Fort St. Vrain Eagles ~ And Then There Were Three! 🐣🐣🐣 Welcome To The World FSV54! ♥ 4.6.25 скачать в хорошем качестве

Fort St. Vrain Eagles ~ And Then There Were Three! 🐣🐣🐣 Welcome To The World FSV54! ♥ 4.6.25

Egg #3 really worked hard and fast at hatching this morning! Every time a parent got up, we could see more progress being made. FSV52 & 53 are already bonking one another and are quite active. In fact, FSV52 will peck at the new hatchling while it was still trying to break free of its shell! Timestamp 07:25. It is a good thing that food is plentiful at this nest to keep the chicks full so their bonking will be less. Bonking or pecking is common and is seen all almost all bald eagle nests when the eaglets are trying to determine the hierarchy and pecking order on the nest. The oldest will be the most dominant and will tend to eat first - we have two eaglets that hatched the same day so are equally matched (52 & 53). FSV54 will be wobbly and weak after just hatching but will be stronger by tomorrow. Welcome to the world FSV54! 🐣 It is day 33 for the fourth egg, so we are looking to see a pip hopefully on Tuesday 4/8 on day 35. Thank you for watching! From Raptor Resource Project: "Welcome to the world, FSV52, 53 & 54! Fifty-four 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 Courtesy of Raptor Resource Project & Xcel Energy Watch the livestream Cam 1 here:    • Fort St. Vrain Eagles, Top Camera View   And side view cam:    • Fort St. Vrain Eagles, Side Camera View   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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!