We have a first egg of the season, as of 2:15 Sunday afternoon!

brrrr I see it is pretty cold there...hope they can keep that egg real cosy and warm

there are two eggs at Blackwater... link above...

At one point the eagle was totally covered with snow! But they appear to be doing well.

The blog states that the eagles are well insulated and can do this.
The first egg is typically left to incubate, slowly, anyway, so all eggs hatch around the same time.

But I agree, it looks really cold, and difficult!

Here is a video posted this morning of the egg laying:


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Popularity of this eagle site is very high this year. Today I saw on their chat that about 1000 people were online with it. And at that same time, I find, I cannot view it well anymore. There is a long lag in the picture showing up today. So I had to log off all my windows, here and elsewhere in order to view the eagles.

This might happen to others here, so I am just posting this to warn you, as the number of viewers increases you might have some trouble and have to wait for the screen to load!

Yesterday there was a terrible porn/spammer on the chat, and I guess they are trying to prevent that again. So don't be surprised if the chat is temporarily closed as well. They shut it down for hours for yesterday!

We have a second egg today... laid while I was taking a big nap!

There was a hint on the chatrooms today that if you cannot see the streaming video...to open your Media Player and keep the tab open on it. But today, I am not having the same problems I had yesterday. There are just huge numbers of people watching this season, so I guess we should expect some glitches.

Warning~~~

I do not recommend signing up for the chat they have there.
Scribble (whatever its called).

Today was a warning that a link that was posted went to a Trojan giving site instead of a real cam for another bird nesting.
The other day it was filled with obscene spam...

And today it wouldn't let me log on, and when I went thru the new password thing sent to me, it sent me some other link.

The whole chat thing IMO is not well run, and dangerous to your computer!

There is a live streaming chat...ongoing there, all the time. Are you talking about a chatroom Mrs.D?? :hug:

No, it is that live chat.... I am very hinky about it NOW.

Be careful. I signed in and have an avatar and everything...but each day I see some new awful warning...and today it wouldn't accept my password, and the fix password link just took me in circles. There is nothing wrong with my password!

They have a trojan warning on there this afternoon!

We have a 3rd egg today, laid around noon. In this weather!
The low predicted tonight for Norfolk is 20 deg F.

One has to wonder at these birds who can deal with this blizzard and cold temps and still remain vital.

The Blackwater cam, is pretty dismal too...but the eagles there are doing well also. They typically only lay 2 eggs there.