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The dad eagle brings a bunch of fish for Phoenix and he ends up eating a couple of them whole while poor Mom is trying to tear off little bitty bites for him. It’s very cute! You have to watch for a few minutes to see him gobbling the whole fish.</p>
<p>Great dinner scene! Phoenix is such a gawky (but cute) little thing.</p>
<p>That was hilarious -what a little piglet -thanks for posting it</p>
<p>Cute family-- the whole family together again.
A fish is alive.</p>
<p>The other egg seems to be shrinking (not really), as the family adds to the nest and Phoenix gets bigger. I’m betting that it just sits there until fall and some rodent takes care of it , meanwile the family nest just gets bigger and higher.</p>
<p>More food-feeding time of silver fish</p>
<p>Phoenix was actually sitting on the egg tonight.</p>
<p>I’m a little worried, I haven’t seen Phoenix left alone for this long.</p>
<p>Phoenix is no longer alone.</p>
<p>Phoenix is getting fish, and WOW, look at the size difference between him and the other egg … it’s about the size of Phoenix’s thigh now.</p>
<p>Okay… today’s breakfast is a small mammal with a long tail. It’s hard to watch them eat it.</p>
<p>After looking at the critter Phoenix and parent had for breakfast, I think it was a young Opossum. It was fairly light in color and had a long hairless tail. They are marsupials and are more active at night. Maybe mom/dad eagle got lucky catching it as it made it’s way back to it’s den early in the morning.</p>
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<p>Some reassuring info from the Hornby site: </p>
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<p>While I find that info reassuring, the info on # of eaglets that survive their first flight could be better - I’d personally like 100%.</p>
<p>So funny - I had just clicked onto the eagle cam and phoenix struggled to his feet, turned round and let out a stream of poop - all over his Dad (or MOM, they were both in the nest). I imagine the plan was for said poo to go outside of the nest and Dad was just in the wrong spot. Oh the joys of parenthood.</p>
<p>We’ve been watching the Eagles for some days now, really enjoying it. This morning I opened the shade in D’s room to the sight of 4 robins in a nest right outside her window! They’re almost old enough to fly, we think.</p>
<p>OMG! I just took a peek for the first time in nearly a week. Phoenix got sooo big! I can’t believe it. Wow.</p>
<p>Phoenix is alone again–nice close-up.</p>
<p>Treetopleaf, your daughter must keep different hours than mine did in high school. We had a chickadee nest inside the soffit outside her bedroom window. Not too far into May, DD came stomping downstairs at 7:30 one Saturday (instead of noon). “There’s a frackin’ bird nest in my ceiling!”<br>
She did eventually get interested in watching them. Soon gone. Soffit repaired.</p>
<p>I feel so sorry for the eagle family! The weather has been truly miserable for the past couple of days…</p>
<p>Very stormy on Hornby Island today</p>