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Sunday, June 10, 2012

White Rock Eagles nest

When laboop2u our chat room moderator tuned in to the Hancock Wildlife White Rock Eagle Nest site the parent eagle (don't know which one) was sitting on the limb and she noticed that another bird was flying around! She thought it was the other parent.
It kept getting closer and closer and then she realized it was a crow and was buzzing the eagle. The eagle watched it but did nothing for a long time. Once the eagle had to hunch down because the crow flew right over it's back! After about an hour of this happening off and on it started calling for its mate. The mate came in with food and started feeding eaglets and then the crow started up again.! Both parents were giving warning signs and then the first parent took off at the same time the crow was flying by. You could see the eagle circling the area and there were 3 crows following it! (They show up as dots in the captures)
The eagle flew by with the crows following and they didn't come back. I assume the eagle led them away from the nest.
laboop2u didn't see them come back again.

http://www.hancockwildlife.org/index.php?topic=white-rock-eagle1