eagles and now TWO hatchlings!

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http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles

NOW!!!

OMG!!! I'm LOVING THIS!!!!

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1. One of them just settled in, gently, over the remaining (what looks like) two eggs

and the two little hatchlings. I saw the new one move a little before Mom (or was it Dad?) nestled in on top of them.

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2. Now the other one just took off.

WOW!!!!!!

[malaise]

3. It's fabulous

Hubby can't stop watching :D

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6. I'm just blown away by this!

What really excited me was when either Mom or Dad was stepping around the rim of the nest and you could see one little gray hatchling moving around and raising its head, but the other one was just a little gray unmoving lump - but then one of the parents nudged it a little, I think with a scrap of food, and it started moving around and it looked up. FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is REALLY THRILLING!!!!

I can't stop watching either. Even when I do, I go back. I'm keeping the tab open there.

[eleny]

4. Some screen captures from a few minutes ago...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=800911&mesg_id=803439

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7. Thanks - these are GREAT!!!

Isn't this just the coolest thing?

[tabatha]

5. Thanks!

That picture is of high quality!

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8. Doesn't it just blow your mind when all of a sudden it moves?

The eagle sitting in the nest will be very still for awhile, and then all of a sudden it'll move or it'll look around - hell, even if it just blinks - I Am ENTHRALLED!!!!

[eleny]

10. .

:yourock:

[malaise]

13. Actually

You both rock!!! :D

[eleny]

16. And malaise makes three!

You're so

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20. Couldn't agree more!

Happy Eagle Day! EVERY day should be Eagle Day!

[malaise]

25. Happy Eagle Day

:D

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27. I just saw - evidently - Mom come back to the nest. Dad got up and made room,

Mom settled in. The stray chick was corralled a little bit (although last I saw, it was back out looking around a little. At one point, Dad had sat down and the chick was under his tail. Then Dad took off and Mom settled in. She's turned a little - now she's facing where the stray chick is, and she's working the nest a little - maybe to make a better spot for the chick?

AMAZING!

[Tikki]

9. This is amazing to be able to share with my grandson...

We are both captivated by this....

Tikki

[Thunderstruck]

12. Yea, it's been on one of my monitors since someone first posted the link a couple days ago.

And you are so right, it is very captivating.

[malaise]

31. That's wonderful

:hi:

[Curmudgeoness]

11. I must have some ADD happening, because I just can't stare at this.

I am, however, excited to watch the collage link that they provided. Very cool.

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14. Yeah I know how that is, because while I'm online I'm also checking AOL radio

in the New Alternative First channel. Every so often my son's band, ACIDIC, is on there with "The Big Bang," and I have to vote it up.

http://player.radio.com/player/AOLPlayer.php (shameless plug)!

So I'm switching back and forth.

Multitasking I guess. But I love watching the eagles!!! I'm checking back on them multiple times a day.

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23. Aha! Got it! "Big Bang" just played!

:party:

What a nice day!

[eleny]

18. They have some videos of special moments

I almost had sympathy pains when she was laying that first egg.

Well, not really. But she was pretty darned intense.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. Thank you! Who would have thought 10 years ago that we could be spectators of this glorious

stream? The resolution is blowing me away!!!

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19. Go check now! They were doing close ups of the Mom (or Dad) - whichever is in the nest now.

AMAZING. Watching the feathers fluff in the breeze. AMAZING! And that beak!

LOVE IT!!!!!!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

22. Just breathtaking! I'm fortunate to live in an area with nesting areas nearby and although

never saw them nest, have seen the eagles soar. :)

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24. Just sitting now. And whatever was left of the dead rabbit appears to have been consumed.

This is Just Wonderful!!!

I'm LOVING it!

Fun, also, watching it with some of my fellow DUers!

:toast:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

26. Is the little one ok? Parent went to feed it and it didn't seem to have the strength to keep its

head up???

[Curmudgeoness]

17. Watching that first 24 hours collage, it occurs to me how much work

it is for that little guy/gal just to break out of that egg. You just think of it as they "hatch", but that took a tremendous amount of energy to get there. Kudos to that little bugger.

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21. No kidding!

They have to start picking at it and chipping it away. I guess they're not claustrophobic - I would hope not!

[Curmudgeoness]

28. Why is that one baby on the outside of the nest?

I can't watch! This is too scary. And I already have figured that they will not be raising all 3 if they hatch. I can't stand it.

[Lisa0825]

29. I just logged into chat and it was blank.... after a while finally this message:

4:31 nwsonshine: Chatters, thank you for your patience. We are hoping to resume chat soon. We are giving everyone some time to take a few deep breaths. It is amazing to have observed the rescue Mom just made
4:31 nwsonshine: to recover her lost chick

:wow:

[Curmudgeoness]

30. I wonder if they were afraid to say anything either. I was. nt

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38. Well, it was evidently successful - I saw two feeding chicks in the nest, with one egg.

[Lisa0825]

40. Here's the incident on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peHesQ-gH9A

[in_cog_ni_to]

32. Mommy's back! Probably for the night.

:)

[Lucinda]

33. They are being fed now :)

ty for the link

[tabatha]

34. Btw, there are some other Bald Eagle cams here

but nowhere near the quality of the one you're watching.

http://www.iws.org/bald_eagles/twoharborscam.html

http://www.justin.tv/iwsciber2?utm_campaign=live_embed_click&utm_source=www.iws.org#/w/1026607808/45

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35. That's okay! The more the merrier - hopefully to increase the appreciation of these

marvelous creatures.

To know them is to love and respect them.

[tabatha]

36. Exactly.

People defend what they love.

[3waygeek]

37. Here's another one from Iowa...

at the Alcoa plant in Bettendorf. The plant is right on the Mississippi, so the eagles won't lack for food. I grew up less than a mile from the Alcoa plant; I can't recall seeing too many eagles when I was growing up in the 70s, so it's good to see they've made a comeback.

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39. Now from what I can tell, both parents have come and one is now gone off again,

and there's tons of food there. I see a fresh kill of a fairly large black bird, a fish, and probably the lower half of the rabbit. For a moment I first feared that the dead bird was the other eagle, until the camera widened out and I saw the other eagle on the nest, very much alive.

This is mind-blowing!!!!