I just had to comment that this VEIW is amazing... I could sit back and hear the wind and birds 🐦 are chirping and just be so relaxed... I truly appreciate it when someone (as yourself) gets great video like this!!
I saw a video where a hawk swoops down on an eagle nest and carries away a lone eaglet and here we have an eagle killing a hawklet... as sad as it is watching a little one die, it's all part of the cycle of life and the food chain. Every living thing must eat and they don't care if it takes brutality to get their meals.
Whoever designed nature in this planet probably wants to force this concept of "selfishness" and "survival of the fittest", onto all living things on earth. Which is kind of annoying, haha.
I know the video you're talking about; I just landed here from watching it. The parent eagles return to the nest after 2 hours and 11 minutes, one with a frog and the other later with what looks like a mole. The father eagle flies in the same direction the hawk headed as though heading to the hawk's best to teach it a lesson. That picking was quick and precise.
Hmm...but even this act of pointing out any mistakes, not to refine truth but to make others feel wrong about what they've said, is a proof that aggression, war and conflict is designed into nature itself, lol. And human beings are part of nature. This superiority/inferiority(right/wrong) dynamics, forced onto us all by our aggressive animal nature. (I mean, I know altruism also exist in nature of course. But what about the tons of selfishness and aggression designed into nature too? Why design living thing to attack and consume each another? And will human beings treat one another differently and with more love and unity, if conflict is not designed into our primal animal instincts? So that people have no more instincts to attack nor defend, or make each other feel wrong/bad about themselves, etc? These are the question I've always wanted to ask.)
Apparently eagles will take chicks from hawk nests fairly regularly. If they survive being carried back to the eagle's nest, they often immediately begin begging for food when they are released. The adults' parenting instincts are so strong that they can then raise the hawk chick along with their own. They can even fledge occasionally and it results in some weird behaviors, like red-tailed hawks that eat fish and the like.
Red-tailed hawks eating fish is not weird. They're opportunistic and will eat anything. Just because they have a preference for mammals doesn't mean that if they eat something else that there has to be an explanation for it.
@@peatmoss4415 I have. Once, during a bad drought in Texas, a red-shoulder just swooped into our backyard, plopped itself into our pond, and left with our only butterfly koi 😢
Ugh, life as it is... poor lil guy and to hear the struggle for food for the eagles to eat the youngest...to be expected .. a way of life you always warn us about...😢 I bet its hard for you if not harder.. Hugs Lady Hawk, (I hope Spilve and virsis find food with their lil one)
This video appears to skip the initial attack by the female Eagle. We only see where Milda begins to stomp on the poor hawklet. Is there video of the initial attack? I’m just wondering what provoked the Eagle to attack the bird and start feeding it to her Eaglets out of the blue..
Hello Joe the live cam stream buffered for those 6-7 minutes and so no one was able to get that footage. When the cam back live this is the footage we saw with Milda going after the hawklet.
They have arborists that climb the trees and put them up there. There’s videos of them climbing up and rescuing baby birds that need medical attention.
The food chain must be dwindling. I have noticed myself that there are very few bunnies and reduced number of squirrels in my yard lately, where there was a very annoying number of them eating everything in site. One even showed up at the bird feeder with a hole in its side.
Sorry can you explain to me, was that her baby or was it food she bought for her eaglets? How did the hawlet get there in the first place? I’m confused.
Hi Chaplin Dad eagle brought the hawklet in as prey but then left him alone on the nest for quite for some time!! The hawklet was preening and wingercising and we were hopeful that he would be fed like the other eaglets and grow up and fledge. We have seen a hawklet survive in several nests in the US in bald eagle nests and raised and fed. But here unfortunately when Mom - Milda came to the nest she saw something was different and she immediately killed the hawklet.
Hi lady Hawk. I thought the third eaglet in this nest was pushed to the rails by the other two eaglets, then dragged back in by a parent and then ended up falling off the nest a second time to the ground. The nest where the third eaglet died and was fed to the other two was the Notre Dame Indiana nest. I could be confused following all these nests but I think I have it right.
It was pushed to the edge but I did not watch. I thought Dad brought it back to the nest and fed to the other eaglets but I was thinking of ND nest. Sorry for the confusion it has been a very difficult and tragic past several days at the eagle nests.
