Thursday, February 26, 2026

2/26 pm










1206 p.m. Miss Bella calls out for relief she's been on the nest for quite a bit 12:10 p.m. here comes Mr Eagle scout! To relieve her! 12:11 Miss Bella arises out of the cup and does a quick stretch before leaving for her much needed break. She flies to the daycare tree and stays there for a bit.....














12:06 p.m. Miss Bella calls out for relief she's been on the nest for quite a bit
12:10 p.m. here comes Mr Eagle scout! To relieve her
! 12:11 Miss Bella arises out of the cup and does a quick stretch before leaving for her much needed break. She flies to the daycare tree and stays there for a bit....
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1230 pm Currently in Shepherdstown it is Partly Cloudy 48 F Wind 11 to 16 mph. Expected high today is 52 and winds should ease a bit later today. 
148 pm Scout in with a stick nearly lands on Bella. Bella moves off the eggs and we get a lovely view of both eggs. Scout walks right thorough the egg cup area with his stick. Geeze. Eggs look okay afterward from what we can see at least. Bella eats leftover catfish carcass and she ate a good portion of it yesterday. Scout stands by but has not resumed incubation. Maybe a switch coming up maybe not.
204 pm Bella exits the nest. Scout takes over incubation duty, shimmy shimmy rocks side to side as he positions the eggs inside his brood patch. Incubation resumes.
213 pm Bella checks and rolls her eggs. I think the corn stalk got rolled too. Sometimes we only get a partial view aka a quick peek at both eggs. Cam 3 provided this view. Raining. 

344 pm Scout is perched on a lower limb at the BST possibly hunting squirrel. Field Cam capture.

347 pm Scout exits the BST perhaps headed to the stick depot or river.354 pm Scout arrives with a bundle of bedding, Bella gets up and exits the nest. As Bella leaves we get a nice view of both eggs. Switch to Scout.

Switch to Scout.

354pm Switch to Scout.

417pm Scout repositions, egg rolls, and shimmys back in. He plays with the corn husk a little. 🤣

421 Scout egg rolls, repositions and resumes incubating..

434pm Scouts playing with the corn husk again. Bella enjoys pine cones, walnuts, corn husk, and leaves to decorate her nest. Scout has a love hate relationship with her decor. 🤣

522 p.m. Ms Bella arrives on the scene with a load of bedding she lands with it and starts placing it against his side is she tucking him in nope she's wanting him to get up and this is a way to say move lol! My turn with Eggies
Pictures from camera threes View the eggs are quite well hidden they're not showing us any Peaks. 624 p.m. Ms Bella does a egg of a visual on the Eggies she moves bedding out of the ball and spreads it around herself


624pm Bella stands up,fluffs and pulls up the bedding around the eggs.

625pm Bella repositions, egg rolls and shimmys in. Bella keeps looking toward the river and BST for Scout to settle in for the night. She tuckaroos and there's the corn stalk again 🤣

638p. Bella fluffs bedding, repositions, egg rolls and shimmys in.
I haven't the clue how the pictures got posted over the comments at 12:00 post I had to replace it 
In memory of our dear friend Jo Lennox
Please be respectful if you decide to make a comment. Any advertisement will be deleted. Thank you, Steven Chase for allowing me to continue the blog, but in a different manner than he intended. As a conversation piece, it is now for a videos and blogging thanks to the Outdoor Channel for providing us the internet access! Thanks to all the Hyvor  participants that make comments on the page Thank you for the National conservation training center in Shepherdstown West Virginia for providing the camera for us to watch! Judy Eddy 👋🦅❤️🥚🪹🤍


2/26 pm

1206 p.m. Miss Bella calls out for relief she's been on the nest for quite a bit 12:10 p.m. here comes Mr Eagle scout! To relieve her! 1...