Lucina Gives 1st & 2nd Feedings To Hatchling 🐣 Nest Of The Golden Eagle / Wild Bucovina 5.14.24

Lucina wakes up to a beautiful sunrise and rays shining upon her while she broods her new hatchling and incubates egg#2. She will get up and give the very first feeding to her chick - it takes a long time as the chick has poor vision and can't really see Mom's beak and Mom is tearing off pieces of hare that is too big for the day old chick to grab. Also the chick has to grab the food out of the parent's beak and you will see Lucina take it back several times. This is normal feeding behavior and the chick will grow and gain strength and will be able to grab it better in the upcoming days. It looked like the chick only got some saliva during this feeding but that is okay!

It is a lesson in patience watching them but a beautiful experience seeing Lucina offering bites of food to her little one. The 2nd feeding takes place a couple hours later and this time Lucina is serving up the snake that was previously brought in for the pantry. The hatchling gets a few bites of food as Lucina works her magic. The chick has a good set of lungs already! Thank you for watching!

Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk

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First Egg laid 4/1/24. Second egg laid 4/5/24. Egg #1 hatches 5/13/24

The nest is located in Romania and features Lucina & Caliman. The pair of Golden Eagles are Lucina and Caliman had their first breeding season together in 2023 which produced two eggs and both hatched. The 1st eaglet accidentally died from exposure. The 2nd eaglet Alunu fledged successfully on July 19th 2023.

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Live cam courtesy of Stelian Bodnari ~ Wild Bucovina Association. Thank you so much Stelian for bringing us the live cam again this year!

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