That chunk of breakfast is going to freak me out all day thinking it's a wounded baby

Wings!

 

Figuring out what those things are for

You know she was in a hurry to feed them if it wasn't plucked first!

Let me help you with that Mom!

 

BREAKFAST!

Good morning! Hope we have some sun today!  

Linda Woods caught this dinner pic!

They seem to be enjoying the rain today

I knew I had seen this discussion before...thank you Kfalconcam yahoo group archive...

Banding day 2006 news:

All three eyases were found to be in good health, with clear mouths and vents.  Avian lice was present on all birds, but that's not at all unusual.  From Barbara Loucks comes the following banding notes:

"Rhea Mae"  Female,  Silver  (no colored tape) USFWS band 1687-01188, Black/Red P/*T

"Sabrina"  Female, Red tape over USFWS band 1687-01189, Black/Red M/*T

"Aura"  Female, Blue tape over USFWS band 1687-01190, Black/Green 50/U
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---Its been mentioned that the girls had lice & that its perfectly normal but do they do anything to get rid of the lice? (Kathy)

---Kathy, i don't know much but in this case I think it's an exercise in
futility to treat these lice even if it could be done with complete
safety. Thing is they come from the birds they eat so they would be
reinfected anyway! It used to "bug" me as I'm always trying to free my
pets of cooties, but I guess the immune systems of predators have to
learn to deal, hmmm? (julie)

---Hi Kathy and Julie
Try to get rid of lice can be very stressing and dangerous for the
eyases, the only way to do it completely is using some insecticides,
and even with them there is almost imposible to remove or kill the
eggs. And we must remember that Kaver and Mariah will reinfest their
daughters in a blink.
Avian lices are species specific, only a few can survive in different
kind of hosts and mostly for short time. Lices and bird hosts have
evolved together, only close relatives species can have the same lice
species. The lice specialists can ID a bird with its lice only...
Mirta

------also , avian lice are different than the lice that humans can get ,
and very common. It would be strange to not find them (Liza O)

We've seen those dark spots on every brood at Times Square. I don't honestly recall at Kodak-maybe I wasn't watching that closely back then. Could be a Beauty thing. I think DC was trying to figure out how to flip it without hurting it.

They were all up and feeding. All 3 have flopped over at one point or another. The 1st one was a yellow foot-this time it was a pink foot.  One of them flopped over a few minutes ago & righted itself just fine.

We can certainly ask DEC to look at the pictures if anything really seems amiss.

So Carol did ask DEC on Friday about the dark wing-pits. They said it's nothing to be concerned about. Most likely that the skin is very transparent at that stage and we're seeing feather structures starting to develop under the skin.

They all had the typical avian lice which they get from prey and does not require any treatment. No other parasites were mentioned.

I don't understand why they weren't dusted or sprayed for the lice.  I would think if you see lice, you would treat them.  Lice bite, chew, crawl causing itching and irritation..poor babies.  

http://www.themodernapprentice.com/diseases.htm

Well, I can't speak for the DEC, but if they were given a clean bill of health I see no reason to dust them with poison to kill lice that are now and will always be naturally present throughout their lives. Healthy birds will preen off any that may be bothering them.

Management of this sort of thing in a captive population, as in the article you cited, is an entirely different matter.

Edit...started a topic just for avian lice discussion...found some old info from years ago...

Breakfast!

Looks like Pigeon feathers.

That was my first thought but it seemed smaller than a pigeon. Hard to tell

Any guesses what Dot brought for dinner?

Poor wet Beauty