West End ~ Koa Flies To Historic Nest After Fledging! Awesome Closeups + Koa Lying In Nest 💕🎉 6.3.24

After Koa fledged this morning, the cam op panned & searched the area but Koa could not be seen. Then three hours later, Thunder flies into the nest with a fish for Treasure & Sterling. Koa heard the squees and from the WEO cam we can see Koa flying in to the old historic West End nest! Koa makes itself at home on the rocks overlooking the new nest and the ocean. Koa is flying like a pro - really cool to watch now!

Thunder is seen to the right of Koa perched above the new nest as Sterling and Treasure eat their fish breakfast. Koa then decides to rest after such an exciting morning and lies down on the old nest and gets comfy! Koa spends the rest of the morning and all of the afternoon up here! Koa does return to its nest and faces two siblings not very happy with its return ( that will be in my next video - it is quite the show!) Thank you for watching!
To see the highlights below, please click on the timestamps to advance to that portion of the video.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 OPENING Thunder flies in to the nest with a fish for Treasure & Sterling
02:17 Koa hears the squees & flies in to the historic nest!
02:43 Slo-mo of Koa's return flight
03:30 Closeups of Koa
06:05 Koa zipping its tail feathers
06:45 Thunder seen to the right of Koa
07:35 More closeups of Koa
09:42 Koa jumps down from the rock to the historic nest
10:40 Closeups of Koa lying in historic nest
13:50 Treasure & Sterling on their nest watching for Koa

Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk

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Nest info: Eaglets WE1 (Koa), hatch 3/9 -3am; WE2 (Treasure), hatch 3/9 -7pm; WE3 (Sterling) 3/12 hatch by 4:10am; Thunder (F) 15 yrs old; Akecheta (M) (wing tag 61) 8 yrs old.

This eagle pair is a success story, part of a bald eagle restoration program started by the Institute for Wildlife Studies in 1980. Their nest has been active since 1991 and has been streaming live since 2005.

The West End Bald Eagle Cam is made possible through an educational partnership between Institute for Wildlife Studies, Montrose Settlements Program, Santa Catalina Island Conservancy, and Explore.org.

Read the full nest history here: https://www.iws.org/west-end-nest-his...

I recommend watching this video to learn about why the eagles have patagial tags also known as wing bling & the conservation work conducted in saving the bald eagles:

Return Flight: Restoring the Bald Eagle to the Channel Islands:    • Return Flight: Restoring the Bald Eag...  

Courtesy of IWS West End Bald Eagle Cam and Explore.org.
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