“Fededy Watch” begins for Big Bear's famous Weißkopfseaglets

Sunny and Gizmo, Jackie and Shadows almost grown Weißkopfseaglets were able to take their first flight from the nest in Big Bear every day.

“Fledge Watch” officially starts on Tuesday, so Friends of Big Bear ValleyThe non -profit organization that manages the popular YouTube livestream.

Young Eagles Feded, if you are able to fly and have feathers with your wings that can fly, usually when you are about 10 to 14 weeks old. Men tend to take their first incline a little earlier.

Sandy Steers, the executive director of the non -profit organization, told Laist that it was particularly exciting because they did not have two Eaglets at the same time with fatty acid. It encourages fans to be in awe of nature and enjoy the moment that so many have been waiting for, especially after that Death of chicks 3.

“After not doing anything, you know only in the nest and practice and practice and train your wings, you know what you should do,” she said. “You just take off … and fly.”

What's going on during “Fledge Watch”

“Fledge Watch” resembles “PIP clock“When the fans looked exactly after Trio from chick When they worked out into the world from their egg shells.

Although many of the steady 30,000 livestream viewers have to grow Sunny and Gizmo in the next phases of life, the Feded window is wide. It could be at any time from now to mid -June if they are about 14 weeks old. However, an earlier Eaglet called Simba took 16 weeks to FLEDGE.

But Sunny and Gizmo have already reached a milestone by staying in the nest for the first time last week. They have also settled on the back of the nest, which the group calls the “back veranda” and flutters into the breeze with their wings over Big Bear Lake.

“If you feel safe enough, you don't know if you go together or separately, but everyone will only decide that it is finished,” said Steers. “From time to time they may return to the nest, but they just fly for the first time and it's beautiful.”

It could take a while for the wing strength to fly back to the nest that is at the top of a high Jeffrey jaw, but Steers expects to stay at the lake. The Eaglets will probably follow Jackie and Shadow while learning to hunt and fish.

Flowsglingen from Southern California were discovered according to the non -profit organization to Yellowstone and to Baja California to Baja California to British Columbia.

What are the upcoming dangers?

Sunny and Gizmo are not yet out of the forest.

According to Peter Sharpe, a biologist from the Institute for Wildlife Studies and Sharpe Wildlife Consulting, Weißkopfseadler are primarily Aasfresser for their first year. This can bring in its own risks – about 70% of the white headsee eagles survive this level according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

One of the biggest problems for the young Eagles is to be hit by a car while eating Roadkill, flying in power lines or poisoning by eating something that was shot.

Simba and another of the former chicks of the nest, Stormy, both were found dead in different parts of California about a year after flooding. Stormy had fled in April 2018 and Simba was last seen in the nest in August 2019.

They were identified according to the numbers with which they were accommodated as chicks in accordance with the data records of the non -profit organizations. It is unclear what happened to them.

“I don't like a lot of things that can happen, but there is not really everything I can do about it,” said Steers. “We will not know where they are or what they do, and we just have to keep our fingers crossed and just know that the universe is in order.”

How to distinguish the Eaglets apart at this time

Sunny will be 10 weeks old from Tuesday, with Gizmo a few days back.

Her bones are almost fully grown and are now almost as big as Mama Jackie and Papa Shadow. In this phase you will be an estimated to be about 3 feet, which is exactly the size of Shadow. Jackie is bigger than most female eagles.

The Eaglets have minor differences in their heads and cocks that can help them say which one is.

Sunny, for example, has a longer cock than older eagles. You can also start recognizing the first white parts on Sunny's tail feathers.

The corner of Gizmos Mund, known as a gape, is orange as a Sunny. Gizmo also has a thicker lower lip that, after the non -profit organization, gives the Eaglet a moody “Mona Lisa smile”.