Captiva Eagle Cam ✿ Double Deliveries - Connick Mantle And Holds The Live One Down ✿ 2023.02.19

The capture starts on sideview where Connick is tracking something and soon we see Connie land on the nest with a live catfish. Connick mantles. Seconds later Clive lands on the other side of the nest with a much larger fish. Connie is quick to leave her smaller fish and grabs the larger one and starts feeding. Switching over to the overhead view we get a good look at Connick mantling the fish and grabbing at it. Connie starts to feed and shortly after Connick got its foot on that catfish holding it down. Guess that one is Connick too.

𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚/𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚

Captiva Island, Florida is off the coast of Fort Myers, Florida. The nest is on private property and not accessible to the public.

✿ Connie is the resident female eagle and I estimated her to be 19/20 years old as of 2022 but could be older
✿ Clive is the resident male eagle and I estimate him to be 6/7 years old as of 2022 based on his plumage when he arrived and his inexperience but that is only a guess

𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐬𝐭:

𝐍𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐀𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞

The Resident Female Eagle (Connie) and her former mate (Joe) first showed up in 2009 and took over the nest which used to be an osprey nest. Between her and her former mate, the nest has been successful in fledging numerous eaglets.

The two eagles that were at this nest in 2009 were still there when the property was bought in 2017. The New property owners named the eagles Connie and Joe after her parents. Based on the eagles being observed at this nest in 2009 they would of had to been 5 years old already. That would make both of them 13/14 years old in 2017. Over the 3 years before the cams went live Connie and Joe hatched 2 eaglets each year.

2017-2018 2 Hatched - 2 Fledged
2018-2019 2 Hatched - 1 Fledged
2019-2020 2 Hatched - 2 Fledged

𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐆𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎-𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧

Tragedy struck the nest in early 2021 when both eaglets passed away from rodenticide and her long-time mate Joe got into a territorial battle. Joe was injured in the battle and disappeared after. As to what became of him, we do not know.

Since Joe's disappearance, two male eagles have won Connie's attention.

Martin:
The first male was Martin who came after Joe's disappearance and returned with Connie for the 2021-2022 nesting season. Unfortunately, Martin was challenged shortly after their return by another male eagle and lost out to that Eagle. We can only hope Martin left the area and was not killed in the battle.

Clive:
The second male was the winner of the battle with Martin and was eventually named Clive. Though it took a bit, he finally won Connie's heart and is now the Resident Male at the nest. Their first season together (2021-2022) was unsuccessful even though two eggs were laid. Speculation was that the eggs were not fertilized due to the short time Connie and Clive had together before the eggs were laid.

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