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Johan wrote:You are right. GE can chase deer with calf (s) outside cliffs and / or other obstacles. Then there will be a lot of meat! She was out for a long time today and came back fully fed. Maybe the adult deer carcass available to her and dad.

In the photo above, I think it's a calf of Cervus elaphus.

some interesting shots 2021-06-07



and the camera was threatened by Mom, and was subjected to aggressive attack and after the attack, the camera lost the clarity of the image



you can be sure that the camera is very securely fixed

Wild Bucovina wrote:In the photo above, I think it's a calf of Cervus elaphus.

Ahh, that's right. Red deer (Cervus elaphus) are more like the North American wapiti species. They are in the same genus after all! Cervus. A larger deer. We Americans usually are taught to erroneously misapply the name "elk" to these. And proper Eurasian elk (Alces alces) are what we call "moose". We also have misapplied the term "buzzard" to New world vultures rather than properly carried it over to Buteo spp. And these we now lump in with the True Hawks. I've been correcting myself for several years now, but it isn't catching on around me. It has simply caused my fellows to lump me in with the "nerds". Ha ha. Ah well.

Roma wrote:some interesting shots 2021-06-07

Thank you for this screen shot. Five toes on a hind foot, which I can count here, definitively rules out all wild canids including foxes. Dewclaws are only present on front paws in the Canidae Family. This is a mustelid for sure. Vestigial first toes or dewclaws on the hind legs are common in large domestic dog breeds but are absent in wild canids. Sometimes you'll find them on what appears to be a gray wolflike (Canis lupus) animal, and that reveals recent admixture. A "hybrid" with a domestic dog.

The only thing still tripping me up, is that in the albeit few photographs I can find of the undersides of European pine marten feet, the paw pads are a lighter color. But. Maybe this could be subspecies related. I don't know. Can't find a picture of the hind foot of this species from Romania. Hmm.

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Interesting Prey Item of the Day!

We are back to easy identification, but no less interesting. On the menu was another roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) fawn.

Here Mom helps us compare the age and size with the last roe fawn.




Little hoof again. Not that larger hoof of the red deer (Cervus elaphus) calf, which we can still just make out in the first screenshot, far end of the nest.



No visible tail. Definitely a roe.



This kid is stuffed! S/he is lucky to have such accomplished hunters for parents. View of crop after first feeding.



View of crop after second feeding.

a few more frames of the past day 2021-06-08 - big size https://i.imgur.com/SzsXmck.jpg



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Goodnight Bucovina and all the wild ones who dwell within.

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Hi everyone, Stelian
Here are 2 scaps I took - one when parent brought prey (dad ?) and mom one hour later.
1st is the adult bringing prey and second is mom.

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here's another comparison of the likely difference between dad and mom.

I also think that the difference may be due to the rain and wet feathers of mom

here you need a professional on golden eagles to figure it out



big size pic https://i.imgur.com/cy9ohKD.jpg

Roma wrote:here's another comparison of the likely difference between dad and mom.

I also think that the difference may be due to the rain and wet feathers of mom

here you need a professional on golden eagles to figure it out



big size pic https://i.imgur.com/cy9ohKD.jpg

to me they look diferent ? I hope Stelian can tell us about it.

Roma wrote:here's another comparison of the likely difference between dad and mom.

I also think that the difference may be due to the rain and wet feathers of mom

here you need a professional on golden eagles to figure it out



big size pic https://i.imgur.com/cy9ohKD.jpg

It is Mom both times. Dad was so terrified of the camera, if we see him in the nest again, it is highly doubtful that he would completely ignore it. These birds are active as is the weather, and their feathers become disheveled. It is also molting season. Sometimes down pokes through or even bare skin in exposed.

As with the patch in the crop region in your first screenshot. In my own following screenshots, check the timestamp, this is the same bird from the later arrival showing the same characteristic.




When she turns her head to preen, it disappears.



I know this isn't enough, so I've made side screens of the right side to compare. Check the timestamps again to see that we are looking at both time periods in question. It is Mom both times.

It appears that roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) fawn has been served yet again. As I was mentioning to Johan in chat earlier, this eaglet is lucky hatching coincided so well with fawning.



Not the best quality screenshot, but do compare the hoof lying in the nest from yesterday's fawn. Dimensions are a match.



