This Is Crazy Cool

[nannyde]

Mama's feeding right now

[nannyde]

They are showing the surrounding area........ the farm house and the river.

Iowa is so beautiful

[nannyde]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N50wZxRk-ds

Mama feeding babies.

[Stacy214]

What do you think she's feeding the babies? Rabbit or bird? bleh

[MyAngels]

We just got to watch mom (I think) feeding the babies live. The kids were so excited!

[SilverSabre25]

Um, is that a dead rat in the nest?!?! The brown fuzzy thing with the rodent-like mouth?

[sahm2three]

Um, is that a dead rat in the nest?!?! The brown fuzzy thing with the rodent-like mouth?

My dck's were asking me the same thing. It looks like a bird of some kind. Look at its feet!

[SilverSabre25]

My dck's were asking me the same thing. It looks like a bird of some kind. Look at its feet!

I was also wondering if it's a bat...the black stuff under the critter looks like it might be a bat wing.

[MyAngels]

Um, is that a dead rat in the nest?!?! The brown fuzzy thing with the rodent-like mouth?

My guess is that it's a muskrat, at least that's what it looks like.

[SilverSabre25]

My guess is that it's a muskrat, at least that's what it looks like.

ahhh, muskrat that's a good possibility. DH pointed out that it's a good deal bigger than a rat. Unless it's an ROUS (). I had forgotten to figure in the sheer size of the eagles.

[nannyde]

Um, is that a dead rat in the nest?!?! The brown fuzzy thing with the rodent-like mouth?

I don't know.

Could it be a beaver?

[nannyde]

ahhh, muskrat that's a good possibility. DH pointed out that it's a good deal bigger than a rat. Unless it's an ROUS (). I had forgotten to figure in the sheer size of the eagles.

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Loved the Princess Bride. I was Chris Sarandon's (Prince Humperdink) nanny for a summer in the mid eighties!!!!

[nannyde]

She's feeding them now the ROUS.

[MyAngels]

I didn't get a chance to watch much yesterday, but this morning I see that eaglet #3 was born sometime yesterday.

[Lilbutterflie]

Did anyone catch the drama b/w Mom and Dad eagle yesterday? I tuned in about 2:30 in the afternoon CT yesterday and Dad was sitting on the nest. He seemed very agitated and looking all around with his feathers ruffled up. He started calling all around (by turning his neck in all directions). After a couple minutes, he would stop; wait a couple minutes and start calling again. I tuned in to the facebook page and everyone was worried b/c Mom eagle had left the nest early in the morning and had not returned. That's why Dad eagle was so agitated. Everyone was worried something may have happened to Mom eagle, and poor Dad eagle b/c he's already lost the mate with whom he'd built the nest with in 2007.

Anyway, after a few rounds of calling, you could see that Dad eagle saw something and he ruffled his feathers and let out some screeches. Then he flew away from the nest!! Leaving the two babies and the egg unprotected. You hear off in the distance some eagle screeches, and then about two minutes later, Mom eagle returns to the nest. LMAO! He was PISSED at her for being gone so long! He flew up to her, chewed her out, and she promptly returned to the babies as he flew off! How funny it was. And how closely it resembles some of our own spousal situations!