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early May

 

 

 

mid March

The pair failed in their attempts to build a nest, and ended up laying two eggs on the ground; by the time this nest was discovered by Bev and Ralph from O.W.L., one egg had broken. The second was removed for incubation, but candling showed that while it had been fertile, the embryo had died.

early April

 

A large part of the nest gave way before the start of the nesting season. The pair made some efforts at rebuilting, and some efforts at starting a new nest, but didn't make progress with either and didn't nest.

last half of Feb

"Phoenix"

Mar 20-28

Mar 20
7:54 pm

Mar 24
seen
6:52 am
possibly laid
~3:00 am

Apr 29
5:53 am
( 36 days - #2)

died
July 14
7:19 pm
(76 days)

cause of death was Acute Aspergillosis, which is a respiratory infection caused by Aspergillus fungi

Link to Hornby Eagles "Our Nature Zone" forum
What Happened to Phoenix

"Tenas Chakchak"

Mar 10

Mar 10

~Mar 13?

~May 16?
reported
Mar 21

one egg lost as of Apr 4

Apr 18
7:11 am
(39 days)

Apr 18
7:56 pm
(~36 days)
seen dead
Apr 23
(4.5 days)

July 16
5:53 am
(89 days)
back by
10:38 am

August 6
10:37 am
(21 days after fledging)

"Solo"

Mar 1-22

Mar 4
6:35 pm

Mar 7
7:56 pm

one egg stolen by raven
Apr 5

Apr 11
6:20 am
(38 days
if first egg,
35 days if second

June 30
before 8:00 pm
(80 days)

returned
to nest
July 1
12:59 pm

seen July 20
6:58 am
(cam had major issues)

heard July 21
6:41 am
(from a distance)
(21 days after fledging)

adults K93(M) & A37(F)

banded June 28
K98 (M)

no history

seen
Mar 29

second egg?

May 3
afternoon
(35 days)

July 15
(73 days)

died
July 17

cause of death was likely dehydration; weather was very hot, and he'd been fed a lot of squirrel, which has less water than the usual fish

adults K65(M) & K56(F)

banded May 29
K95(F)

Feb 19 - Mar 3

on or before
Feb 19

on or before
Feb 22

one egg lost as of Mar 15

seen
Mar 30
morning
(36 days)

≤ July 6
(98 days /
14 weeks)

adults K80(M) and K47(F)

banded May 28
K09 (F)
K96 (M)

Feb 20 - Mar 10

Feb 20

~Feb 23

Mar 29
(37 days)

Apr 2
(~38 days)

≤ July 5
(98 days)

≤ July 5
(94 days)

both died
≤ July 7

both found dead under some bushes on July 7 (~14 weeks old, presumably recently fledged)

adults K25(M) & K34(F)

banded May 21
K05(F)

Feb 17 - Mar 5

~Feb 17

on or before
Feb 20

one egg lost as of Mar 15

seen
Mar 26
morning
(37 days)

≤ June 18
(84 days)

adults K33(M) & K17(F)

Feb 19 - Feb 25

on or before
Feb 19

~Feb 22

nest failed

 

 

adults K81(M) and K82(F)

banded May 23
K04 "Avalon" (F)
K06 "Gabriel" (M)

Feb 17 - Mar 2

Feb 17
6:46 pm

Feb 21
7:00 pm

Mar 27
8:16 am
(38 days)

Mar 28
7:43 pm
(35 days)

June 23
morning
(88 days)

June 23
2:10 pm
(87 days)

 

adults K01(M) & Wray (F)

banded June 10
K08 "Dakota" (M)
K07 "Aquila" (M)

Feb 20 - Mar 14

seen
Mar 8
5:51 am

seen
Mar 12
7:42 am
(cam down)

Apr 14
1:17 pm
(37 days)

Apr 16
7:27 am
(35 days)

≤ July 10
(87 days)

July 11
(86 days)

July 17 - K08's transmitter was sending a mortality signal from the mainland; he might have made it ashore and lost the transmitter, or it may be malfunction, or he may have washed up on a beach

