"Justice and Liberty" - American Bald Eagle Hatch - Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera at Davenport Works

www.alcoa.com/eaglecam - Camera
Pretty neat...
We are enjoying watching...
Hope you will...
Monte & Eileen

http://alcoa.typepad.com/davenport_eagle_nest/ - Blog

Saturday, March 26, 2011
Still One Eaglet
Still just one eaglet in the nest, but the other egg does have a hole and a crack. If not tonight, we should see the second one tomorrow. We saw lots of trips to the nest today with fish and a parent feeding the eaglet. We also had a successful switch to our solar powered generator today. As long as it continues to operate well, we should be in good shape even if the flood gets high enough in the coming weeks to cut our regular power service.


Saturday, March 26, 2011
One Eaglet Hatched So Far
As of this morning we have seen one eaglet in the nest when the parent moved off the nest for a minute. We would hope to see the other egg hatch today. We will still be doing some work today to switch to our solar power for the camera and feed. It is possible the feed will be off for a while at some point, but we hope it will not last too long.

March 25, 2011
Hatching begins?
We are seeing a lot of activity in the nest today. Also a number of online comments and a few phone calls from people telling us they have seen a hole in one of the eggs and that the parent eagle was picking at that same egg. Stay tuned. We could be close.

March 21, 2011
The Alcoa EagleCam is now streaming live 24/7. You can still see still images and earlier recorded video below. This is the second year for these two eagles in this nest and the first year for the camera. The two eggs in the nest were laid between February 17th and February 20th. We would expect them to hatch sometime after March 24th. The two adults (named Liberty and Justice) take turns tending to the eggs with Liberty spending most of the time in the nest. Feel free to click the Facebook or Tweet buttons located on this page to share the EagleCam with your friends. We look forward to seeing both eggs hatch and having the eaglets fledge later this spring. The tree with the nest is next to an Alcoa building near the Mississippi River. We do expect the river to exceed flood stage in the next couple of weeks. The power for our camera and our network feed are in that building. We are working on some alternate power solutions but if we are not successful, we may lose the camera feed for a couple of weeks. We will keep you posted.

Thursday, February 24, 2011
Big news in the last week for the eagles Justice and Liberty. On February 17th an egg appeared in the nest. Over the weekend, on Sunday, February 20th, a second egg appeared. Most of the time Liberty appears to spend almost all of her time tending to the clutch. We have seen Justice take a turn a few times to give “mom” a break. The first egg appeared when we had a warm spurt of weather with temps getting up near 60 degrees. Since then the weather is back to more normal late-winter fare. We are expecting some snow tonight and then maybe rain late in the weekend and into next week. Based on a 35-day incubation window we could expect to see eaglets sometime after March 24th.

Videos from February 2011
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Justice and Liberty weathered the blizzard of 2011 in the Quad Cities without too much trouble. Thanks to the high winds during the snow event, very little snow accumulated in the nest. As you can see in the newest videos they were back hanging out in the nest a couple of days after the storm. They have added quite a few new pieces to the nest in the past couple of weeks. They are clearly getting ready for spring. We are hoping to be able to stream the webcam live in a couple of weeks.

Videos from February 2011
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Monday, January 24, 2011
During Quad City Bald Eagle Days earlier this month we asked people to vote on names for the two eagles living at Davenport Works. Alcoa employees had selected five sets of names in December. Those five sets of names were on a ballot at Bald Eagles Days. With nearly 1,500 votes cast, the winning names are Liberty and Justice. We have now posted several new videos. The eagles have been spending more time in the nest the last couple of weeks. Most of the time they are adding sticks and other material to the nest. They seem very particular about how the sticks are woven into the structure. Sometimes they will work on one stick for a long time until they get it just the way they want it to fit.

Videos from January 2011
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Wednesday, January 05, 2011

A year ago sharp eyed Alcoa employees at Davenport Works spotted what appeared to be a bald eagle nest in a tree near a lightly used facility at the plant. Last spring the pair of eagles successfully hatched two eaglets. In November of 2010, Alcoa consulted with U.S. Fish & Wildlife to install a camera in the tree above the nest and was able to use power from that building to power the camera. Alcoa is working to get the web camera set up for on-line viewing; there are logistical issues as the site is remote from the rest of the facility. In the meantime, new images and videos will be supplied periodically. The eagles have been seen in the nest in late November and December. Some days they bring additional sticks to add to the nest and other times they use the nest as a place to eat a fish they have grabbed from the nearby Mississippi River. The eagles are not expected to stay in the nest until the spring when eggs are laid.

Until the camera is ready for public access, here are some videos of the eagles in the nest, filmed in December 2010.
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