[Bristol-Birds] Re: South fork of Holston R. eagles

  • From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:09:09 -0400

Hi Lois,

This forwarded e-mail was sent to me Thursday, 25 July 2012, from Bob and Alice 
Cheers who live just up the road from the Bald Eagle's nest on Riverside Rd. in 
the log cabin fishing house under the new Weaver Pike Bridge. The photo of the 
eaglets was taken Wednesday, 25 July 2012, at the pond along Riverside Rd. back 
towards Silver Grove Rd. from the nest. I think it was the same day and same 
pond where you saw both adults and an eaglet.  At that time, Bob told me by 
cell phone the eaglets were in a tree behind the pond as seen from the road. 
Bob had called to report both eaglets seen and I asked him if they could now 
tell if one of the eaglets appears to have caught up in growth and size to its 
larger sibling which hatched first this spring. It is not expected that both 
eaglets should be the same size at any time.  The reason being that would only 
happen if they are of the same sex and could catch up with one another in 
growth.  Otherwise, the larger might be a female and the smaller a male since 
females are larger than males even at full maturity. Since they seem to nearly 
be the same size, according to the Cheers, we might assume they are of the same 
sex but we won't know which sex.  Evidently both eaglets were doing well on 
Wednesday evening.  You can read Bob's e-mail below.  Thanks for the report.

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN

cc: Bob & Alice Cheers

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Bob & Alice Cheers 
To: Wallace Coffey 
Cc: Robert Cheers 
Sent: July 26, 2012 05:07
Subject: Emailing: Eaglets 7-25-12 006, Eaglets 7-25-12 001, Eaglets 7-25-12 
002, Eaglets 7-25-12 003, Eaglets 7-25-12 004


  Wallace:

Scaling the "head to tail length" and "body width" on the (5) photos revealed: 
                         
                1.  The bird on the right is slightly longer on (4) of (5) 
photos
                2.  The bird on the left has a slightly wider body on (4) of 
(5) photos

Alice and I both agreed that the bird on the left appeared  to be "ever so 
slightly larger", when viewing both birds at the same time under 20x and 60x 
magnification.  In my opinion, they are so close in size that you would be 
unable to discern a size difference if you were viewing them apart from each 
other.  I would be interested in your comments regarding their size upon your 
review of the photos....Bob   

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Lois Cox
To: Bristol Birds 
Subject: [Bristol-Birds] South fork of Holston R. eagles
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:37:04 -0400

On Wednesday, July 25, around 3:45 PM I observed both adult bald eagles and one 
of the eaglets on the ground on the north side of the farm pond across from 619 
Riverside Rd.  This was the first time I had seen the two adults together in 
several weeks.  I have only seen one eaglet at a time since I posted the 
picture of the two on July 7, 2012. 

Lois Cox
Riverside Rd.
Bluff City, TN

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