With all the nests you follow it is very easy to mix them up. I agree the last few days and some would say the whole season has been tough. Thank you for your great videos. They are excellent and your descriptions are right on the mark.
@@dinok9647 Thank you so much! I am watching my happy albatross nest right now with a great reunion with OGK and YRK and Pippa! The first time in two months they have been together as a family. ♥♥ I need to see this now and get away from the heartbreak and tragedy! Take care!!
How did the little guy get in the nest in the first place? Was he brought there as a meal, or is he a stray who landed in the nest on accident? Poor little thing, but such is life, one dies so that one may live.
The male Raimis brought the live hawklet in as prey and let him live for several hours. It was when the female Milda came to the nest that she immediately killed the hawklet
For the ppl who don't know how this can happen or why? This is mainly to fish lack, since fishes are their principal food source, Eagles starts to steal other Eagles chicks from nests or any other nest near, even Owls do this, there's a lot of videos of Owls hunting chicks of other Raptors. Parents also are able to kill the most young one for bring food to the others if there's a high lack of food around
Hello Frank - no I did not. If you read the description in the video and in the comment section you will see that the cam buffered and there was no signal or transmission for several minutes. During that time, the hawklet was attacked by the female eagle. As soon as the live stream was back, I included what was being broadcast. This is what we all saw and no one has any additional footage.
Could domesticated animals have made the choice to have people protect them rather than being subject to the depredations of the wild. For some it ends in death anyway but it should be quick. Their treatment before harvest is another aspect that should be considered.
@@elevate32767 I know that, but they're usually dead by the time they get delivered to the nest and they aren't usually tortured as much as the baby hawk was
The way the mom puts that twig on the hawklet and the eaglet pulls it off of him, is quite interesting. Its like he was trying to help but is afraid he might be next if he interferes.
It's fascinating that she recognizes the hawklet. From an evolutionary perspective, why should white tailed eagles be better at this than golden or bald eagles, both of which seem to raise hawks from time to time. Would love to understanding the selective pressures
You no doubt sound very smart parroting the narrative of "everything observed in the wild kingdom must support the evolutionary theory!" It would be advantageous to consider...If, there is a god, and If, he did create all living things. Do you think he will overlook people like you who spread the lie that all life just happened? What a day it will be when we all find out!
Sometimes a hawklet's self-preservation instinct is so strong that it prevails its fear and a hawklet starts begging for food when an eagle (usually mom) starts feeding its chicks. Mom's urge/instinct to feed a chick is so strong, that it'll start feeding anything that begs for food and that's how sometimes hawklets are being raised by eagles. Every single one of them was brought to the eagle nest as a potential meal, and some of them were just lucky and strong enough to prevail, as I said before, their fear and start simply begging for food. It's all instinctive and yes, it's all evolutionary conditioned.
Since the male eagle could not kill the son of the hawk, this indicates that the female is more fierce than the male. Because the female killed the son of the hawk, but if the female was not there, the male eagle would have fed the son of the hawk. That is why Kazakhs use a female eagle to hunt wolves, and I saw an eagle alone that shot down a wolf
I wonder what the decision process was on which one to choose to kill. They all looked pretty healthy. And the bird walked around the nest kinda like sizing them up.
My first guess would be.....She Picked the ONLY ONE that wasn't hers biologically!! The other two happen to be her offsprings!! I was Uber Confused at first as well.... The Momma bird and the two Surviving baby birds ARE ALL eagles and the baby bird that she killed was a baby hawk per the description....... Hope this Kinda helps at the very least!!
The description states the male brought him into the nest that day and left him there. Then the female showed up she realizes that something is different as she looks at the hawklet and killed it and fed it to her babies.
@@TimHammett1964 I think the parents bring the live victims so the eaglets start to learn their prey is was live. You'll notice the eaglets don't even know to pick up food that is dropped. The parents must beak feed to a certain age?
