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[STLbf]

Goose in the creek, cattle herd now includes newborn calves, no eagles in view yet today.

[LisaG1967]

Goose in the creek, cattle herd now includes newborn calves, no eagles in view yet today.

STL, beautiful pic from dawn!

[STLbf]

Everything is more beautiful in the Spring!

Cattle with more calves are out most of this morning, see on the rewind.
MrN brought a large fish, white sucker maybe, and quickly ate the whole thing.  Feaked his beak on the Ladder Branch, then flew away.
No views of DNF so far today.

[STLbf]

Cam ops found little birds doing their thing!  Male grackles calling and displaying. Robin perching near the nest, and starlings gathering materials for their nests from the eagle-store.

[STLbf]

DNF discovered a really large fish in her Easter Basket (creek) early this morning. Rewind to watch her lug it up the bank.  MrN landed nearby to watch, then flew to the Brush Pile Tree.  After eating for a while, she turned the fish over to MrN and flew away (to look for Easter grasses to add to the nest perhaps; haven't seen her since).

[STLbf]

MrN flew to DN12's Tree after his Easter breakfish, perched and feaked his beak, then flew to the Scary Tree. 
After that, he flew to the nest area and perched in the Left Side Perch with a grackle at the Babysitting Branch.
Great closeups of MrN preening, and perching, and looking very handsome.

Thanks to the Cam Ops for an Easter morning tour of the creek trees, and the great views of the branches around the nest.  You are the best, and you work on holidays!   

[Ginger52]

Mr. North spent a lot of time fishing early this morning and DNF spent a lot of time watching him fish.  He caught a fish around 7:02 a.m. and began eating.  Pretty soon DNF dove down from the top of the Scary Tree.  Mr. N flew off when she arrived and gave chase.  You could hear both vocalizing loudly but cam op couldn't find them.  I think they were in the area over to the right of the nest.  DNF then flew to the nest and Mr. N, deciding that giving up his fish was the better part of valor, folllowed.

DNF arrives and Mr. N takes evasive maneuver


Mr. N flies off


The chase -- Mr. N with fish and DNF circled.


DNF flying to the nest




DNF at the nest


Mr. N arrives with the fish

[LisaG1967]

Great pics, Ginger!

STL - Thanks for all your great pics, too!

[Ginger52]

Thanks, Lisa.

[STLbf]

Before dawn the Norths perched in the Brush Pile Tree, then DNF moved to the Brush Pile and MrN caught a fish and ate part of it on the pasture side of the creek bank.  DNF flew to the nest and MrN came right after with the fish for her. She ate it all, then both flew away to the creek area. 

Another beautiful sunrise, today pastel colors.

Cattle herd is grazing. More calves every day.  In a normal egg season, this would be cowghetti time for feeding little eaglets.  Still wondering if DNF might lay a second clutch.  In 2018, MrsNorth (different female, same male) had a second clutch with the first egg on April 12. See Nest Records for details.

[Ginger52]

Nice pics from today, STL.  Mr. North and DNF roosted on the Scary Tree last night.  Mr. North did make a very brief nest visit before dawn and then flew off to BPT while DNF stayed put on the Scary Tree.  After awhile Mr. flew down to the stream (and was hidden by the bank) and DNF flew over to BPT and then down to the Brush Pile where she was perched when Mr. N. appeared with his fish.

Here are a couple of pics from today:

I think this is a Hairy Woodpecker.  (at about 6:18 a.m.)


I liked this pic of the shadow the nest makes.  (at about 2:44 p.m.)

[STLbf]

Ginger, I think you are correct about the hairy woodpecker. This one would be a female because no visible red head feathers.  Also larger than the downy woodpecker, which seems to be less frequent in the North's valley.  I love the nest shadow, too!  Makes it more evident how high up the nest really is located.

The Norths visited their nest just before sunrise this morning. Nothing brought new.

About 10:00 the cam ops found a coyote resting in the area on the far side of the creek.  Two views, because the lighting makes it difficult to find the coyote in the brush. Just after my second pic, the coyote got up and walked away to the left, and cam ops followed.  Geese on the near side of the creek were on high alert about the same time.

[STLbf]

Saturday morning mating for the Norths!  About 6:00, on the lower Love Branch. Then a short time together on the nest just picking around.

After another glorious sunrise, grackles up close at the nest.  Could a pair be building a nest under the right side of the eagle nest?  Lots of closeups from the cam ops.

[Ginger52]

Thanks for the pics yesterday, STL.

Later in the day (close to 6 p.m.) Mr. N. brought in a stiff wad of grass/hay and ripped it up.  He had to put some energy into it.


DNF flew in to take a look at the wad.


Both roosted last night on the Love Tree.  They went fishing early and it was DNF making the catch of the day at ~ 6:13.  DNF ate for awhile and then Mr. N. joined her -- I guess the fish was big enough for two!  When finished they perched for awhile in a couple of different locations and then flew off to carry on with their day.

Mr. N. fishing


DNF with her catch.


Mr. N. joins DNF -- "Can I have some fish?"


DNF moved behind a privacy screen with her portion.


Both were perched on BPT.  Mr. N. flew off and photobombed DNF (the yellow is his beak).

[MNLindaBird]

Beautiful photos and great reports of activities Ginger and STLbf.  Despite having no eaglets to date, it is so wonderful that, on behalf and in memory of Bremmer and TXNinja, DNF and Mr. North still have an interested following of fans who are delighted that our cam ops and photographers enjoy hanging out at at this beautiful location and that our special pair will continue making appearances before eventually heading out on their seasonal fly-about.  Unless DNF and Mr.N  decide to occupy the nest, I think that the starling has found a pretty nifty potential space in which to enjoy a creatively designed airy shelter with views and a sturdy, secure and comfy-looking nesting "room" (possible candidate for Featured Design in "Nests and Beyond" magazine for birds?).  Will be interesting to see if a starling family is produced.  Thanks to all who are contributing to this thread   Happy Sunday to all the Northies...