Most pictures of Earth, Wind and Fire are from the Channel Islands Live! Eagle CAM Discussion Forum,
primarily from the photo/video thread All Eagles All the Time
There's a lot of great information there and even a thread on
How You Can Help the Channel Island Eagles and IWS
Note: The cam is solar powered and is located on an area with a lot of fog
this does sometimes have a negative effect on the quality of the pictures.
photo by eaglegal - June 6
two oldest West End eaglets
Dr. Sharpe's photo from IWS - April 2
photo by Cumbrian - April 8
(two oldest are one week old)
link to Dr. Sharpe's video
"Fostering Triplets into the West End Nest"
photo by Eagle Duo - April 9
photo by Eagle Duo - April 9
Two Brooding Moms
photo by Cumbrian - April 12
photo by Paula eaglet momster - April 14
photo by Cumbrian - April 16
(two weeks old)
photo by harpo516 - April 19
photo by Naturegal - April 21
photo by Naturegal - April 22
(oldest two are three weeks old)
photo by Eagle Duo - April 24
photo by Trishrg - April 26
photo by EagleLoverFL - April 30
(four weeks old)
photo by EagleLoverFL - May 2
photo by EagleDuo - May 4
photo by Ojai Hikers - May 5
"pinfeathers!"
photo by Naturegal - May 6
34 - 37 days (about 5 weeks)
photo by EagleLoverFL - May 8
photo by Eagle Duo - May 8
42 - 45 days (about 6 weeks)
from Eagle_Guy's video "West End Nest, May 16"
Eagle Guy reports on the IWS Forum - "May 16, Well, there was a lot of excitement on Catalina this week. A wild fire started last Thursday and came right up to the City of Avalon. Fortunately, the fire department was able to keep it from burning down the city. The wild fire burned about 4500 acres and knocked out the power to Two Harbors, where the video servers for our Catalina eagle cams are housed. We have no idea how long it will be before power is restored. We were finally able to get out in the field today to check on the nests, which were never threatened by the fire. We visited the Two Harbors, West End, Seal Rocks, and Pinnacle Rock nests and all the chicks are doing fine. Steffani will check on the Twin Rocks chicks tomorrow.
Although the web cams are not on-line, the cameras are still running because they are solar-powered. I recorded a little video at the nests to give people their eagle fix. Below are clips from the Two Harbors and West End nests. Hopefully the cameras will be on-line before banding time (last week of May), but if not, we will record the camera feeds for playback."
photo by harpo516 - May 21
(seven weeks old)
photo by Cumbrian - May 25
53 - 56 days (about 8 weeks)
photo by Dr. Sharpe during banding - May 27
link to Dr. Sharpe's video "Banding"
link to Dr. Sharpe's video "Return to the Nest"
photo by harpo516 - May 27
photo by cdn-cdn - May 30
photo by Eagle Duo - June 1
60 - 63 days (about 9 weeks)
photo by Eagle Duo - June 3
(cam has some major problems)
photo by Paula eaglet momster - June 4
(nine weeks old)
photo by EagleLoverFL - June 6
photo by Cumbrian - June 11
(ten weeks old)
photo by Cumbrian - June 13
72 - 75 days (10-1/2 weeks)
photo by EagleLoverFL - June 15
Looks to me as if they're
starting to get some height
with their wingersizes!
photo by cdn-cdn - June 18
(eleven weeks old)
78 - 81 days (11-1/2 weeks)
photo by Eagle Duo - June 21
They're very close to fledging - and the camera relay system broke June 22.
photo by Eagle Duo - June 25
"The first view we have of a fledgling returning to the nest"
K-72 fledged June 22-25 while the cam was down
(twelve weeks old)
link to Dr. Sharpe's video "West End Nest June 25" (3:22)
which shows that two of the chicks (K-72 and K-73) have fledged
photo by Paula eaglet momster - June 25
it looks as if K-73 fledged today (if not earlier while the cam was down)
picture quality marginal on July 1 but showed an empty nest -
K-74 fledged June 28-30 while the cam was down
photo by eaglegal - July 3
(thirteen weeks old)
photo by eaglegal - July 11
(fourteen weeks old)
eaglegal reports July 11: "The West End eaglets are a bit older so they’ve been flying farther and farther away from their nest areas making it more difficult for me to find them, but every now and then I get lucky and am able to spot them - it was an easy eaglet check today since they all flew back to their nest at once to share a meal."
photo by Naturegal - July 13
photo by Cumbrian - July 14
"Every time a Parent arrived at the nest with food it was mobbed!"
photo by r.e.s. - July 18
(fifteen weeks old)
(it's solar-powered, and the nest is in a very foggy spot)
photo by eaglegal - July 23
K-72 and K-74 soaring together
(sixteen weeks old)
female K-69 (Dianna) - removed as a chick from a nest at Union Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, 1986, and released from Sweetwater Hacktower, Catalina Island
female no tags (Wray) - removed as a chick from a nest in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC, 1986, and released at the same time and place as Dianna
male K-01 - hatched at the San Francisco Zoo in 2000 and fostered into the Pinnacle Rocks nest
photos by eaglegal - July 27
eaglegal reports August 1: "We’ve had quite an exciting week in Catalina. I’ve been trying to keep up with our young eagles and their travels around the island. I normally visit every nest area at least once a week but lately that strategy doesn’t work so well ‘cause the eaglets aren’t around their ‘original homes’ anymore, in fact, last Friday I went to the West End and half way down the trail to my observation point I started seeing not one, not two, not three but FOUR eaglets, flying very close to me. One of the Pinnacle chicks, K-71, had joined the triplets! My goal for that day was only to get a visual on K-73 since I hadn’t seen him the last time I was out there; instead I saw all six WE eagles plus 1. I was so excited to see them flying together, enjoying the thermals and cruising around just for fun. It’s good to know they are getting along and hopefully bonding so that they stay together and don’t leave the island. Of course that depends on many different factors, an important one being the availability of food in the island."