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[shoekitty]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

I'm really rooting for the little one. 

Doesn't seem to *feed* well.  Food will be held right to it's beak and it doesn't accept it.   

Bigger eaglet with sit on it-- it's head, it's wing, to keep it down. 

Poor thing just gives up.

I hope it makes it.  

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@Lucky Charm 

After the shock of one eaglet dying, now I'm even more concerned about the little guy.   

I keep remembering he's 5 days younger than the bigger chick, and while it may be a lot now, in a month the 5 day difference will be negligible ... I think.  

Fingers crossed.  

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@  I think he is the tough one!!  

[Lucky Charm]

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@shoekitty wrote:

A group of eagles is called an assembly or a convocation of eagles. Lo I wonder where the names came from. The funniest is a murder of crows, lol

what about a trembling of finches.   

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Yes, I love seeing all the names of *flocks*. 

A group of flamingos is called a *flamboyance*!  And rightly so!

[Lucky Charm]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

I'm really rooting for the little one. 

Doesn't seem to *feed* well.  Food will be held right to it's beak and it doesn't accept it.   

Bigger eaglet with sit on it-- it's head, it's wing, to keep it down. 

Poor thing just gives up.

I hope it makes it.  

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@Lucky Charm 

After the shock of one eaglet dying, now I'm even more concerned about the little guy.   

I keep remembering he's 5 days younger than the bigger chick, and while it may be a lot now, in a month the 5 day difference will be negligible ... I think.  

Fingers crossed.  

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@Tinkrbl44 

I knew it was a few days younger, but looking at it's sibling all along, it was just a little more fluffier (self-grooming?) and the wee one has a darkness around it's eyes.  To my eye, anyway...

I keep thinking that it just looks weak and *anemic*-- not saying that's what it is though.  Just what I think of it as.

[Tinkrbl44]

Tuesday morning they had a nice breakfast of fish, and now they are getting lunch. 

The amount of the babies' fuzz has increased and they look so cute!  

[Lucky Charm]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

Tuesday morning they had a nice breakfast of fish, and now they are getting lunch. 

The amount of the babies' fuzz has increased and they look so cute!  

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Must've seen the same feeding as you.  Both were well fed.  Halleluja!

[shoekitty]

They must be really close to lake for fish. It's so cold the fish are slow this time of year or at the bottom in torpor.  They seem to have a good fishing spot. The little guys are full of Omega oils!!!   Makes for great feathers!!  Lol in a couple weeks the fuzz should start turning brown. Eaglets get their real feathers about 5-10 weeks .  Can't wait to see them change, although they are just too precious all fuzzy!!!

[Mz iMac]

@shoekitty @Lucky Charm @Tinkrbl44 @SoCal Bred @Jk9 

The larger chick water proof black feathers are starting to come through the fluff.  The more it grooms itself, the faster the real feathers start growing.

Anybody notice it now has clown shoe claws so now able to "stand up" for longer times.  Sometimes taking a few steps.

The smaller chick (I call the runt) is starting to groom.  A few black feathers I can see in the sun.

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The Mike Tyson & Mohammad Ali bonking is getting really bad.  Somebody is going to draw blood.  The runt is really good at poking its sibling around the eyes & back of head.

What strikes me as odd is that both parents "watch" the bonking 15 rounds.  I expect Jackie to at least give both chicks her famous wing B-Slap.  Since the runt's feet are still unsteady, the larger chick stands up on its HUGE claws, knocks the runt down into the nest face first, holding the back of the runts head into the ground then sits on it!  

I've watched eagles through the years raising their young.  This is the worse bonking for the pecking order/dominance I've ever witnessed.

[Tinkrbl44]

@Mz iMac   @shoekitty 

That little one is five days younger, and I think he's goiing to be holding his own in no time. 

I just don't think the little guy will continue to tolerate that nonsense for much longer.  

[shoekitty]

Here to the runt, Punky.  Pulling a punch soon.  Might tough in him up. I wonder if they are 2 males?  Hard to tell til they are older and get colors.  

[Tinkrbl44]

@shoekitty @Mz iMac  @Lucky Charm  @SoCal Bred  @Jk9 

This is the the Eagle Log for Thursday, 3-20-25 detailing what happened on the 19th.

There were plenty of feedings today, as was obvious by the giant size of both chicks’ crops. And it was a warm day, so both of them were panting a bit. Panting in eagles is completely normal, since just like dogs, they do not have sweat glands.

The chicks were apparently feeling energetic as they sat with Mama Jackie in the afternoon sun. The bigger chick practiced ‘wingersizing,’ flapping those fast-growing wings a bit stronger than yesterday’s test run.

And the little one watched the big one carefully. Then, a few minutes later, stood up and tried that wingersizing thing for the first time. It was short, but a good start for such tiny wings.

They’ve also been practicing their poop shots. The smaller chick shot one right over the bough of the bigger one, then the bigger one shot right toward the camera. But the smaller one won the competition with a perfect shot right into the side of Jackie’s head!

As she still dripped white ooze down her face, Jackie got bonked by Shadow bringing in yet another fish (5 for the day!) What a great Papa!

On another note…After careful review of the two chicks still in the nest, it appears they have a large age gap between them, which would mean Chick3 is still in the nest. This is based on –

1) Foot size--eagle chicks show their first growth spurt in their feet and the bigger chick is already starting to show clown feet, but the smaller one is not,

2) Thermal down--the bigger chick has a more advanced dark gray thermal down, than the smaller one.

But since there is a small size difference and the food aggression is lower, it appears that despite being the most well fed and dominant sibling, Chick1 is the one that did not survive the storm.

It is a sad situation, in any case, but after reviewing the information, we thought you’d like to know and understand as much as we have gathered. Sometimes having more information can help our minds and hearts calm down a bit.

Since there is no way to know for sure that it is Chick2 and Chick3 in the nest, we will temporarily call them the Bigger Chick (BC) and the Smaller Chick (SC), until the naming contest (details to be announced soon).