Duke Farms Eagles 🥚🥚 Male Steps On Moms Beak-Brings Nesting-Mom Protects Those Eggs 🥚🥚 2024.02.17

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The Male after incubating must have thought the nest needed some new nesting as he brings some in while Mom incubates. The nest is not that sturdy right now with all that snow and he slides down and eventually steps on Mom's beak trying to gain leverage. The Male ends up leaving. Mom who is one tough Momma is not about to give up incubating as long as that snow is there and continues to incubate. She rolls the eggs later and some of the snow starts to fall cave in on her. That does not deter Mom at all as she just keeps incubating. Chances are she not leaving until the morning again. It's just the way Mom is.
𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞: The Snow provides excellent insulation for the eggs as they incubate. Those eggs are nice and warm
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠!

✿ 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐍𝐨 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐬𝐭 ✿

𝐄𝐠𝐠𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐢𝐝:
* 𝐄𝐠𝐠 #𝟏: 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟐, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝟑.𝟒𝟖𝐏𝐦
* 𝐄𝐠𝐠 #𝟐: 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟓, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝟑.𝟑𝟔𝐏𝐦

* 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐨 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 *
It has been confirmed that the Male at the Nest is not our beloved Dad by the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey. I will be referring to him as the Male in my captures. I do not have the heart to call him Dad. Dad was one of a kind

✿ Mom is the resident female on the nest arriving in September of 2019. Based on when she arrived and that she was 5 years old, Mom would be 9 years old now or older as of 2023 She is a great Mom and has fledged 5 eaglets here over the past 3 years

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐬𝐭
The eagle nest at Duke Farms was discovered in the fall of 2004. A cam was placed on a tree in 2008 for all viewers to enjoy. In 2012 the Nest tree was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy and the eagle couple built a new one that December in an American Sycamore tree in a restricted area of the property. This is the tree that is the one we now see live on YouTube. In 2013 the cams were moved to the new nest to accommodate better viewing of the nest.

𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲:
𝐃𝐚𝐝 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎-𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑
After 17 years of protecting his territory, Dad was last seen on Cam on May 19, 2023. He was 23 years old.
Though we could not see past the cam view it was evident that Dad was in a territorial dispute over the previous days by the action of him at the nest.
We will all miss you, Dad. There are no words to describe the dedication and courage you had over the years protecting your young and taking so well care of them. Your legacy will live on with over 30 fledglings you have helped bring up over the years. ❤️

My hope is always that Dad left the territory being older and wiser and not being able to defeat the intruder and is still somewhere out there. No eagle with his bands has been found up to now.
We will all miss you, Dad.

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