The fawn must have been captured lying in some long, dry grass.



Whilst marten will get one by. Deer is for delicious.

more frames of the past day 2021-06-09 - big size pic https://i.imgur.com/STX6lBx.jpg

Roma wrote:more frames of the past day 2021-06-09

S/he got a pretty good soaking in that rain today, didn't s/he. As per the last shot. Fluffed up again swift, though. Alls well.

One more from me too. Can't resist, too sweet.



Goodnight once more, wild dwellers of Bucovina.

Found this handy aging chart. We don't need it in this case, but maybe it will be of use to someone in the future.

Source: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=83955&inline
There are pictures to go along with the Weeks within the final pages of this document.



Oops, forgot. Apologies.
Straight text for translating needs:

AGING NESTLING GOLDEN EAGLES

Young golden eagles are relatively easy to age (in weeks) based on plumage characteristics. The following descriptions are based on Sumner (1929a and 1929b), Hoechlin (1976), Watson (1997), and photographs of known age young taken in central California by S.K. Carnie (1950s) and D.E. Driscoll (1990s).

Eggs: Off-white to cream colored, with variable amounts of reddish-brown splotching and stippling. Egg size varies, but averages 74mm x 58mm.
Incubation 45 day incubation period.
0-1 Week: Eaglets are covered with an off-white “pre-pennae” down.
2 Weeks: Snow-white “pre-plumulae” down replaces off-white “pre-pennae” down.
3 Weeks: Eaglets covered with snow-white down. Flight feathers begin erupting from their sheaths.
4 Weeks: Primaries and secondaries emerge 8-12cm from their sheaths. Rectrices emerge 5-8cm from their sheaths. Small feathers begin emerging from the snow-white down on the body.
5 Weeks: Contour feathers erupted on dorsal surface of wings and upper back. Head, throat, and lower back are still snow-white down.
6 Weeks: Eaglet’s body covered with dark contour feathers. Patches of down show through in some areas of body. Head is still white down.
7 Weeks: Body is covered in dark contour feathers and dark feathers appear in the head. Some white down is still visible in the head, especially in a line along the center of the crown.
8 Weeks: Head is mostly dark, although some down tufts may show through. A ring of white down may be apparent at the base of the neck.
9 Weeks: Eaglet’s body and head are completely dark. White band on the tail is conspicuous.
10 Weeks: Primaries, secondaries, and rectrices are still growing longer. Normal age of fledging (first flight) from nest.

Interesting Prey Item of the Day.

Today we are eating crow, but hopefully not because any previous identifications were incorrect. In case that is lost in translation, "eating crow" is a colloquial idiom in some English-speaking countries for having to admit to one's mistakes upon being proven wrong. Jokes. :>

We have here a hooded crow (Corvus cornix). Many of the body feathers have been plucked, and the feather base of common ravens (Corvus corax) also happen to be a light gray, but we can clearly tell this is a crow by size alone, beak and body.





Further, we now have more evidence, based on the scale of the feet, that a previous corvid brought to the nest was also likely a hooded crow.

June 1st.



June 10th.



June 2nd (same bird as from June 1st).



June 10th. Not a great screenshot, but compare the hallux or big toe to the eaglet's beak. The hallux is the backward-facing toe on both a crow's and an eagle's foot. Mind you the eaglet has grown a sliver as well, but it is all within range.

at 11:54 you can see for 1 minute both the woman and the male in flight.

Hello and Happy Friday! The species determination on the prey at 12:01 - I mean it was a European pine marten (Martes martes). It had the typical marten spot under its neck. (Yellow/white spot.)

First, the exciting experience of Mother and Father both circling about the eyrie. The first closest approach, when a parent alighted upon the nest tree above the young eaglet, was probably Mom. We can see a larger light smudge of feathering in her left wing that we later get another decent view of when she brings home the pine marten. These are not reliable markers for the long term, but today we saw this patterning in the course of five minutes.




And finally Papa. We know this is Dear Ol' Dad, because Mom appears at what would be an impossibly instant moment in space and time, just after he disappears from view. We can see that pops is growing in a new remex in his right wing. I know with ravens (Corvus corax) that a single primary feather can take around four weeks to grow in. This one has made some progress, so again a fairly temporary marker.