Nest #20 Whaling Station Bay - 2015-2016 Season

[boonibarb]

Nest #20 Whaling Station Bay is on lovely lovely spot, on a high cliff overlooking a rocky beach point, with a sandy bay on either side.
In the winter it is a quiet spot, but in the summer the houses & beaches are packed with people.
Last year there were two Eaglets in this Nest, & we were lucky that the people whose property the Tree is on came up just in time to find one of them standing on their deck!
That story & many others about this Nest & the other residents of this territory can be found here.

[boonibarb]

 
It was a lovely warm sunny fall day so we went for a walk along sandy Whaling Station Bay.
The Eagles were calling & calling from the Nest #20 & 21 territories.
Not sure what was going on.
There were a few of those lovely red Lion*s Mane Jellyfish, a big one & some smaller ones.
There were tiny clear ridged thin ones everywhere in the sand.
They were ridged from the center out.
Then there were these cool ones!
i*ve never seen them with the purple before.
 
october 13 2015 15:02 - Jellyfish
 

 

 
link to my fotos page - 
 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/43214021@N08/
 

[winterwren]

Booni, thanks for the photo.
Today, paddling back into Whaling Station Bay, I saw two jellies that were unlike any I had ever seen.
One was like this one you photographed.
The other was like a transparent Moon Jelly, but really big, at least 20 cm across.
I didn't get a chance to get photos and I'm grateful you did.

[jeavverhey]

Your powers of observation and ability to make it clear to those not able to be there always amaze and delight.    Thanks again.

[Cawatcher]

  booni and wren are so fortunate to live in suceh a diverse area ♥

[boonibarb]

According to the divers at Hornby Island Diving, those Jellies are a type of Moon Jelly(Aurelia aurita) which they haven*t seen here before.
She found pictures of them here!

[Tigerlady105]

Jellies are so interesting to watch!

[winterwren]

With kind permission from the neighbours, I spent a while watching this nest yesterday.
This is a tricky nest to see!
When I arrived there seemed to be a food delivery to the nest. A few minutes later I found a spot from which I could see the adult eagle.
June 21, 11:41 am


I spent a while watching but there were human visitors and my attention was split between birds and humans, so I missed most of the several sightings of sundry eaglet body parts. Definitely one little screeper in there and possibly two. I'm thinking this because later on, a few minutes after the adult had flown off, a second adult (i think) came in with a fish. Missed the photo but I could see something of good size held with both feet. Then I could see feeding motions and hear a little squeeing at the same time, so I'm wondering if there was a second eaglet complaining while waiting for his turn?
No way to be sure for now.
Here is the best photographic evidence I have of one eaglet, anyway. Just an outline of a brown head to the left.
12:13

[Cawatcher]

Good sleuthing Wren!

[jeavverhey]

Patience pays - sort of 

[winterwren]

A neighbour of this nest told me something about eagle behaviour, something I had been curious about.
From her yard, she can see this pair's sleeping tree!

I asked her where the fledglings sleep after they leave the nest.
She said the adults settle in their sleeping tree at about 8 pm in early August. Sometimes, shortly after that, a fledgling comes clumsily flying along, thrashing among the trees. He or she tries to go share the parents' night-time perch, but they don't let that happen. The fledgling usually settles in a neighbouring tree, but is not allowed in the parents' sleeping tree.

 

[boonibarb]

i have heard this same behaviour described by neighbours who live near that perch Tree on the other side of the road!