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Wow Bville!  Quite the moon shot for sure!  I am watching other nests as well, and JJ is getting so big now.  She seems to spend hours facing into the wind these days on the edge of the nest, as if pondering her future. CAMFAN great shots from Starr Ranch, I was mesmorized by the hummers and I think I have those same shots as you do!! Stretchy nest and all...really cool. But I miss our pair...glad to hear reports on the other thread, too.

Wow Bville!  Quite the moon shot for sure!  I am watching other nests as well, and JJ is getting so big now.  She seems to spend hours facing into the wind these days on the edge of the nest, as if pondering her future. CAMFAN great shots from Starr Ranch, I was mesmorized by the hummers and I think I have those same shots as you do!! Stretchy nest and all...really cool. But I miss our pair...glad to hear reports on the other thread, too.

Tonight's spectacular Sooner Lake sunset over the Sutton Eagles' nest, rendered with some inspired camera work by "EagleGuy" on the Live Cam.







As the eagles settled for the night amidst such scenes, here was the view from Kay and Jay's Tulsa tower (storm clouds to the northwest).

Captures by Bville, from the Sutton Eagle cams and the KJRH Hawk Cam, hosted on http://www.kjrh.com/content/news/hawks/default.aspx

Awesome Pics B'ville... This is for cam fan how is tring to help me. Did not know where else to put it.

For those following the Norfolk Eagles, here is a link from Christina Murphy, who visited the nest site last weekend and took some videos of eaglets flapping, hopping, branching--and begging. Has sound, too. Go to this link and then click on each of the three video frames to play the different clips. You can read Christina's commentary on that same Norfolk Forum post.
http://www.norfolkeagles.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=667
Here are a couple of Christina's reports on the eaglets' progress this week (shared with her permission). She will return to the nest site this weekend, hoping to have more video to share.:
June 9
"HK finally got some food Saturday morning. He got an entire fish to himself, then ate Azalea’s leftovers. Then he got another entire fish to himself. His crop was HUGE!! I shot some video Saturday out at the gardens. The quality is horrible, but the content is fantastic. HK was so determined to get into the nest. He was vocalizing like crazy. And I got it on tape, complete with sound!!! I’ve got 3 bits of footage totaling about 10 minutes posted on the photographers nest. If you think it’s worth sharing, just share the link so people can see my explanation of why the video is so horrible and how the first video goes into the second video. And who they hear talking. (Reese is the local biologist. That’s the person who took HE home for the night when she fell out of the nest.) "
June 10
"HE spent last night away from the nest last night. She only went as far as the camera tree. She was gone about 24 hours. We weren’t as worried about her because she hadn’t gone far. And sure enough, she made her way back pretty quickly… Azalea looks so close to flying. She was going from the nest to the “love branch” which is the branch in front of the nest. And it does involve flapping to get down to it and flapping to get back. But she hasn’t left the branches and actually flown. She’s so close, we thought today was going to be the day. Oh well. There’s always tomorrow…"

B'ville thanks for the link they have gotten so big. Remember when they looked like this? Hope the pic shows up. Fingers crossed. If so Thanks for all the help and camfan too.


Well it did not work will try again later.

Mazie: I've sent you an email through the Forum.

bville!!  Good to see you.  I"ve tried to follow norfolk, the cam is down so often. Thanks for sharing!

Ok I am going to try this again...LOL  I received your email and printed it out followed the directions and it still did not work.  I am home and on laptop after I hit the reply the screen looks different then the one at work.  So it might work this time.  remember when the NF chicks looked like this? 

 

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2366/3617052564_87153af3d2.jpg

 

Well no picture just a link... Guess I am getting closer to figuring this out.  LOL

Have a great day guys.  Thanks for all the great photos and updates that have been provided.

 

Sutton/Sooner Lake eaglet descends from the bar this afternoon, with several seconds hang-time.

Fans of the Norfolk eagles:
Christina Murphy, of the Norfolk Eagles Forum, visited the Botanical Garden again yesterday. She took more footage of the recently fledged eaglets. Follow this link, and then click on the large video frames in the post by Chris7, for four clips of the day's action: 
http://www.norfolkeagles.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=714&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Great sequence Bville!!

Since Kay and Jay had an unsuccessful season, I've been watching the Philadelphia Franklin Institute RTH triplets and following the development of the NYC Riverside RTH triplets through the spectacular photos of Lincoln Karim at his website (thank you Sallyls for recommending the site).

It is with saddened heart that I read today that one of them had perished Saturday in a highway accident. Lincoln explains it, as only he can, on his page from June 20, 2009.

Here are his words:
"A most remarkable hunter too as he caught his first prey only eight days after leaving his nest. It was a rat he caught in the underbrush next to the highway most likely and attempted to fly east with the heavy prey which was at least one third his own weight. I’m pretty sure this forced him to fly very low. When I picked him up in the middle of the highway he still held the rat in his talons.

His mother left her perch on the streetlight where she watched over him for hours as she flew over my head I made sure she saw him. She instantly went over to her two babies waiting for her on their nest tree. I gently set him down at the side of the road and only then did the rat roll free from his strong grasp."

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live well --- laugh often --- love much

Yes, CamFan, what a sad development--especially poignant in its juxtaposition of triumph and tragedy, and comprehensible only, perhaps, in the context of some words familiar to many of us here by Henry Beston, in The Outermost House--In a world older and more complete than ours, [animals] move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.

Splendor and travail. The splendor of new-found flight and accomplishment, and the travail of sudden violence and unrealized life.
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So maybe it's not inappropriate to offer here a bit of the splendor, as well. Christina Murphy, of the Norfolk Eagles Forum, has conveyed to us her excitement in personally capturing four wonderful videos of the Norfolk eaglets, in flight and otherwise occupied. And she wants to share those videos with our Forum. As she said in her message to me,"Check it out and share, share, share. I’m so happy I could burst!!!"

Go to this link at the Norfolk Forum, and you'll see the clips to play by clicking on the individual "frames."  http://www.norfolkeagles.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=840&sid=493d577a179305f7f79c3841171e6615
The third video from the top (eaglets flying) is especially fun when a little boy is heard to shout near the end, "I can see the eagle! I can see the eagle!"

Maybe that's the essence of our experiences as "fellow prisoners"--We can acknowledge the splendor even as we suffer the travail. It's a difficult dichotomy, and one is free to reverse that thought (splendor but travail); yet we have always in our hands and hearts the potential to join in with the child in Christina's video, "I can see the eagle! I can see the eagle!"

Thank you, Christina. We see.

Some teaser captures from Christina's videos of this past Tuesday, June 23:

     

Captures by Bville, with permission, from videos by Christina Murphy