I always wondered why the female never brought food to the nest but only nesting material.
Now it seems something has changed. I wonder what. I only can think of the male doing not enough now the chick needs more to eat. On the other hand in 2016 I established that the young Buzzards did not get more food items with age but less.
Hellem wrote: ↑June 24th, 2018, 8:18 pm
Today 5 preys from Tõnn and 2 from Tiiu, may be there were more deliveries, I didn't watch constantly
Because they usually last no more than some 10 seconds the deliveries by the male are easy to miss but with 5 deliveries you probably have not missed much.
06:30 The male brought a vole.
The chick was left alone at 06:38
09:20 Female came with nesting material and left one minute later. At the moment (11:45) the chick is still alone.
12:14 I have missed the return of the female. 12:45 she left again.
there was another material delivery by Tiiu around 10. she flew off soon again. the chick nibbles a while at the new twig, 10:16 calls of an adult, and the chick answered
12:40 Tõnn brought a big vole, the eaglet grabbed it and tried to swallow it
12:42 Tiiu landed, took the prey from the eaglet and started feeding, 12:46 feeding is over
19:28 The eaglet finds a prey (I don't know who and when brought it) in the nest and tries to eat it
19:35 Tried to swallow it in one piece but it's too big, now I saw the prey is a big vole
19:38 The eaglet managed to swallow the vole
EDIT: The vole brought Tõnn at 19:21, thank you Fleur
20:02 Tiiu landed and brought a green branch
20:06 She started feeding
20:13 The mole is gone and feeding is over, Tiiu cleans the table, the chick's crop is as ball
So everyone knows why the female is hunting too now.
The eaglet is always hungry and the more it gets the bigger it becomes and the more it needs . . .