Don't Mess With Dad!

K01 is watching overhead intently and all of a sudden jumps up flapping and calling at something too close to his nest/eggs.....well, what he thinks are his & his mate's eggs. They're actually artificial eggs put there to keep the eagles interested while the IWS carefully incubates and hatches their real eggs in their 'nursery'. Because of DDT pollution, the shells of their eggs are to think to withstand normal incubation. Watch for a huge shadow behind the nest about 45 seconds into the video. Is that Wray coming to chase off whatever has K01 so upset? Things get much calmer after that.

These eagles are part of the ongoing restoration project by IWS. You can read about the struggle to reintroduce America's symbol, the Bald Eagle, to the Channel Islands as well as watch this miracle of nature via live eagle-cam by going to http://www.iws.org and clicking first on 'interactive' and then choosing one of the nests to view on Catalina Island and Santa Cruz Island or go to: http://z7.invisionfree.com/CHIL_EagleCAM/index.php?act=idx

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Pets & Animals

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• bald_eagle
• eagle
• birds
• nests
• K01
• Wray
• eggs
• incubating
• wildlife