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Originally Posted by Alffe
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I thought the same thing Mrs.D but these folks are the professionals...maybe it's easier and less tramatic for the parents to do it when they are smaller.
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Yeah... they screwed it up!
The second eaglet was too small for the band. I watched when they put them all back in the nest, and a little while later, one of the eaglets jumped up and flapped his wings... weird.
Next thing I knew.... I was multitasking with my gardening, here, and there, they called Nate the tree climber to come back and REMOVE the bands from the nest which had come off the eaglet! I guess they thought they might eat them!
The smallest eaglet wasn't even banded.
Soooooo. next month they will do it all again. Two of them to be banded and the largest one to get the mobile transmitter.
They were just too young and too small for this process.
Here is a link to show the close up photos of the banding:
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Get aload of those spectators behind the barricades!
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