Video: Mad Dad
(See Bel's Nest Log and Gena Flanigen's Photos Below)
EARLY
MORNING: M gets up 12:54:45am; M rouses & flaps wings to shake of rain
12:55:02, M rouses again 12:56:11 then fluff bole; M rolls eggs & then
faceplants as she shimmies down on eggs 12:57:54; M gets up again to
roll-n-fluff 1:00:03am; M settles back down 1:01:15am; per TNTalons-M up
02:13:56; M flaps wings to shake off rain, rouses, flaps some more, has a PS,
& flaps again 02:14:02-02:14:58; M rolls eggs & digs in bole 02:15:31;
M starts to shimmy down 02:16:57, but decides to roll eggs again 02:17:10; M
settles down on eggs 02:17:24; M hunkers down as the rain really pours
02:26:00-04:20:00; M up, she rouses, flaps, rolls eggs, digs in bole, rolls
eggs & pecks some more, shimmies down 04:20:40-04:23:01; M up, rouses,
pecks & rolls, shimmies down 04:46:19- 04:48:43am. MORNING:
a very wet M calls to D 7:31:54am; M gets up very wet and left wonky leg very
stiff 07:44:28; M hobbles over to LYB 07:45:03; S/C#1- M leaps onto LYB
07:45:08; M out LYB 07:45:14; D in BD 07:45:25; D rolls, and shimmies onto eggs
07:45:56. AFTERNOON: Per Jani-Intruder lands below nest Cam 2 - 13:29:13; Per
BEL-Juvie intruder tries to come to nest Cam1-2:43:17 (Cam2-14:40:43) & D
fends it off; D still riled up, agressively flaps wings 2:43:29 & 2:43:34
2:43:46; D heads back to eggs 2:43:57 & shimmies down on them 2:44:05;
Intruder lands on back-right branch 3:06:06pm & D sounds the alarm; M in BD
w/fluff 3:22:30; D hops off eggs & goes after intruder 3:22:31. EVENING: M
starts squeeeing as she sees Dad 6:23:25pm; D in BD w/food (partial squirrel?)
6:23:28; M gets up 6:23:31; M grabs food 6:23:41; D out BD 6:24:13pm; M
attempts to eat pelt, 6:25:30; M tries to swallow pelt again 6:26:05; after
eating some pieces, M gulps down pelt 6:26:49; after dinner, M does a little
egg rolling & nest fluffing 6:28:09pm then settles down on eggs. Photographs by Gena Flanigen.
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