All About Flightless Young Eagle Found
Here is another post. United on Bay Watch Blog published Larry Hubble , local photographer and accomplished bird watcher.
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This photo was taken on Friday, June 3, 2022 by Fei Cheng and submitted by Jeff Graham (thanks!).
This young eagle is visible directly under the nest. The young eagle is too young to gouge out its eyes. Click here to see photos of the eagle taken two months ago.
Young vultures usually fly from Monty's and Marsha's nests in mid-July. I suspect it's too early for this little bird to leave the nest, but Masha will lay her eggs earlier this year. I've heard that as birds get older, the breeding process starts faster.
Although the young man is already a little mature, he does not know how to fly. If it hadn't been possible for him to escape to the upper branch, he would have been easily injured by an evasive dog, wolf, raccoon or otter. Although it has claws and a mouth, it can deal damage when attacked . In such a situation, with the small flightless bird still on the ground, it is best to quickly contact the Seattle Animal Shelter animal control team .
Thanks to Seattle Animal Control and everyone who helped set it up there. The young eagle was caught and left for the night. The next day he was transferred toPAWS (Progressive Animal Welfare Society) in Lynnwood. We are still awaiting the diagnosis of the chick .
Meanwhile, Jeff Brown suspects the eagle has (hopefully) a slightly broken wing bone. (Thanks, Jeff .) If the wing heals quickly and the bird learns to fly, it can be released near the nest. If a young eagle can be reunited with a family while its sibling is still around and still being fed by the parents, the adults are more likely to be fed again.
If you want to read more about the 2019 release of a very similar young eagle from the same nesting site , click here .
This photo was taken on Friday, June 3, 2022 by Fei Cheng.
Susan, who lives nearby, asked me if I thought the chick had suddenly been pushed out of the nest. In previous years, when other broods left the nest early, the nest was often destroyed. In this case, it seems that the nest is still missing. Susan's situation deserves serious consideration.
Could a young eagle, still sitting in its nest in a tree, accidentally knock its brother to the ground?
This photo was taken last Monday as one of the adult eagles headed for the fish and the remaining young eagle looked very happy.
After eating, the bird began to flap its wings. Behind the adult head, we see the wings of a young bird. If you look closely, the primary feathers (at the tip of the wing) are not yet fully developed and their attachment to the wing is not hidden by integuments, i.e. the feathers are exhibited. (The nib is the part of the pen you will hold when using it as a pen.) Grips help create a smooth, functional pen surface.
This photo from 2018 shows the adults and the previous version nesting in the same place. The fully developed primary wing feathers of the following eagle are very long, and the flaps on the inside of the wing cover the calamus or feathers.
By zooming in a little, we see more clearly the quills of the wings of a young bird . It is also interesting to note that in this image the eyes of the adult eagle are wide open.
Literally in a second, a funny cover from an adult flies past my eyes.
The transparent dot film protects the eyes while allowing the eagle to see. I believe using the membrane is a quick involuntary reaction when the subconscious mind decides the eye is in danger - similar to what happens when we blink before we strike. It can also happen when the eagle has live prey in its beak and gets stuck trying to free itself.
In the photos above, the adult eagle and the young eagle are on either side of the nest. However, the unconscious state of the adults shows that the wings of the young eagle are long enough to reach the nest and injure the eye. This confirms Susan's idea that a chick in the nest may have encountered another young bird.
While we're talking about eyes, it's curious how vultures change as they mature. This young bird from the same nest in 2018 was the same age as the current group of young vultures. Note the dark color of the eyes, the yellow color under the beak and the black tip. This color scheme is very similar to the young eagles of this year.
When I took this photo near Port Townsend, this eagle was about two years old. Beak colors changed slightly. The yolk spreads and illuminates the tip of the mouth. However, it is the color of the iris that changes significantly.
Besides the change in eye and beak color, there is other evidence of the longevity of this young eagle. When flying, it exhibits secondaries of varying lengths. If you want to understand how this relates to the lifespan of the bald eagle , click here .
When the vulture is fully mature, four or five years later, the beak is completely yellow and the iris is pale yellow-white.
Coming back to the current young solitary eagle, this photo shows the ratio between the length of the wings and the width of the nest. Although in fact they hide many nests.
Looking at the nest before the poplar has grown gives a better idea of the size of the nest. Compared to the wingspan of the young eagle in the previous photo, the flapping of the wings seems more likely to reach (and) collide with the chick sibling.
The attitude of the fallen eagle has a silver lining. The Urban Raptor Conservancy now has beacon ranges suitable for young vultures who wish to apply. (Thanks to the VGK team!) So if a lost eagle is rescued and released near its nest, it should make a new decoration. The unique code strip allows you to determine when and where it appeared. If recovery, release and hatching go as planned, we may see how long the returning young eagle will remain in the Union Bay area later this winter.
On the other hand, his brother had already started to levitate, and they were hanging in the air a bit. I suspect he will be completely out of the nest by mid-July. In any case, it will be interesting to see its first flight.
Last night, June 11, I stopped again to see the remaining young eagle. The house looks empty from the south.
The young eagle was not visible from the north. I know a little bird can sleep unnoticed in the middle of a nest. Moreover, he climbed on a branch and on a leaf where I did not see him. Or, however unlikely it may seem, he learned to fly and joined his parents elsewhere.
I was too tired to sit and wait, so I went to find the parents of the young eagle, if they were with them.
I found Monty sitting on a birch tree on a small island north of the Waterfront Entertainment Center. He was worried about a Red-winged Beard who didn't like the presence of a bald eagle in the area.
Masha has been in trouble for a long time on the beach behind Monty. She was abused by American workers. I saw no trace of a young eagle. After a while, Monty drives around Union Bay. When he returns, he lands on a tree near Marsha.
Suddenly, a young vulture begging for food notices a lost voice. If a bird sees Monty hunting, she'll be sure he'll start calling loudly for food. This leads me to conclude that the young eagle is probably nesting in a tree south of Montlake.
Indeed, when I returned to the nest, the bird was about two meters from the branch. The only horizontal branch attached to the nest. The young man began the process of branching out. Let's hope this guy learns to fly before he crashes.
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