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I had been following the life of a bald eagle couple, (they mate for life) in Rocky River Reservation, the female had laid a single egg. While hunting for food, the male was killed by a passenger plane landing at Cleveland Hopkins Airport. With shock and much sadness, I started to wonder what would happen to mom and the egg. Some wondered if the miracle of Sand Ridge would happen here where another male would help. Sure enough another male showed up, and started to help about 5 days ago the egg hatched, and the male has continued to help. Here is the update with the first photos of the baby! Stay tuned more photos to be added.
Mom with Baby, step-dad nowhere around.
Step-dad comes back.
Everyone seems happy.
Lots of love.
Squirrel dinner! Yummy
This is exciting as it shows the step-dad is hunting for them!
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Stay tuned for more updates, here and at the photo blogs!
I'm not even going to pretend these pics are as good as Jim's (maybe if I had better equipment?!?!) ... but as I told him today, most of the joy of photography is sharing; sharing time spent with a fellow photographer out in the field .. .and sharing your work with friends, family, neighbors
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Late morning (not sure if this is momma or stepfather.)
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Late morning (not sure if this is momma or stepfather.)
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Later in the day (around 6:30pm). Glad to have had the opportunity to introduce Jeanne to the eagles nest and share this particular moment with her!
"So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.
Since we're together we might as well say:
Would you be mine? Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor?"
Peter Grossetti wrote:I'm not even going to pretend these pics are as good as Jim's (maybe if I had better equipment?!?!)
Peter,
You need to go high-tech like me. Here are photos taken with an iPhone 4 through one lens of 7x35 Nikon binoculars. All you have to do is hold the binoculars with one hand. The other hand only has to hold the iPhone in position, touch the right part of the screen for focus and exposure, and hit the shutter release button without shaking any of the parts.
All I can say is that I was there. The photos kind of prove it.
Steve
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Nothin' shakin' on Shakedown Street.
Used to be the heart of town.
Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart.
You just gotta poke around.
I think we can all agree with Peter's comment, "but as I told him today, most of the joy of photography is sharing; sharing time spent with a fellow photographer out in the field .. .and sharing your work with friends, family, neighbors."
Isn't it time you got your LO Photoblog, and shared some images of your Lakewood Experience today? http://lakewoodobserver.com/members and ask for a photoblog, it is that easy!
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Jim O'Bryan
Lakewood Resident
"The very act of observing disturbs the system." Werner Heisenberg
"If anything I've said seems useful to you, I'm glad.
If not, don't worry. Just forget about it." His Holiness The Dalai Lama
It was a busy weekend, with painting the house and getting two papers out, but I managed a little time with the bald eagles, and that baby is getting big!
This weekend the baby eagle many of us thought would never survive took its first very short flight. Actually it might have surprised itself! Saturday June 1, I went and watched the nest for about 4 hours. The past couple days had seen the baby eagle stretching its wings, and checking them out.
Saturday was different, he would run around the edge of the nest with his wings out, almost like pretending to fly. Then he would sit and pull out some more downey feathers, then pretend again. By noon he was getting pretty serious and tried to hop in the air, then flap, when suddenly he rose to about 4' in the air, and stopped! He fell back to the nest and seemed surprised and shocked. Then he did it again, this time landing on the edge of the nest on the opposite side. A flight of about 6'.
The parents came back and he settled down, and ate some fish, and slept. But he knew, he could very soon, soar like an eagle.
This has been an amazing voyage for the baby and me. I was mad when OD&R refused to help the widowed mother before the eagle hatched. Metro Parks said, "this is life in the wild" yet many of the nest watcher spoke of the miracle of Sandy Hook where another male stepped up and took over with feeding and tending the baby. Sure enough the little guy grew, and grew fast. He went from an ugly little thing to looking like an eagle. It was the miracle eagle of Rocky River Reservation, and I am very happy it is!
Here on some images of those first flights, and some videos from that day.
Dad did a low level fly by down Elmwood Ave on Sunday...
WARNING TO ALL PET OWNERS!!!!
having spent lots of time in Alaska, I have personally seen these things go after cats and small dogs. And they don't have to carry them off to do severe damage, if not kill. so be aware, any unattended animal in the yard may become lunch.
"I met with Bret one on one and found him impossible to deal with." - S.K.
