JACKIE COMES TO NEST AT NIGHT & COVERS HER EGGS! A Time To Say Goodbye! FOBBV Cam 💔💔 4.11.24

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It has been a day of endings for Jackie & Shadow with the breaking of one of the eggs, and now the covering of the remaining two eggs with nesting material. Jackie came to the nest tonight and she began to aerate the nest and is so doing, covers up her two non viable eggs. It is time to say goodbye to them and to the lost dreams & hopes of the season. 💔
After Shadow saw the broken egg this morning and touched the eggshell, he flew off the nest and did not return to incubate the other eggs. It was a surprising turn of events for our Shadow as he was the one keeping the eggs incubated for the past 5 nights in a row. Shadow knew that the eggs were not going to hatch and decided it was time to move forward. 💔
And in another surprising turn of events tonight. Jackie comes to the nest at night - something she has not done in almost a week now, and she promptly covered up the eggs with nesting material. It was her way of saying goodbye to her own lost dreams this season. Jackie then left the nest and we could hear her and Shadow with their evening symphony of chortles, closing out the day and the season. The eggs are not buried in the nest, just covered up. They may get uncovered, they may become part of the nest, or they may be still be scavenged upon by ravens. Both Jackie and Shadow said their goodbyes today and will turn their faces to the sun tomorrow and move forward once again as the strong bald eagle couple they are and have become together.
To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born,
And a time to die;
A time to plant,
And a time to pluck what is planted;
A time to kill,
And a time to heal;
A time to break down,
And a time to build up;
A time to weep,
And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn,
And a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones,
And a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace,
And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to gain,
And a time to lose;
A time to keep,
And a time to throw away;
A time to tear,
And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence,
And a time to speak;
A time to love,
And a time to hate;
A time of war,
And a time of peace.
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Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk
Egg #1 laid 1/25/24 at 16:55. Egg#2 laid 1/28/24 at 13:59. Egg#3 laid 1/31/24 at 17:58. Standard incubation period is 35 days. Here at this nest, the eggs hatch 38/39 days. It is unlikely that the eggs will hatch & we really don't know why they did not hatch. It could be environmental, such as temperatures, humidity percentages, oxygen levels at high altitude, etc. It could be biological with something just being off at the time the eggs were created. It is very unlikely that either Jackie or Shadow are infertile since they have already had 2 sets of chicks together-in 2019 and 2022.
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