West End Eagles ~ TREASURE FLEDGES! 🎉 💕 SEEN FLAPPING WINGS ON CLIFF! AMAZING KOA FLYBYS 6.8.24

The video opens with a beautiful view of the entire family seen on cam! You have Koa on the historic nest rock on the left, then Thunder & AK to the right on the tor, and Sterling and Treasure below on the nest ♥ We have some great closeups of Sterling and Treasure. Treasure ventured way down on the basement before fledgling a little while later. When the cam pans away to the historic nest and back, only Sterling is seen on the nest.

Treasure has fledged at 91 days old!! Congratulations to the 2nd fledgling of the season 🎉 💕! Before we find were Treasure is hiding- we have some great flybys by Koa (I put in slo-mo) and one of Thunder taking off right after Koa. You can tell this is Koa and not Treasure who is flying by because of all the white feathers in the underside of the wings and the tail. Treasure has very little white in his tail.

Later in the afternoon, Koa is still on the rock of the historic nest but there is some wing activity happening right below the nest! Treasure is seen flapping its wings from the cliff side ledge it landed on. The cam zooms in and we see wing flapping activity for a couple of hours - looks like Treasure remained there for the night. Sterling is sleeping on the nest and Koa is roosting on the night perch with Thunder and AK close by!

Another amazing day with the West End Triplets! I think Sterling is going to fledge very soon - maybe in the morning! And it will be exciting to see Treasure make it back to the nest! 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 Entire family seen on cam!
03:20 Sterling closeups
03:57 Treasure closeups
05:20 Treasure way down in basement - closeups
09:31 Treasure & sterling on nest, cam pans
09:50 Treasure fledged - only Sterling on nest
12:30 Sterling doing vigorous wingers
13:04 Koa amazing flyby in slo-mo + Thunder in slo-mo
13:47 Another Koa flyby in slo-mo - landing gear down
14:54 Treasure is seen! Wings flapping on ocean side of cliff below Koa
15:30 Treasure wings flapping
16:47 More views of Treasure flapping
18:10 Sterling lying down on nest
19:52 Koa on night perch ♥ Treasure in the same spot

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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