Danish WTE web camera 2015-2018

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APR. 30.

Male has delivered a prey in the morning and takes rest. Soon after this scap it took off.

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Did the eagles eat the third unhatched egg?

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The unhatched egg disappeard some days after hatch 2. I think it broke and went down into the straw in the nest bowl.

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MAY 2.

It is ok so far.

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MAY 3.

Cold nights. And the fat chicks are not covered during the night.
During daytime the Male tries to give shadow to one of the chicks in the hot sun.

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MAY 7.

Some screen prints from the last days

First a video by DOF. Male brings a Garfish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJvTQa5Lr8

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MAY 9.

A video by DOF of the Male who brings a Gosling. 8/5-22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlvuoAnsBxY


A foto from yesterday and this morning, where the Male is taking off from the Eastern resting tree towards the sea.

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MAY 10.

Gosling for breakfast



Finally the rain came



Male is taking night roost next to the nest

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MAY. 12.

08.43 Male in with a Garfish. Female will feed the chicks.

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MAY 13.

Another Garfish

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May 18.

First night without adult eagle in the nest.



Romme from 2020 left the coasts of Germany on the 25. of April and made a 4 hours travel back to Denmark.
Romme knows the landscape and goes north and south on the east side of its home range.
Romme does not fly to the nest area or into the territory where it was raised.

Rommes travel in april 2022




Added on 21/5-22:

Rommes travel from the 16. of May until the 18. of May
It is close to the nest. But that is it. Romme knows its surroundings well now.



Ole Friis Larsen DOF about young eagles and their memories and flying around in the suroundings and the nest, where they were raised:

'Romme' and the nest
Written by Ole Friis Larsen on 21 May 2022 at 17.06
Coloring rings and GPS transmitters on Sea Eagles show that the young eagles can roam far and wide and return to the nesting area where they grew up, but it is probably more about food than about trips home to the 'family'.

The American Cornell University, which is responsible for very serious research in birds, writes in an article that only a few species of very social birds - for example crows and cranes - can recognize each other after a year of separation.

The adult / adult Sea Eagles form pairs for life and can of course easily recognize each other, but they also see each other daily throughout the year.

'Romme' can probably easily recognize the area he grew up in and has learned to fly in, but he hardly thinks of the nest as his 'childhood home' if he sees it again.

There are examples of young eagles being allowed to visit nests with chicks, and we once assumed that it was probably earlier chicks from the nest, but just reading the color rings has shown that it can also be a complete stranger. young eagle that has nothing to do with either the nest or the adult / adult birds on the nest.

The parent birds can thus probably not distinguish between their own and others' young after a while.

It is common for larger birds such as geese and cranes to stay together in family flocks throughout the winter, but when the parent birds are about to breed again, last year's young are thrown out, and in most of the species the birds will not be able to recognize each other after a while. as a family, but only as fellow species.

'Romme' and his parents will therefore probably now just experience each other as other individuals of the same species.

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MAY 20.

Last night F was sitting next to the nest doing the evening preening.



The chicks are now able to stand in the upright position.



Some greenery was brought and caught the interest of the chicks.

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MAY 23.

The aglets are now trying to eat themselves. And with succes.



Wingflap is ongoing now

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MAY 27.

Male brings a Coot and the f starts feeding

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MAY 28.

The eaglets were ringed today. It was 2 Females.
The adults stayed away from the nest the rest of the day.



Ole Friis Larsens tells about the ringing:'

Two sisters with rings on
Written by Ole Friis Larsen on 28 May 2022 at 15.53
The two eaglets are both females.

They have each been given two rings - one on each leg. One is a colored ring with 'light orange' over 'white', which covers glossy aluminum without color. It is the so-called national ring with special colors for Danish eagles. Other countries have different color combinations in an international system. The other ring is black with white numbers. Previously, the ring was also two-tone with different colors for each year, but for the past 10 years it has been black - and easier to read on, for example, pictures.

The youngest and smallest of the eagles weighed the most.

The oldest of the cubs now has a two-colored ring with the number H101 and a black ring with the number D101. It weighed 4,465 kilos at the ring marking.

The youngest youngster has a two-colored ring with the number H102 and a black ring with the number D102. It weighed 4,610 kilos.

Part of the weight is due to the fact that the eaglets had just been fed well just before the ringing, as we could see on this morning's streaming, and both had stuffed inns.

Kim Skelmose also states - on the way to another ringing - that both pups have a lot of stress streaks on the feathers. These are the ones we have hitherto called hunger streaks, but it is more correct to call them stress streaks, so we will do so in the future because they are not only due to lack of food, but can also occur as a result of stress over disturbances. . Kim believes the stripes fit well with a period of much unrest over crows in the area.

The nest has become much larger since last year. It is now about 2.5 times 3 meters and 1.5 meters high.

The ringing went well and lasted only five quarters of an hour - partly because it is possible to drive an electric lift all the way to the nest.

Kim searched for the third egg but did not find it, even though he was rummaging deep in the nest.

We did not get to talk about the parent birds, but they tend to fly restlessly and screaming around the area while the ringing is going on. The ringing is of course a violent disturbance, but it usually tends to calm down over the eagles when it is over.

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JUNE 2.

Garfish brought in.
The eaglet eats the fish completely itself now.

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JUNE 6.

13.09 An Eel was brought by Male.
D101 got it and tried to swallowe it without success.
D102 picked the Eel. Eats the head of the Eel and swallows the rest.

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

Kim Skelmose has put up some photos from the ringing of the eaglets on May 28.

https://www.facebook.com/KimSkelmose/po ... 5775499487

5 kids from The Eagles Club joined the ringing



Touching a WTE.



A lift was used to get to the nest.
Adult eagle is watching from above

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JUNE 7.

12.57 A Garfish as brought by the Male. 101 got it and starts eating itself.




13.07 The male brought an Eel.

102 got it and tried to eat it.
101 left half of the Garfish and took the Eel from 102.
102 went to the half of the Garfish.
Both eaglets eat.
Male left the nest.

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Male in with an Eel.
D102 got it and had a hard job to eat half of it before it got tired and left the rest to D101.



In the evening an old head of a Garfish was found and eaten by 101

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JUNE 9.

06.45 Male in with an Eel.
102 got it and managed to eat the head.
After some hard work 102 swallowed the rest of the Eel with big difficulty.



06.56 Male in with a young Rabbit.
D101 got it and ate it