Speaker 1: Right now, let's say good morning to Sandy Steers with
Speaker 1: friends of Big Bear Valley.
Speaker 2: Sandy, we need an eaglet update.
Speaker 3: Okay, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 1: So tell us how the kids are growing. Tell us
Speaker 1: the latest on on how they're doing.
Speaker 3: Well. They're doing great. They're both eating very well, getting
Speaker 3: over stuffed if anything. And the big one is growing
Speaker 3: faster than the little one, so that's interesting to watch.
Speaker 3: And they both are now have their clown feet where
Speaker 3: they grow faster. Their feet grow faster than the rest
Speaker 3: of them, and so they are very big when they're
Speaker 3: trying to waddle around the nest.
Speaker 1: So you know, I remember seeing this from years past
Speaker 1: that all of a sudden, you go, my goodness, look
Speaker 1: at those feet when they're born. Are they that bright
Speaker 1: yellowy orange color or does that happen as they start growing.
Speaker 3: That happens is they're they're a little bit yellow, but
Speaker 3: that bright color gets as they start growing.
Speaker 2: And they're getting up and walking around a lot more.
Speaker 3: I'm noticing they are. And yes, yes, they're moving all
Speaker 3: over the nest and sometimes falling down in between going
Speaker 3: from one place to another. And they're also winger sizing.
Speaker 3: They both are stretching their little wings out and slapping
Speaker 3: up and down at least as much as they can,
Speaker 3: which sometimes is only a flap or two, and.
Speaker 2: You call it winger sizing.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think that it's fun to watch them as
Speaker 1: they try to use their wings to balance too.
Speaker 3: They do, yes, and sometimes bash each other with their
Speaker 3: wings as they're trying to just hold themselves up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, Sandy, one of the things that we've talked about before,
Speaker 1: the people like we're freaking out about it is the
Speaker 1: thing that they do called bonking, where they it's a
Speaker 1: dominance thing and like a establishing a pecking order.
Speaker 2: It's very natural.
Speaker 1: But when you first see it, you go, oh, my goodness,
Speaker 1: are they killing each other?
Speaker 2: But they're not.
Speaker 3: They're not at all. No, they are trying to establish
Speaker 3: which one is in charge basically, and the actually the
Speaker 3: little one is the one that keeps instigating those things
Speaker 3: and trying to prove well, I'm sure I'm big enough now,
Speaker 3: and then it bows over and says, no, I guess
Speaker 3: that didn't work.
Speaker 1: Yes, but he's see, that's why we named him Rocky
Speaker 1: because he's a little fighter.
Speaker 2: We love that about it.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: And then how big are they because we've noticed there's
Speaker 1: not nearly as much room in the nest anymore.
Speaker 3: They're not quite a foot high. I mean they're probably
Speaker 3: eight or nine inches, so.
Speaker 2: They're like the size of a small chicken at this point.
Speaker 1: Yes, wow, it gets it's deceptive when you're looking at
Speaker 1: the at the nest. And then speaking of watching, which
Speaker 1: I do kind of obsessive lane, yesterday when I looked,
Speaker 1: there were like sixty fifty sixty thousand people. There's twenty
Speaker 1: thousand people watching right now. We know that in the
Speaker 1: last storm there was some issues with the camera, with
Speaker 1: the sound and the infrared, and I'm guessing that can't
Speaker 1: be fixed until probably until later this year.
Speaker 3: Well that's possible. We're looking at to see if there's
Speaker 3: anything on the like the software mechanisms inside that we
Speaker 3: might be able to do. But if it's the hardware,
Speaker 3: then no, we can't do anything with it.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I do I miss hearing them chirping, although I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily miss the cries of Jackie in shadow because they
Speaker 1: can be kind of piercing.
Speaker 3: So yes, that's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing that we've noticed is that
Speaker 1: the eagles fly away and leave the kids behind a
Speaker 1: lot more.
Speaker 2: And that's normal.
Speaker 3: That's okay, that's totally normal. What they're doing is allowing
Speaker 3: the chicks to get their independence and to develop. And
Speaker 3: so the chicks when they're left alone by the parents,
Speaker 3: will you know, soon start pecking at the food themselves
Speaker 3: and learning to eat. And it gives them room to
Speaker 3: you know, exercise their wings and move around the nest.
Speaker 3: And so they're just letting them develop. But they are nearby.
Speaker 3: Jack and each headar are always nearby, okay.
Speaker 2: And then one other thing.
Speaker 1: It's a sad thing, but it was, I mean, it
Speaker 1: was beautiful, sad strange when we lost the other the eaglet,
Speaker 1: which didn't make it through that last snowstorm and we
Speaker 1: had like two feet of snow. First of all, it
Speaker 1: was a shadow who removed him from the nest.
Speaker 3: Bowl, Yes it was.
Speaker 2: And then and then.
Speaker 1: Jackie picked him up and flew off with him, like said,
Speaker 1: I can't have him in the nest anymore.
Speaker 3: Right, It's kind of like what I figured out is
Speaker 3: kind of like their way of bearing it so that
Speaker 3: it's and actually we saw Jackie from a security camera.
Speaker 3: We saw her drop the chick into the forest like
Speaker 3: she was, I mean, it's letting it.
Speaker 1: Yes, Why are we so obsessed with this? I know
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with Sandy. Why do you think people are
Speaker 1: so obsessed with watching these guys.
Speaker 3: Because we don't get to see nature this close up
Speaker 3: and to see how much it's like us, how much
Speaker 3: we are nature, and to see the behaviors and the
Speaker 3: personalities that Jackie and Shadow have individual personalities. They're not
Speaker 3: just these things out there they are they have their
Speaker 3: own unique way of doing things. Each both of them
Speaker 3: are different than each other, and I think people are
Speaker 3: fascinated to find out they're all individuals out there and
Speaker 3: they have emotions and they have things and living their
Speaker 3: lives independently like we do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is beautiful to watch. I love it.
Speaker 1: And you can watch any old time because that camera's
Speaker 1: going twenty four to seven. Friends of Big Bear Valley
Speaker 1: is the website, and again we always want to mention
Speaker 1: Sandy that you guys are a nonprofit organization and so
Speaker 1: if anyone wants to help you out a little bit,
Speaker 1: make a donation, where do they go?
Speaker 3: Go to the website Friends of Big Bear Valley dot org.
Speaker 1: We couldn't be watching them, I couldn't be watching our
Speaker 1: eglitz without you, so against Sandy Steers with friends of
Speaker 1: Big Bear Valley. We always love talking to you and
Speaker 1: hearing how the eaglits are doing. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: the update.
Speaker 3: Thank you all right, take care,