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Seaside Weather at 6am: 9°C/48°F... Precipitation: 20%... Humidity: 86%... Wind: 21 km/h... Mostly cloudy today, warming into the mid 50sF with quite a bit of wind. |
1:20 am
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Naha very lightly shelter the egg, not quite brooding, but just covering |
4:03 am
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Bruce in, Naha stands off the egg.... Mating |
4:11 am
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Bruce off nest |
4:17 am
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Naha resumes light brooding |
4:50 am
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Bruce back in |
4:56 am
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Bonding, and Naha stands off the egg |
5:05 am
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Naha resumes light brooding |
5:26 am
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Bruce flies off low to the northwest |
5:31 am
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Bruce arrives, gently pushes Naha to rise off the egg.... Bruce takes a turn brooding. Naha flies off to the east.... Wingstretch! |
5:52 am
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Naha flies back in from her break |
6:04 am
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Naha reclaims her egg, nudging Bruce off..... Mating..... Bruce flies off the nest |
6:04:201
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Good look at the egg |
6:09 am
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Naha alerts sharply, looking overhead |
6:16 am
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Bruce flies back in, tries for more egg time but Naha refuses... she is barely covering the egg, and wants to keep it that way! |
6:22 am
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Bruce flies off low over the swings to the west..... fish time maybe |
6:29 am
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Bruce in, carefully nudging Naha off the egg and taking her place..... She perches on the rim |
6:43 am
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Something flew in to the cam post, startling Bruce off the egg.... GOOD LOOK AT THE EGG... whoever it is seems to be no concern to them |
6:53 am
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Naha back on the egg, very lightly |
7:10 am
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Bruce flies off and around. and back in..... Mating attempt (she would not raise her tail!).... Bruce perches on the north rim, Naha steps off the egg |
7:14 am
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Naha back on the egg, loosely..... Yes, August, just like musical eggs! 😂 Bruce flies off to the west. |
7:28 am
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Bruce in with grasses (!) trying to shove them into the cup.... Naha steps off and Bruce aerates and then covers the egg at 7.28 |
7:30 am
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Bruce off the egg, he flies off the nest and takes all that nasty grass with him! |
7:34 am
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Naha resumes loose brooding |
7:39 am
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Bruce in, asking for more egg time.... (I guess he has forgotten about trading a fish?) He gently shovels Naha off the egg... hahaaaa |
7:45 am
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Bruce flies off to the north.... Naha is very lightly brooding/sheltering the egg under the edge of her wing (no heat) |
8:06 am
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Bruce comes in with a fish! Naha doesn't get up to take it so he flies it off to prepare it for her. |
Bruce (M,Whole) |
8:11 am
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Bruce back in with the now headless fish. Naha still doesn't get it up. So he polishes it off in the nest. |
8:23 am
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Naha flies off the nest, alerting. |
8:25 am
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Naha's back. |
8:26 am
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Mating attempt. She didn't lift her tail. |
8:28 am
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Naha resumes brooding lightly |
8:32 am
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Bruce is back out for now. |
8:56 am
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Bruce flies in, tries to talk mama off the egg... She is not having it. (I wonder if she knows he broods too tightly right now? I wonder how they figure all this out!) |
9:02 am
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Bruce off, in the building wind.... |
9:16 am
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Bruce in, for another try at egg time.... He gently crowds Naha, and she doesn't give way.... |
9:21 am
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Bruce flies off.... and back in again with grass, tries again for egg time. No dice..... Naha is oblivious. |
9:32 am
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Semi-distant osprey vocals, both listen.... |
9:34 am
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Bruce flies off to the west |
9:55 am
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Bruce in with a huge long stick.... Naha steps off the egg, and Bruce takes her place |
10:01 am
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+++ GREAT VIEW OF THE EGG |
10:01 am
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++ Naha gets caught in the lichen and grass over the egg, the whole mess falls over the egg, and once she frees herself, she hauls it off to the north rim |
10:02 am
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Bruce steps off the egg, and Naha slides in to brood |
10:36 am
