Sauces - Santa Cruz Island - Seasons 2018-2021

[jwin36]

You are welcome, Kitcat. I did finally watch it and kept saying, oh, poor baby, to myself. : She looked very scared. I am now glad that they don't show the drop to the ground on the cam. I am not good with heights anymore. The older I get the more nauseous it makes me.
Dr. Sharpe, Nate and that whole team are an amazing group of people. So glad for all their hard work and dedication.

[jwin36]

Looks like Mom on the nest with our little lady.

Pleasant morning on the island.

[jwin36]

Hi everyone,
Thanks to the zoomer! Nice closeup of the adult. I don't know which.

Mom or Dad

Also a very nice shot of our little lady.

Known as Saucette on chat

Looks like a breezy day.

[jwin36]

Been a while, Hi, everyone.
6:19 am local

watching

6:24 am local

Looks like Dad but not sure

She is getting all grown up.

[elainemyrkle]

It's benn awhile since I've checked in on the Fraser Cam. Just a short video I took. They all appear to be doing so well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnCsZq0 ... e=youtu.be

[jwin36]

Finally a close up I caught!
She is so cute. She just leaped on the fish and started eating.
1:40 pm local

So adorable

[jwin36]

Approx 11:30 am local
On your mark, and get set!

And GO! Beautiful takeoff!

So glad to see this. She was so deliberate in her actions, she knew what she had to do. Been waiting , it seems, forever.
Fly high and free little one! The sky is yours!

[Kitcat11848]

Hi jwin. So beautiful and so different from last season. She is a beautiful eaglet and I wish her well. Hopefully she’ll be home tonight.

[jwin36]

This is so sweet. She must be exhausted. Sleeping at 3:36 in the afternoon. I haven't seen her too many times since she left. I'll bet she has some new friends. Before she fledged I was hearing lots of squeeing near the nest that wasn't her.

Sleeping

Get a load of that huge branch. I wish I had seen it brought in to the nest. It looks enormous.

[JudyB]

2020 Posts Start Here

[Philjo56France]

Do you know a little one called Saucy here ???

I'm sure, fans from this nest, you could be very interested by what Pascale found about one of your Young one called Saucy

follow the link and read all the post viewtopic.php?p=278539#p278539

[jwin36]

Just heard that first egg laid broke .

[Kitcat11848]

Hi jwin, that’s so sad. This has really been a bad year for eagle nests.

[JudyB]

Do you know a little one called Saucy here ???

I'm sure, fans from this nest, you could be very interested by what Pascale found about one of your Young one called Saucy

follow the link and read all the post viewtopic.php?p=278539#p278539

Thank you, Philjo, for bringing the update about Saucy here - wonderful to learn that she's doing well and hanging out on the islands!

[JudyB]

Monday, February 24, 2020

I read on Facebook that Dad Jax brought in a rather messy meal of seal placenta for Mom Audacity yesterday - and managed to drag it over her head. So - if you see what looks like blood on her head - it's not hers, and she got a good meal in the process!

It definitely was sad about the first egg, jwin and Marianne. Today is the likely day for her to lay her next one - and we are all keeping our fingers crossed.

[jwin36]

They just lost another egg, according to the IWS chat. Also, apparently this nest has a 72% egg failure rate. Sad that we can't do anything to help.

[IrishEyes]

They just lost another egg, according to the IWS chat. Also, apparently this nest has a 72% egg failure rate. Sad that we can't do anything to help.

So sorry to hear this Jwin to you and all who watch this nest.. I am sad for Mom and Dad

[Kitcat11848]

Jwin, so sad for this nest. The nest failure rate has got to be attributed to something in their environment. I read maybe the seal placenta are a contributing factor, something about the calcification of the shells. When is egg 3 due? Doesn’t she normally have 3? for that one.

[jwin36]

Jwin, so sad for this nest. The nest failure rate has got to be attributed to something in their environment. I read maybe the seal placenta are a contributing factor, something about the calcification of the shells. When is egg 3 due? Doesn’t she normally have 3? for that one.

I agree, Kitcat, it must be, but I wonder about the 3 from last year. They appeared to be quite normal.
I don't know about the third egg. Mom isn't spending much time on the nest that I have noticed.

[jwin36]

Another egg and it was crushed overnight. Probably no more now.

[Kitcat11848]

I saw that jwin. It is so sad. I wonder how Audacity loses so many yet had 3 to hatch last year. Read Dr. Sharpe thinks it’s something biological with Mom, not DDT related.

[JudyB]

Definitely sad news. I do hope she stops at this point since it seems unlikely to get better this season.

I think it was 2018 when they raised three chicks, and last year she lost the first two eggs but the third survived and that chick fledged successfully - and I was hoping for at least a repeat of that. But....

Must admit I hadn't thought about the seal placentas as being a factor, but it makes sense as eagles eat the smaller bones from fish and birds and other types of food, and probably get some of their calcium from those - and placentas wouldn't have bones, though I have no idea what their nutrient content is.

[Kitcat11848]

Yes Judy, you’re right. I lost a year here and 2018 was such a standout year with those 3 eaglets that I forgot about calm 2019. We can never say never but I also hope Audacity is finished for this year. I wonder if they can retrieve the shell remnants for analysis? Didn’t they do that after the 3 broken eggs in ???2017.

[Kitcat11848]

Yes Judy, you’re right. I lost a year here and 2018 was such a standout year with those 3 eaglets that I forgot about calm 2019. We can never say never but I also hope Audacity is finished for this year. I wonder if they can retrieve the shell remnants for analysis? Didn’t they do that after the 3 broken eggs in ???2017.

[jwin36]

They have another egg!


I did not know that there was a live chat on YT for this or any Explore nest.

[Kitcat11848]

good Morning jwin, tanks for the update. Did chat say when the egg was laid? this one makes it.

[IrishEyes]

They have another egg!


I did not know that there was a live chat on YT for this or any Explore nest.

WOW! thanks jwin! and wishing Mom and Dad good luck !

[jwin36]

good Morning jwin, tanks for the update. Did chat say when the egg was laid? this one makes it.

Hi, Kitcat, it was yesterday sometime. I was way past time in chat to see. If the chat stays up I can ask.

[jwin36]

Mod at chat said approximately 1:31 local time, March 7, 2020, for their fourth egg. Still Lady Hawk has video on her YT? page.

[IrishEyes]

3-7-2020 Audacity Lays Egg #4~Sauces Canyon Eagles



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7J8KeYKpXc

Thank You ... knarley123


From the video

View of the egg

Keeping good thoughts for this egg !