Great stories about Lady!  Thanks!

Hera and Mintaka have their first egg!  

http://falcons.woodmen.org/falcon_cam.cfm

She had a hard time laying the egg, we watched her laboring and it was honestly the toughest time I've seen a female trying to lay an egg have on cam.  The only exception to that was at Cobb last year where the female died as she was egg-bound.

Yesterday and Saturday we watched all day as she tried again to lay another egg and no go.  She was exhausted last night.

I was watching plus reading posts about her difficulty in egg-laying.  Sweet Dorothy. 

And a little beaking to start the day...

   

                 

Glad she is OK....still feel bad for her. Those man Eagles!!! 

Me too. I couldn't believe he abandoned her to take up with new female after everything they've both been through this past year.

I'm hoping it's her, but really can't tell from the picture.  Why do people keep saying Larry abandoned her?  It's just like the peregrines and Lucy may have beat a lot of odds in the last year, but she sure couldn't fight another big female and males most times would fight the males.  Male eagles pick a nest spot and do a lot of the building and share it with their female.  He was protecting and staying with his nest.  We see the peregrines fight and whichever one wins stays with the mate that is there already, both the male and female don't leave normally.  I hate to see what happened and do worry about her, but we all know from the sounds of things she also was not the original Lucy, what happened to the first one?  I'm sorry, I'm not directing this at you Kris, or anyone in particular, just venting about the situation.  I DO hope someone can find and get a good picture of Lucy just so we know. 

I understand exactly what you are saying Nora, it's just the way it is in the bird world. As humans, we may not like it and we have an over flow of emotions about it all. I'm sure Lucy understands more than us about all this and knows what she must do to protect herself! If she was well, she would have fought for that nest. I just feel kind of sad for her.

I wasn't aware of this but chat people said that Lucy had started to defecate in the nest so there was speculation that she wasn't well.  Larry could have sensed this and went for the stronger female, the one that had the highest chance of reproduction and Lucy probably knew she couldn't fight so she, hopefully, left on her own accord. I just felt, as many did, that he was so good to her during her severe foot injury, taking care of her and providing her with food, that he flipped mates so fast.  Bonded pairs like Eagles usually do mate for life but, as we have discovered here, mating for life, which was thought to be the norm for Peregrines, just isn't so.

Now I just read that people on Eagles4kids FB page think this Eagle has 2 feet and they can't say that this is Lucy.  Bummer...I really had hoped this was her.   

Glad she is OK....still feel bad for her. Those man Eagles!!! 

Me too. I couldn't believe he abandoned her to take up with new female after everything they've both been through this past year.

Since the intruder female took over the nest and bonded with Larry, there had been no sign of Lucy, although many were looking for her almost on a daily basis. This was posted on the FB page, We Love Our Lucy, today with a pic:

Good news! Sue Schneider got this photo in Arcadia and Christine Stange blew it up....we think it most likely is Lucy! Thank you, Sue, for going out to look for her. And thank you, Chris, for helping us ID this wonderful eagle! It is such a relief to know she is ok!


                                      

We are delighted to be able to confirm that the osprey which arrived yesterday at Loch of the Lowes is indeed our regular breeding male.  Your ranger spent last night pouring over the video of his arrival yesterday around 2pm, and comparing plumage patterns to photos and video from the last two breeding seasons.  All the plumage patterns match- a particularly telling one, for example, is the large brown dot under his right wing that is clearly visible in yesterdays pictures by Val Gall, and in these 2012 and 2013 images:

copied from there site

Thanks, BC! 

Still there.

Where is that Beauty?  She's late for our meeting!

(movie)

Has this been posted? I saw it for the first time today.

Penguin Quality Assurance Team Tests Out A Trip Rope

I haven't seen it before...funny!   

Quest at her nest  7:12 am

Nice pic! 

       

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pcarey2786 (patsy6): Got questioned by cop at brighton. He is ok with falcon watchers.

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