Sunday, March 01, 2026

3/1 AM

 12:41 am Bella is up she checks rolls the eggs then resumes incubation. Bella is now facing 6 as she settles into sleep.

1:05 am Bella preens her brood patch, then checks and rolls the eggs resuming incubation facing 3 o'clock now.
1:30 am Bella checks and rolls the eggs resuming incubation facing 12 o'clock now.
1:45 am Bella does another egg check then resumes incubation facing 5 o'clock.
3:16 am Bella had a long sleep this last time, now she is up preening a bit then she checks rolls the eggs and resumes incubation, facing 12 o'clock.
4 am Bella checks rolls the eggs then resettles incubation facing 5 o'clock now.
4;20 am Bella is a snoozette. Sleeping with her head tucked in underneath her wing.
5;41 am Bella is awake, time to start her day? Preens her brood patch.
5:43 am Bella has a poop shoot off the deck then returns to the egg cup, checks rolls the eggs and incubation resumes facing 5 o'clock.
6:20 am Bella and Scout vocalize back and forth several times. Bella sounded the trumpet too, gotta love those good morning Trumpets. Take note heat lands on the branch directly in front of our view I've never seen him land on that you can see his head in his tail from the picture Scout lands on a nest side branch we do not see that very often. Good Morning Scout. Time for Bella’s break
6:21 am Scout lands in the tree then flies down onto the nest.
6:23 am Switch to Scout
7:30 am Switch to Bella
757am Bella repostions, egg rolls and resumes incubating.
806am Bella reposiions, egg rolls and continues incubating.
813am Scouts in, bedding delivery. Bella tucks in her corn husk.
815am Scout exits the nest toward NCTC buidings/river area.
843am Bella repostions, arrayed the egg bole and resumes incubating.
854a Bella repositions, egg rolls and shimmys back in.
931am Bella repostions, egg rolls, aerates the egg bole and resumes incubation duty
953am Bella gets up, moves the corn husk, repositions, egg rolls, and resumes incubating.
1039am Scouts in, Big stick delivery. Bella gets up, flys from the back crib rail to the front crib rail and exits to the DCT. Scout places his stick.
1040am Switch to Scout. Scout egg rolls and shimmys in. He tucks his corn husk in.
1043am Bella exits DCT toward NCTC buildings/river area.
1047 Scout repositions, fluffs the egg bole, egg rolls and resumes incubation duty.
1052am Scout repositions, fluffs the egg bole, egg rolls and resumes incubating.
1112am Scout repositions and egg rolls.
1121am Scout repositions, egg rolls and continues incubating the eggs.
1133am Scout repositions, egg rolls and shimmys back in.
Egg #2 is 11 days old (laid Feb. 18th), Egg #3 (laid Feb. 21st)is 8 days old Today. 🥚
11:50 Scout up repositions and 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 👋🦅❤️🥚🪹🤍

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JudyEddy said...

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

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