That's fucked up but we as humans are just as savage posting this so stuff and watching it!! Actually we are worse bcuz these are animals and they don't have the mental capacity of a human and yet humans savagely beat, torture and kill their young so I guess watching this shouldn't be a problem for those with that mentality
You're a new friend one minute, then end up as their live lunch the next..... life really sucks sometimes.....! I wonder if the eaglets thought, "hey a new friend...", or "oh boy, lunch has arrived... I hope momma arrives soon and feeds it to us...".
predator birds murder babies as well as anything else alive, get real...a giant redtail murdered a nestful of bluejay babies, slowly....but there the parents cries were hysterical and pathetic.... hawks and eagles eyes always stare evilly, having that face of mama glaring at you from birth seems horrifying.
Clearly Milda didn’t like intruder in nest. I was wondering how another baby raptor got into this mess. A different Eagle brought him and Milda fed him to her babies.
@Jamie Koering I think it's tiresome when people write long diatribes and think others care about what they think. Blah, blah, save the lecture. We all know it's kill or be killed. People like you are tiresome.
@@SamtheMan0508 Obviously some people don't realize the simple facts about birds of prey and try putting human emotions into these birds hence the great comment. Doesn't mean you have to be rude to a commenter for stating factual content. People like YOU are what's tiresome!
Was wondering how it got there. Maybe the male thought he’d killed it and didn’t realize it wasn’t dead. How did the male get the hawklet without one of the hawk parents try to fight him off though. Poor hawk parents that lost their baby that day :(
Most likely a parasitic egg-laying. Hawk mama laid the egg on the eagle's nest so that the eagles would be tricked into raising the hawkling. Didn't work this time.
Rafael no, the male eagle brought it in after stealing it from a hawk nest. But he didn't kill it, he let it live and then flew away. Later the female eagle arrived & killed it. She uploaded a different video of the male eagle flying in with the baby hawk.
@@sto1asgoetia600 only because the eaglets do not know how to hunt or scavenge yet. If they new, they would have torn the hawk apart themselves without mama doing it for them.
I I read the description first. This nest had 3 eagle babies? And they ate one of their own yesterday. Wow. Hope they find some regular food soon. But if food is that scarce it makes sense to have less mouths to feed. Whether your own or competing species. Strange the male didn't kill it right away.
I saw that live Lady Hawk. Sad, disturbing but it’s nature and could be graphic. Not for the faint of heart. But the eaglets gotta eat. I heard Food can be scarce there in that area. Thank you Lady Hawk for sharing this vid. Need a good stomach and not to cry..For its SURVIVAL.
I understand and share all the sentiments expressed by people here and yet it feels we are projecting our human natures and feelings ( as touching as they are) onto the birds. Its as if we are expecting the eagles to behave like us - thats again repeating the domination of nature by humans. The eaglets were taught an important lesson about killing and eating live prey -thats their world ( not ours ). To me the point of watching nest cam is to understand the eagles from their own perspective and their world.
Also, from the parent's perspective. If they recognize something in their nest as not one of their own. It's their job to eliminate it before it harms their kids. Aside from that, it's also a drain on their resources while alive, and an easy source of food. So they have every reason to kill the hawklet, and it's better than letting it die slowly due to starvation.
Nobody here want's to put their human blah blah on anything. We have a right to be sad without someone analyzing it. I've seen stork's cruelty and it's to their chick's. I've seen sibling's kill the small chick in the eagle nest's also.
We expect eagles to behave like us? We are much worse. Eagles kill other birds to feed their but we kill other humans and we kill our own babies and call it planned parenthood. The parenthood is so funny. You kill your baby and call yourself a parent. Please don't compare animals with us. They are much better.
@@johnpan78 I can but only smile at your post- how you managed to get your anti abortion and Planned parenthood attacks into a discussion about eagles -:)). What's next - Trump is the saviour of eagles -:))
LadyHawk, I have seen another video where RedTailHawk survived living in the nest with other eaglets! And it was amazing! She dashed across when parent bald Eagle brought food! It was out of sight! She became a fighter to other eaglets! She/He will go out as Eagle Pride in his blood! (In other nest - had 3 eaglets!) ^•^ It would have been nice if this eagle fed Hawklet and raised.
I had a slim hope that this hawklet would be left alone and could survive just like the hawklet did in the Vancouver nest and in the Redding California eagle nests. But sadly the female saw it as prey.
@@ladyhawk hope to find another Harley that can survive the Eagle’s Nest! I am so grateful for the Vancouver eagle nest that I got to watch in my lifetime: Priceless! 💫
