Author: Amy Law
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First Bald Eagle Chick at Fort St. Vrain Nest!
The first bald eagle chick at the Fort St. Vrain nest has just hatched! In the first screen shots I took this morning, the eagles hadn’t even moved the egg shell out from under the adult! According to the Excel website, the chick made it’s way into the world about 10:00 last night. Father cleaning…
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Bald Eagles in Wild Storm
With Winter Storm Ulmer crashing in, the bald eagles at their Fort St. Vrain nest (https://amylaw.blog/2019/02/10/eagle-cam/)have had a hard day today. It started off with driving sleet that soaked our birds. Both of them huddled together for about half an our — the longest I’ve seen both birds in the nest during the day. But…
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Zoe the Mighty Hunter
Winter Storm Ulmer has been an incredible storm so far — we woke up to rain that quickly changed to sleet, then snow. The atmospheric pressure keeps dropping — Pueblo, Colorado, set an unofficial low pressure record already this morning, and it’s supposed to drop further. But even in the middle of a bomb cyclone,…
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Angry Eagles
This morning, one of the bald eagles at the Fort St. Vrain nest was very upset about something. She had several different calls. Some sounded like a song bird, others a little like a gull. https://birdsna.org/Species-Account/bna/species/baleag/introduction None were the bold dramatic call we hear in movies — that’s actually a red-tailed hawk. I didn’t get…
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Bald Eagle Egg #3, Day 1
The Fort St. Vrain Bald Eagles have been busy. They’ve added more sticks to their nest… … they are eating well… … and as of this morning, they’ve laid a third egg. If I’ve counted correctly, we should start seeing eaglets around March 20.
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Bald Eagle Egg #2 Day 1
The Fort St. Vrain Bald Eagles fussed about their nest again today. Those sticks just aren’t quite right! The larger eagle, in the foreground, flew off, and left us with a view of the smaller eagle — and two eggs. Of concern: snow and single digit night time temperatures for the next few days…
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Bald Eagle Egg #1, Day 1
The Bald Eagles at the St. Vrain Power Plant in Platteville, Colorado laid their first egg of the season sometime last night or early this morning. When I checked in on them around 10:00 this morning, one of the eagles was sitting in the depression they had carefully created in the nest.https://amylaw.blog/2019/02/10/eagle-cam/ I wasn’t sure…
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Eagle Cam
Many years ago, the local power company, Public Service of Colorado, placed a nest box on the smokestack of one of their power plants. They put a camera inside, and watched what happened. What happened was that a pair of Great Horned Owls moved in and raised a family. The public got to watch. Very…
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Library Goose
I love going to the library! You get the entire world at your fingertips — fiction, science, art, music, geese. Yes, geese were at the library this morning. Colorado has become a wintering stop for vast numbers of Canada geese, who earn their keep by turning dead grass on lawns into organic fertilizer. But this…
Amy Law, Science Geek 