West End, Catalina Island, CA
hatched April 15 and 18
both fledged July 11
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Additional info and pictures from the Maine Bald Eagle Cam Discussion Forum's
thread on the West End Nest Eagle Cam
and the Hancock Wildlife Channel's
thread on West End, Santa Catalina Bald Eagle Cam
 

This nest, established in 1991, is unusual in that it has three adults. The females Dianna (K69 - wing tag on each wing) and Wray (no wing tags,but has a silver leg band) were brought from nests in British Columbia as chicks in 1986 and released together from the Sweetwater Hacktower on Catalina Island. Male K01 (sometimes called "Superman") was hatched at the San Francisco Zoo in 2000 and fostered into the Pinnacle Rock Nest; he replaced the previous male who disappeared before the 2006 nesting season at an age of 25. 18 chicks have fledged from this nest since 1991. Three of the five eggs removed for incubation in 2007 hatched, and the trio successfully raised female K72 ("Earth") and males K73 ("Wind") and K74 ("Fire"). Catalina cams are streaming video, but can only handle 10 viewers at a time and are timed to shut off after 10 minutes of viewing; there's also an option to watch still pictures updating at 5 second or 20 second intervals if traffic at the site is heavy. The cams are solar powered, so the picture may be less than optimal in bad weather.

2008 Update: As of mid-March, Dianna is rarely seen around the nest and there is speculation she may be hoping to form a pair with an unattached male. According to Dr. Sharpe of IWS, Wray and the original male were a pair for a year before Dianna joined them, so she was the junior member of the trio.

eaglegal's photo - July 6, 2006

Based on past experience, look for eggs in late February and early March, chicks in early April, and fledging from mid-June to early July.

eaglegal's photo - April 15, 2008
(from the April 16 Catalina Update on the IWS Bald Eagle Forum)

eaglegal: "On Sunday afternoon it had externally pipped at the wrong end of the egg and was placed in the hatching unit. Since it had skipped the internal pipping and it was malpositioned, we knew it was going to be a while for it to hatch and that it would most likely need assistance. Pete tried to encourage the chick to rotate towards the right direction but it had gotten stuck on the internal egg membrane so it wasn’t able to keep turning. Pete had to assist several times during this process and last night it was finally out of the egg, 54 hours after it made a hole on the egg."

photos from eaglegal's video "Manual Hatching - West End Chick" - April 15, 2008
(from the April 16 Catalina Update on the IWS Bald Eagle Forum)

eaglegal's photos - April 15, 2008
(from the April 16 Catalina Update on the IWS Bald Eagle Forum)

"After it hatched we put some antibiotic ointment on the umbilicus area"

Lori's photos - April 18, 2008
THERE IS A CHICK IN THE WEST END NEST!!!!!!!!!!

JudyB: OK - That is absolutely the most incredible thing I can imagine! They could have laid another egg after Dr. Sharpe collected the eggs - the eggs were younger (or less developed) than he'd expected, so maybe they didn't start laying as soon as he'd thought. But there's only a 5% chance any West End egg could hatch - they're just badly compromised by the chemical contamination. The chance that there was one more egg laid - and it hatched - wow!

JudyB's photos - April 24, 2008
"The eaglets are out of the nest bowl and on the prowl; younger one is only 6 days old!"

 
JudyB's photos - May 16, 2008
(younger one is four weeks old)

Some folks on the CHIL forum were wondering why Surprise, the naturally hatched chick, seemed lighter in color than the incubator chick, and were wondering if diet played a role. Here's Dr. Sharpe's answer: "It could be a diet difference. I've never had a natural hatch and artificially incubated chick in the same nest for comparison. The chick we hatched was fed only quail, while the naturally hatched chick likely received mostly fish the first few days."

The older chick does get its second, darker coat of down sooner and will begin getting little black feathers sooner - as you can see in today's pictures - but the color difference seemed noticeable at times when that wouldn't be a factor.