Park Eagle Nest Going Green 4-28-15

Last Tuesday, a little more than a week ago, the nest looked like this. MT....

 Looking very green this week with perhaps a dark blob or trunk in the center....

Surprise, surprise!!! An adult, probably Mom, and a dark blob. Creative crawling through the jungle found some better views....

 Two heads!....

A BIG baby beak.  In two weeks, this eaglet has mushroomed. It must be a single chick....

 Mom alone.  Must be naptime for Junior....



A Special Visitor, 4-17-15

At the Chelsea Farmhouse Office on Friday, we saw this lovely fox in the backyard grass.  During the afternoon we heard off and on some sounds that seemed like a large bird or duck....

We kept checking nearby trees and then saw through the back porch door, a furry critter under a holly bush next to the building.  A fox kit!!!!... 

 

Some baby "chirps"!.....

 



Xtra Eagle Photos

Here's Mom on this Tuesday PM....

 On the same day, here's Dad on guard duty from high above....

 And the dot at top shows how high he really is!!!...

 Difficult to see, but one? of the blob(s) is being fed.  Mom was in this same position at breakfast time!....

A Little Surprise

I took a picture last Tuesday PM of the Park eagle nest.  It was starting to sprinkle after work and I thought Mom may have been laying down on chicks!? Who knows? If she was gone, they maybe huddled down themselves. Guess the adult there was not going to be a "Dadbrella"!

SURPRISE!!  My good friend, Doris, who works weekends at the Park sent me this picture Sunday!!!..... 



Park Fauna and Flora, March, 2015

Last Tuesday, one of our naturalists at the Park said that an eagle followed her car toward the Visitor Center.  Shortly, an "almost grown" juvie landed in the perching tree near our office! Is this the one?  Never seen one with an almost all white head...

 Better view of beak and white feathers in the tail!...

 Following pics are from Chelsea "Farm" Office.  Our yearly geese residents joined some deer in front of the office.  Hope they have chicks this year....

 More deer.  In the 6 or 7 visitor group is one very active yearling.  If it runs close to an adult, they chase it away! Might be the 2 in back row, left.  Last week, we actually counted almost 30 deer together!!...

 One of the lovely red-tailed hawks actually landed! Too bad you can't really view the tail....

 Last Wednesday, 3-25, we saw some new crocuses!!...

Eaglet #1 !!!

Here's JudyE's great capture of Eggbert, the greyish blob between the white eggs/shells...

Ospreys Are Back!!!!

Was able to photograph the ospreys this past Tuesday, although the Tuesday before was our first sighting...

Fish for breakfast!....