Aug 8 - K07 drowned while trying to fly to the mainland; found by a boater

California
Santa Cruz Island
Baby's Harbor
(aka North Shore or Cueva Valdez pair)

no cam

adults A00(M) & A16(F)

this is their first chick

banded June 16
A72(M)

reported nesting in Apr 11 update

1 egg seen
Apr 20 update

Apr 23

≤ July 9
(~77 days)

adults K11(M) & A17(F)

before Mar 3

two eggs,
first on or before Apr 5

failed, only shards in nest on Apr 28

adults K10(M) & K26(F)

banded May 27
A69 "Malik" (M)
A68 "Braveheart" (M)

Feb 24 - Mar 8

Feb 25
5:36 pm

Feb 28
5:52 pm

seen
Apr 3
7:34 am
(37 days)

Apr 5
11:19 am
(36 days)

June 22
5:46 pm
(80 days)
return
June 23
11:16 am

June 28
10:05 am
(84 days)
return
37 min

adults A28(M) & A27(F)

banded June 15-16
A71(M)

early March

Mar 11

~Mar 14?

one did not hatch

~ Apr 20
reported
Apr 22

≤July 1
(~72 days??)

newly discovered nest
adults K36(M) & A43(F)

*the April 13 hatch is the first known eagle chick to hatch on Santa Rosa in 60 years.

A70 (F)
banded June 6

?

appear to be incubating per Apr 10 update

Apr 13*

≤ July 11
(89 days)
(may have fledged much earlier - no GPS 6/25-7/11)

adults A08(M) & A22(F)

nest found May 11 and chick appeared older than Pelican Harbor pair, so I arbitrarily picked April 1 as a possible hatch date

A67(M)
banded May 17

early March

nest not found until May 11

~Apr 1

~June 15
(~11 weeks)

adults Patriot (M) & Liberty (F)

"Peace"
"Shasta"
"Justice"

Feb 6 - Feb 15

Feb 15
4:15 pm

Feb 18
4:32 pm

Feb 21
6:45 pm

Mar 25
7:22 pm
(38 days)

Mar 26
6:05 pm
(36 days)

Mar 29
8:55 am
(36 days)

June 11
(78 days)

June 18
(84 days)

~June 21
(84 days)

2 on cam July 7, 1 July 8

all three were in the area July 9,
one was seen July 14

(camera turned off mid-July)

Colorado
Fort St. Vrain

Link

 

Feb 14 - Mar 6

Feb 14
~6 pm

Feb 17
~6 pm

Mar 25
~9:38 am
(39 days)

seen
Mar 26
7:50 am
(37 days)

both by
June 11
(77-78 days)
(likely sooner)

cam off July 15

both seen that day

Feb 25 - Mar 2

Feb 25
7:26 pm

Feb 28
11:13 pm

Mar 5
6:50 pm

Apr 3
7:33 pm
(37 days)

Apr 5
4:11 pm
(36 days)

Apr 10
8:34 am
(36 days)

~June 23
79 days - #2

≤June 26
77 days - #3

maybe
≤June 28

cam off July 7

all three seen that day

Mar 5 - 8

did not nest

Mar 8 - Mar 31

Mar 8
4:06 pm

seen
Mar 12
6:02 am
(probably
Mar 11
6:07 pm)

Apr 15
5:53 am
(38 days)

Apr 16
3:36 pm
(36 days)

June 30
6:36 am
(75 days)

June 30
6:36 am
(76 days)

returned
to nest
morning of
July 1

cam stopped working July 18
(had been quite haphazard for a while)

both seen July 17

named April 27
Avis (likely F)
Aquila (likely M)

Jan 20 - 30

Jan 20
~ 4:00 pm

Jan 23
3:42 pm

Feb 26
5:28 pm
(37 days)

Feb 28
seen 6:16 am
(36 days)

May 21
(84 days)

May 22
(83 days)

both - June 22

one - June 25

cam had problems shortly thereafter
off-line June 27

no cam - info based on site visits and banding day report

one banded, May 13
6.8 lbs, est 5-6 weeks old
(one dead chick removed)

Feb 28 - Mar 6

incubation observed Mar 20

est hatch
Apr 1 - 8

(feeding obs Apr 20;
2 chicks obs Apr 21)

≤July 11

Mar 16 -Mar 19

Mar 18
~7:45 pm

seen
Mar 22
7:54 am
(didn't hatch)

Apr 25
3:53 pm
(38 days)

July 15
~9:00 am
(81 days)

July 15
~9:00 am
(cam off July 28)

banded ?date?
green band on right (F)
green band on left (F)

late Feb

two eggs
~Feb 20
(before cam)

seen
Mar 27
12:45 pm

seen
Mar 28
8:15 am

June 21
5:25 am
(86 days)

June 20
6:39 am
(84 days)

both return
to nest
June 23

June 30
both in nest in morning
cam down in the afternoon

adults Derek (M) and Savannah (F)
(both non-releasable)

"Noah"

Their nest box is insulated - but it is on the ground, and they got 3-4 inches of snow the night before the second egg hatched.

