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Lake Washington EagleCam Story
Update
July 1, 2008
As many
of our viewers have noticed one of the young bald eagles has
not moved over a period of several days from the prone position
in the nest. To complicate things even further the tree trunk
protrudes through the center of the nest behind which the
eaglet is laying. The other nest sibling is very active as
it moves in and out of the nest apparently very close to fledging.
We do see the same pictures that you see and those images
serve as one of our most critical pieces of information on
the nesting success of this family of bald eagles almost 100
feet near the top of a large Douglas fir. The Washington Department
of Fish and Wildlife have no dedicated staff to observe continuous
images but we do appreciate and frequently depend on your
individual or collective observations on the events recorded
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What
this WildWatchCam and other are depicting are natural processes
and we will strive to interpret for you and often with your
assistance what is going on in the life and death struggles
that our cameras record. As we gain more information from
our wildlife biologists, people on or near the nest tree or
from you the viewers we will bring you those updates. As of
July 1 at 6:30PM in Washington it appears as though the Lake
Washington bald eagles have successfully raised one fledgling
bald eagle and the other may have died from unknown causes.
There is no reason to retrieve the suspected dead bird since
it might further jeopardize the healthy about to fledge bird.
We may consider a climb after the one bird fledges and at
that time a necropsy could be performed for possible cause
of death.
In
case you missed this past nesting season here are a few video
clips that capture eagle activities of nest building, parent
feeding and caring for young eaglets and young fledgling preparing
to leave the nest.
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