she has weathered such storms before - but the sad thing is that the eggs are likely not viable having gone beyond normal hatch parameters. we’ll see if her survival instincts lead her off the nest.
The bird is alive and breathing. It knows how to stay warm.
Eagles do that in Alaska all the time. There is.even a natjre documentary on Netfix showing them doing this.
What a beautiful bird! I hope the eggs will remain viable.
I’ll never forget running across a field trying to stop a hay mower that was about to run over a pheasant and her nest. She never budged from staying on that nest to protect her young.
Now women celebrate murdering theirs.
Just curious, does the 100k dead in the Ukraine war bother you in your soul?
Nature isn’t cruel it is simply completely disinterested.
Your soul is bothered by a bird nesting in the snow and I need to get a life. Sure.
Make that 7A: 0-5 degrees F.
Watching the execution of Darwinian law is not for the squeamish.
Nature is harsh but bothers your soul? A great many animals in nature are born in spring, this has gone on for a long time and is part of their cycles.
I had to look up where this is because it looks like 3 or 4 inches of snow.
All the bald eagles are nesting now in Pennsylvania. They nest in late winter so sitting on snow covered nests is common for this species.
If it makes you feel a bit better.....
We had a dove who made her nest every spring in the hanging basket on the front porch. One spring there was a nasty, 3 day storm which included some rain, but mostly freezing rain, ice and snow, along with awful winds. She sat there through it all. I wondered if she had died, but she hadn’t. She just hunkered down for the three days and at the end of it seemed perfectly fine, and the eggs hatched a little while later.
It was brutal to watch, but I had to let nature take its course.
Bird probably doesn’t care for the annoying camera.
Sunshine thieves never sleep. The light keeps them awake, needing to spread any darkness they can dredge up, just in case somebody might not be aware of a negative wave.
For those unaware:
Moriarty: February 28, 1931 – May 29, 2021
As avital2 said, big Bear is ski country, I have slept in sub-zero there, their record is 25 below zero in 1979
The Eagle is dealing with conditions that are not very unusual for it.
This is a reminder of why civilization is changing, we are affected because now we can see the normal and the routine and it seems magnified and brutal and as though we should do something about it.
Frequently I see a horrible story about a person doing something terrible that indicates the collapse of humanity and then I check where, and it is in some distant state or on the other side of the world and I think good gosh, we fill our days with these stories that in the past we would never have heard about.
There was a snippet on the local news channel that explained bald eagles have hundreds of feathers and under each one is an air pocket that their body temperature warms up. The combination keeps them warm. The bird will be okay.
Ummm, birds nesting have been dealing with weather for a LOOOONNGG time...