2/23 pm 🐟and🐿

12:27 Bella arrives back at the nest.
12:28 Bella takes over duties, rolls the 🥚 and settles in for incubation. Scout moves a stick and then flies off.

125 p.m. we are up doing a egg 🥚roll back down to incubate

147 pm Scout arrives with a nice grey squirrel 🐿meal for Bella. Bella calls out with her happy vocals. Bella stands up and claims the meal. Bella moves up to the front porch and starts to eat her meal. We have a good view of the eggs.

153 pm Scout exits.
154 pm Scout returns with a stick; Scout drops the stick close to the eggs. Geeze get that out of there Scout.
155 pm Scout moves the small stick away from the eggs.
156 pm Eggs are uncovered except for some light bedding. Bella is eating Scout is on strike.
2 pm Scout has left. Bella is done eating she returns to the egg cup, checks, rolls the 🥚 then resumes incubation. No Switch.
208 pm Good grief Scout flies in with a large branch and nearly lands on top of Bella. He plows right over Bella to move the stick. Nothing like getting whacked in the head with a stick.
211 pm Bella gets up and exits the nest. Switch to Scout
Scout moves over to the egg cup, he checks the eggs gives at least one of the eggs a tuck and a  🥚roll and resumes incubation. Shimmy shimmies down on the eggs.
211 pm View of the eggs as Scout takes over incubation. Cam #3

224 pm Bella perched at the DCT. Now I am out for a break bbl.Bella is perched in their favorite tree behind Day Care, on Cam Bella is perched in their favorite tree behind Day Care, on Cam 1.

233pm Scout 🥚  roll

310 pm Bella is perched in the attic. Scout is incubating.
318 pm Scout gets up and moves over to the squirrel meal Bella is whining from the attic she does not want Scout to eat that meal.

322 pm Now that was 

odd. Scout exits with 

the squirrel🐿 circles 

then brings it back to 

the nest. Bella is still up 

in the attic.

328 pm Attic is MT 

(empty) Scout is still at 

the nest but not 

incubating. Scout must 

have heard me as he 

returns to the egg cup, 

checks and rolls the 🥚

eggs and resumes 

incubation.

Eggs uncovered from 

316 to 328 pm.

In the Attic

405 Bella settled down on the eggs. Both are in the nest. Scout flew away. Facing 9 o’cloc

452pm Bella aerates the egg cup. 🥚roll

453pm Bella 🥚 rolls and shimmys back in.

522 Bella exits. Seen cam 1 Bella passing Scout high in the sky. Bella's headed over NCTC building/river area.

523 Scouts in, Small 🐟 delivery. Scout ate the fish.

525pm Switch to Scout. Scout takes over incubation.

526 Scout tuckaroos and shimmys back in.

527 Scouts up

528 Scout egg rolls and resumes incubating.

531pm Scout repositions, egg rolls and shimmys in.

547 Scout repositions, aerates the egg bole, egg rolls, and shimmys in.

554pm Scout repositions and egg rolls.

555pm Scouts looking up calling. Bellas heard calling back from the attic.

554 pm Scout rises up and checks the eggs, rolls them then resumes incubation again.

555 pm Bella flies in and lands in the attic. Scout starts to trumpet, trills and Bella returns his calls.

A few pictures from camera 3

606pm Bella exits the attic and lands in the nest. . Scouts up. Bella claims the leftover squirrel 🐿 from earlier

622 pm Bella finished the squirrel meal she ate the entire carcass too. Bella moves over to the egg cup checks, rolls the eggs then resumes incubation. She shimmies a few times to make sure the eggs are positioned inside her brood patch in the perfect spot to keep them warm and dry. She was actually like choking the last of the meal down got stuck in her

651 pm Bella sleeping facing 1 o’clock

729pm Bella repositions, egg rolls, and shimmys back in

829 for another egg roll

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 👋🦅❤️🥚🪹🥚🤍