Altazena, the video I posted was from 5-27-14. It was a young starling who hopped out of pipe and into the nest with the E's. I'm not sure how many starlings remain. The look on the E's faces was priceless. You could see the wheels turning. Starling parents need to teach little ones how to hop LEFT, not right.
RTH 6-6-14.png - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte) One has "fledged" and hung on the side of Weil Hall for a while, then got it self up on that ledge it's hanging onto. This view is from Karel's cam.
RTH E2 on Weil wings spread.png - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte) This is E2, presumed a male. He kept his wings open for a while, perhaps stretching tired muscles.
Karel gives us our first look this beautiful Sunday Morning at E2 who is comfortably perched in the parking lot tree near the nest waiting for his breakfast. Thank you so much Karel & BOGette
In this video, which occurs right after the video above where E2 returns to the nest, something happens just after 1:30. The description implies that E2 attacks Big Red, but E1 is behind her and it looks like perhaps she did something. What really happened here? What am I missing?
RTH 6-12.png - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte) This is what I've figured out. BR was feeding E2 when E1 behind her loses balance slightly and flaps wings. BR turns to look back and E2 puts talons on her. See this picture. This all happened very quickly. RTH 6-12 b.png - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte) I'm not sure how BR "reprimands" E2 exacatly, but a split second later she is towering above and in the following few seconds seems clearly upset.
alta you got me curious so I took the clip from ncaerie's video and put it in movie maker so I could watch it in slow motion. I'm still not exactly sure what happened but I think maybe you're right about E2 losing it's balance or maybe just lunged toward Big Red to grab a bit of food from her. Either way, I think it startled Big Red and that caused her to react. ? Maybe ? LOL! Big Red is so beautiful in slow motion throwing her wings out I just had to go ahead and publish it to Youtube so I could share. The 3 little hawks are so funny watching her reaction. I can almost hear them say, "Dadgum Mom! Get a grip." Their faces are priceless.
Quote: Hiker wrote in post #52Great video, patti... it looks like they all kind of freaked each other out!! Then Mom gave them all the stink-eye and said.... "That wasn't funny!!"
I was returning home from seeing these lovely hawks at their home and meeting Alta in person, when my husband and I decided to have a lunch/picnic at Carolina Raptor Center. (I love that place.) I walked in and Dr. Scott came in. I did not miss the opportunity to speak to him. I told him about E3's injury and how I loved his program Raptor-Med. (If you haven't discovered it, you should look it up.) I also took the opportunity to speak to him about BR and E2 and get his opinion. , I explained the situation with BR and E2. He said BR knew exactly where each of those chicks were and she would not have been startled by getting hit by a wing from E1. He said E2's talon would not have startled BR or hurt her. He said when BR went back with spread wings, she was making herself as large as possible. And it was a threatening position and was a reprimand of E2. He said they will continue to work with the E's and do things like that as training.
The day that E3 was injured, June 15, Karel was streaming. I finally decided to revisit the video since I hadn’t had a heart to watch it through until now. Here’s a link to it. http://new.livestream.com/karelsedlacek/events/3100647 Scroll down to the first clip. Here are my notes on what happened to E3 that we can see on cam. 2:32:07 E3 crawls under the glass flap, which is not moving. 2:35:43 E3 hanging out under there. 2:37:44 The flap starts to move down very slowly. 2:38:59 Just a glimpse of E3. While Karel has the stream looking at both parents on the throne, he says, “So apparently Mom and Dad think things are OK. (pause) And in general I would say things are OK. Now… (calling out) where did E3 go?” E3 squished.png - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte) 2:41:52 Karel pans by E3 (see scap), doesn’t see him, then he does, and leaves the cam pointed to the right of him so we can see the following. 2:42:24 The window starts to slowly open. E3 laying there.png - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte) 2:47:31 Karel quickly pans by E3 (see scap) and points cam at the throne. 2:59:54 Bogette signs off, clearly upset. How long did E3 lie there, not moving, making people think he was dead? I heard 20 minutes, so he must have revived shortly after the stream was ended.
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Great video, patti... it looks like they all kind of freaked each other out!! 
Then Mom gave them all the stink-eye and said.... "That wasn't funny!!"