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Bruce flies off fast to the North.... Naha steps off the egg for a minute, then back on |
10:44 am
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Bruce flies in, with a fish it seems... He eats, enticing Naha who steps off the eggs and takes it (a young trout I think) She eats it on the east rim, Bruce watches over the egg. |
Bruce (M,) |
10:53 am
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Bruce broods the egg for a second, then aerates.... then covers the egg. |
10:54 am
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Bruce steps back off the egg and aerates some more.... |
10:55 am
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Bruce back on the egg |
10:57 am
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Having finished her fish, Naha gleans scraps Bruce steps off the egg. |
10:59 am
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Bonding.... finally he flies off to the northwest |
11:05 am
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Naha resumes light brooding, while trying to chop up the offending vegetation with her beak..... |
11:06 am
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Naha off the egg again, trying to dispose of the awkward vegetation.... This time she drops it on the west rim.... will it stay? |
11:08 am
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After aerating, she covers the egg lightly again... the mess stays on the west rim. |
11:18 am
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Bruce lands on the cam post.... with some quiet chirps |
11:39 am
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Bruce flies down from the cam post, both look around overhead.... Bruce alerts (Somebody is up there) Naha also alerts, a big bird (eagle?) flies low past the north rim, both birds defensive. I think it flew back over again, in circles, from where our birds were looking..... |
12:02 pm
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Naha steps off the egg, and flies out for a break.... Bruce moves in to brood, finding the big messy vegetation is in the way... he tries to move it aside.... |
12:08 pm
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Bruce finally settles on the egg |
12:35 pm
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Naha flies back in from her break.... Mating.... Bruce flies out and Naha takes over with her light brooding |
12:47 pm
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Naha off the egg, once again wrestling with the veggie mess. She loses the battle and resumes brooding |
12:50 pm
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Bruce arrives.... perches on the east rim. |
1:00 pm
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Bruce flies off, low to the west |
1:11 pm
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Bruce flies in, nudges Naha off the egg and settles on the egg |
1:16 pm
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Bruce backs off the egg.... aerates the nestbowl |
1:49 pm
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Naha nudges Bruce off the nest bowl..... Bonding..... Bruce finally flies off to the west. Naha broods the egg very lightly |
1:55 pm
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Naha off the egg, tangling with the vegetation again..... aerating |
1:57 pm
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Naha back to light brooding |
2:10 pm
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Bruce in with some materials..... He nudges Naha off the egg and settles there. Then steps off the egg. |
2:15 pm
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Naha back on the egg, Bruce on the north rim |
2:22 pm
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Bruce flies off to the west |
2:48 pm
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Bruce in..... Bonding.... Naha steps off the egg. Naha mentions that she could use some supper..... |
2:51 pm
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Naha back on the egg |
3:20 pm
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Bruce into the nest with a headless fish! Naha takes it off nest |
Bruce (L,Headless) |
3:24 pm
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Bruce takes over brooding the egg |
3:46 pm
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Naha back in... |
3:55 pm
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Bonding |
3:57 pm
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Bruce flies off nest..... Naha resumes brooding the egg |
5:00 pm
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Bruce in with a headless young trout.... Naha steps off the egg, yet seems indifferent about the fish |
Bruce (M,Headless) |
5:04 pm
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Bruce floats away on the wind with the fish..... |
5:06 pm
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Naha resumes brooding after finally getting that wad of vegetation out of the nest cup! |
5:51 pm
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Bruce flies in.... Naha steps off the egg and flies out for a break..... Bruce wastes no time getting onto the egg. |
7:01 pm
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Naha flies in just before dark.... Bruce jumps up off the egg to greet her.... Mating..... Bruce flies off to the east |
7:04 pm
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After a couple ups and downs, Naha settles onto the egg, fiddling with the vegetation wad...... |
10:07 pm
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Naha steps off the egg |
10:16 pm
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Naha resumes brooding |
11:19 pm
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Naha off the egg, flies out for a wingstretch |
11:38 pm
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Naha settles back down on the egg |