Moved to hacking tower March 27 (43 days old)

Transmitter attached
April 17 (64 days old)

Jan 5-25

seen
Jan 5

~ Jan 8

~ Jan 11
(only two eggs seen in nest
as of Feb 11)

Feb 12
7:45 am
(38 days)

Feb 13
11:45 am
(36 days)
(apparently died shortly after hatch)

May 7
1:47 pm
(84 days/
12 weeks)

Noah apparently stayed in the area for a few days, then headed north within a week or so. CRC reported May 19 that she was in Virginia, in an area frequented by other eagles (good for learning how to hunt and scavange).

Moved to a new nest for 2010; cam was moved as well

new nest is former hawk nest

it was very windy when the 2-day old chick crawled through a hole at the edge of the nest; it's possible the chick was partially blown to that area as chicks that young rarely move about the nest

older eaglet was beginning to stand upright and likely lost its balance and stepped over the edge while trying to regain it

Feb 1 - Feb 18

~Feb 18

~Feb 21

~Feb 24

3rd egg did not hatch

seen
Mar 28
7:16 am
(~38 days)
died May 3
fell from nest and died

Mar 30
4:42 pm
(~37 days)
Apr 1
fell from nest and died

 

adults Cascade (M) and Lady Odell (F)

there were a series of bad snowstorms during the incubation period; the eagles kept the nestbowl free of snow, but I don't know if they could keep the eggs warm enough or turn them for even heat distribution

Mar 24 - Apr 19

Mar 24
8:10 pm

Mar 27
9:31 pm

did not hatch

adults Justice (M) and Liberty (F)
(both non-releasable)

see Note re eggs below

Apr 1-3

2 eggs
both non-fertile

fostered:

~ Apr 11

~ Apr 11

2 released from tower July 27 - not sure if same two

banded Mar 31
NC - 2.5 lb - 20 days
ND - 2 lb - 18 days
NE - 1.75 lb - 17 days

#3 was too small to band and #2 lost its bands; not sure if they'll have the same numbers in the end

re-banded May 5
NC (M) - 8+ lbs - 55 days
ND (M) - 7.25 lb - 53 days
NE (M) - 7.50 lb - 52 days

NC also fitted for GPS transmitter and named Camellia

Jan 31 - Feb 10

Jan 31
2:14 pm

Feb 3
11:50 am

Feb 6
12:29 pm

Mar 11
1:10 pm
(39 days)

~Mar 13
12:01 am
(37.5 days)

~Mar 14
12:01 am
(35.5 days)

May 27
8:09 pm
(77 days)

May 29
6:52 am
(77 days)

May 31
12:36 pm
(78 days)

June 30
cam down
all 3 eaglets still around

late March

Mar 16
late afternoon

seen
Apr 22
7:22 am
(37 days)

seen
Apr 24
7:45 am
(~36 days)

~July 13
(82 days)

~July 14
(81 days)

Aug 8
both seen - 11 am

adults Liberty (M) and Belle (F)

Major snowstorm
(2-3 ft of snow)
Feb 5-6

Second snowstorm
(another foot of snow)
Feb 9

Jan 31 - Feb 12

Feb 2
10:15 pm

Feb 6
2:12 pm
(first two eggs lost in blizzard)

Feb 9
5:46 pm
(only one egg seen after Feb 23)

Feb 13
2:42 pm

Mar 21
3:48 pm
(36 days)

June 14
7:24 am
(85 days)

returned
to nest
June 16
7:27 pm

July 15
7 am

July 26-27
the eaglet was banded and given wing tags; one of the adults apparently was upset by the either the band or the wing tags and attacked the chick, breaking its leg in the process; the chick was removed for rehab, and a decision was made to not band/tag chicks at this nest in the future

April 9

April 12

second egg
did not hatch

May 24
3:47 pm
(44 days)