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#EggWatch

Egg Watch has flipped to baby bird watch! Sometime between last night and this morning, these babies were born! Can definitely see two of them, there was a third egg so later today I’ll do more creeping to see if the third made it.
#EggWatch #birds #BabyBirds

Photo of half a light blue robin’s egg with a baby bird half out of it. Another baby robin has its mouth open upwards begging for food. The babies are currently ugly, featherless and pink and grey.

Photo showing half a robin’s egg and two babies lying in a nest. The photo is shot from between slats in the deck above the nest.

#EggWatch is up to three eggs! Couldn’t get a good photo today because my phone wanted to focus on the water on the deck planks instead of the nest.

Blurry photo looking through the slats of a deck. Vaguely three robins blue eggs can be seen in a nest.

I was beginning to think my favorite part of spring would never come! The robins decided to move to the middle deck posts, but they’ve built up and the first egg appeared today. Blessed Beltane!
#beltane #robins #EggWatch #SignsOfSpring

Photo looking down through the slats of a wooden deck at a birds nest. Nestled in the center is one single blue egg.

@peterhoneyman #eggwatch

We really pushed it late this season, but we are again on #EggWatch. It might be this evening, but she is still more active than a beached whale so probably tomorrow dusk.

Which begs the question, at what market price point do we turn to eating the parrot's eggs instead of chicken eggs? 🧐🤔🤨

Close up of an incredibly dusty, very broody blue-winged macaw.

A breezy day at noon on #eagle watch, the first day a "pip" (or the initial opening in an egg) is possible. No progress so far.

A prettier, warm day for the male, as he does what the non-profit calls "Daddy duty" and sits the nest for some amount of time. Generally the female takes the bulk of the day, but he seems very motivated to to his part. This is what the gifts of the sticks are intended to show, I'm told.

#BaldEagle #EggWatch #3Eggs

Shadow, the male, is currently on the nest, situated at the 9:00 position, but with his head over his shoulder looking toward 3:00. It's like those heads are on swivels.

The camera is tipped downward to the nest (doubtless to make zooming in on the eggs each time they're visible easier to see) so only a little of the blue lake is visible behind the nest. The pine trees on the near bank look very green, so it's a colorful backdrop, even with the entire foreground made up of dead fir tree branches.

Shadow's bright orange beak is another colorful spot in the photo. I wonder what he's looking at? He was not agitated, or vocalizing, so it couldn't have been a threat.

A look-back in #eagle time to Friday morning, when apparently some other large predator must have been in the area. The male was on the nest, and Jackie returned.

They both got very agitated, and Jackie flew off to chase away whoever was near (probably a raven.) They then changed places.

#FOBBV:
https://www.friendsofbigbearvalley.org/

Webcam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE

#BaldEagle #EggWatch