Fort St Vrain Eagles ~ Ma & Pa Feed ALL FOUR Eaglets Breakfast! FSV55 Gets Its First Bites 🐥 4.11.25 скачать в хорошем качестве

Fort St Vrain Eagles ~ Ma & Pa Feed ALL FOUR Eaglets Breakfast! FSV55 Gets Its First Bites 🐥 4.11.25

Ma wakes up and begins to feed her eaglets the first meal of the day! The older eaglets ate at this feeding - 55 got offered a bite way too big - may have gotten a few nibbles. Then Ma left and Pa came to the nest to brood and begin the 2nd feeding of the day. All eaglets were fed and 55 got several bites (see highlight timestamps below) Ma returns and begins another feeding and 55 got bites as 52 was in a food comas Great job Ma & Pa and this is no easy task!! Thank you for watching! ♥ There is about a 6.5 day difference from 52 to 55 hatches. And just over a 4 day difference between 54 & 55. That speaks volumes about intermittent or delayed incubation since there was a 10 day difference from the time egg 1 was laid to egg 4. TIMESTAMPS: Opening 00:00 Ma begins first feeding 08:16 FSV55 gets offered a bite too big 09:05 Pa returns to brood and start 2nd feeding 12:22 Pa offers bites to 55 13"56 More bites to 55 15:30 More bites to 55 18:34 Pa offers huge bite to 55 - too big 20:38 Ma is back for another feeding 22:47 55 gets several bites! From Raptor Resource Project (updated to include FSV55 hatch): "Welcome to the world, FSV52, 53, 54 & 55! Fifty-five eaglets: what a milestone! Ma FSV laid four eggs this year: a real surprise to us, since she most likely began nesting here in 2007 and has been a three-egg layer for years. She is a 2002 hatch from a nest roughly 45 miles east of FSV, while Pa was captured and banded as an adult by a wildlife biologist working with the Denver International Airport. The Decorah Eagle nest became more famous, but Xcel Energy's Fort St. Vrain nest was our first. Bob Anderson and Rob MacIntyre put a webcam up in 2003, back when uploading a picture every two minutes was a big deal! Life can be hard on the Front Range, but we love this nest." Thank you for watching! Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk Eggs Laid & Hatch Times: Egg1 laid 2/22/25 @ 21:05 Egg2 laid 2/25/25 @ 22:37; Egg3 laid 2/28/25 @ 20:17; Egg4 laid 3/4/25 @ 18:32. Egg 1 & 2 hatch 4/4/25 Egg 3 hatches 4/6/25 Egg 4 hatches 4/10/25 Courtesy of Raptor Resource Project & Xcel Energy Watch the livestream Cam 1 here:    • Xcel Energy Fort St. Vrain Eagles (to...   And side view cam:    • Xcel Energy Fort St. Vrain Eagles (si...   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ma FSV is a 2002 hatch from a nest roughly 45 miles east of FSV making her 23 years old! Pa FSV was captured and banded as an adult by a wildlife biologist working with the Denver International Airport - his age is unknown. What does the Fort St. Vrain bald eagle site look like? The eagles' nest (FSV-N0) is 9 x 8 feet wide, eight feet high, and 57 feet off the ground. It has a perimeter of about 26 feet, a total area of about 56 feet, and probably weighs between 2200 and 2700 pounds! The nest is located in a cottonwood on the banks of the St. Vrain River near Platteville, CO, on property owned by Xcel Energy. We’re not sure how old it is, but Bob Anderson and Rob MacIntyre put the first cam system up in 2003, when the nest was already well established. FSV-N0 is built primarily of cottonwood branches (the dominant tree in many river systems out west) and lined with prairie grass. After the primary limb supporting the nest fell in August of 2020, RRP Director John Howe worked with Xcel Energy to put up a new bionic limb and restore the nest. The eagles gave it their seal of approval just a few days later!