if you can't watch then it's best for you not to - life on bird nests isn't always pretty - they all have to eat

Tracy Lee, I totally agree. I was thinking about baby crow all day and now my heart is broken. Poor baby and parents.

Me and you both .....

I had high hopes for the last couple of days, but the story ended tragically for the little crow.

So I guess we can scratch your name off the list of being the next Sir David Attenborough.

Yes with their excellent memory and ability to hold a grudge I see a lot of harassment for this eagle family for a long time to come.

Its a long chain, all smaller birds harass crows for the same thing. Remember a vid where a crow picked off 3 baby Robbins one by one. Left those parents with nothing.

@@dadscavaliers642 yep..I am indifferent to this. But I love them eagles

Why?!? Eagles do not feed other chicks except their own.

@@johnnyboyjohns2930 she parent did. Two different bird with different feeding style. Crows shoves food down their babies mouth and throat. Eagles holds the food in their beak and their babies grabs from their beak. The eagle offer the food the crow but it just only open it’s mouth. Eagles aren’t designed to shove food into the crow mouth cause of their beak.

K W Thanks. Your post helped the lump in my throat. I’m not watching or reading any more on this, past LH’s intro and your comment. With what is....and isn’t....happening in the US and so many countries right now, I’m wrung out. I assume you’re safe--stay safe.

Fusion72 said in loving satire, I hope?

Fusion72 Whew! Thx.

What were the babies doing there? Crows do not eat birdseed.

Most likely some other species as crows don't eat bird seed, and other birds are prey. You'll never see other birds feeAding or socializing with crows.

😰😭

That's y they have different types of beaks...

Baby crows, like most nestlings, gape. Eaglets and many other young birds of prey don't.

But, is it me or the mother eagle ignored the crow even though it opened its mouth 🙂

Yes..that was awesome

She was feeding her son while denies food to the other who is about to become food.Im so traumatized

Paternity leave is also an amazing thing 🙄

@@incgohd lol, quite a tangent but hilarious nonetheless.

I find it hard to watch the crowlet begging for food and the eagle is so confused by the “quiet” pleas for food. I’m sorry it didn’t survive. But, it will be one less crow annoying the eagles

Then why did you click it?

Lol...eagles not a bit worried

@@samwright285 true Sam Wright but the crows and raven are calculated they may even watch and wait til the parent Eagles arent there and possibly take the Eagles Eggs

They remember faces I watched an experiment in here where crows acted a different way when they didn’t recognize someone I had a family of crows that lived in my oak tree for several years I knew them they knew me I put an old man mask on and they went nuts So the eagles be warned next year payback

of course not because the baby is dead :3

@@BobbNaef even worse they pass that learned knowledge to their kids so if you treated them like crap, they’ll always remember it and treat you like crap

Yes that is a wonderful comment and thought! Thank you for the inspiration and hope that his life was not in vain. I like to believe that the crowlet did touch us and bring us together a ray of hope during these difficult times. Thank you barnowlwatcher!

what? bring people together? huh? made me mad it wasnt rescued!!!

Lauren You just made my point - when a situation like this occurs where an item of prey is brought into the nest and is still alive and not killed, it gets a lot of attention as people watch to see how the situation will unfold. There are documented cases where the predator species seems to adopt the prey species but it is still very rare. These cams are allowing us to view these incidents and yes, they have a world wide audience which is why I made my comment. Probably everybody was rooting for this little crow. The crow didn’t actually stand a chance though as it just has a very different way of eating than birds of prey. To your point of rescuing, that is *our* human nature to want to save the crow. But there are consequences to intervening in an active eagle nest...for starters it is illegal and you wouldn’t want to jeopardize the eaglet in any way unless absolutely necessary (like removing a fishing line tangled around an eaglet’s foot as happened in the SWFE cam) for example. Remember this is their world, not ours, so we are just observing their life because a camera happens to be there. I swear it never gets easier when watching some drama unfold, and so many of us debated the issue of letting birds be rescued when they were starving to death, but I finally understand this is nature and it has its own way of balancing its populations. If you think about it, why should the eaglet not get its food so the crow can live? Who gets to make that kind of decision? You just go around and around, lol. And even though I know that, I still sometimes chase the hawk that tries to get my songbirds at my feeders! I yell “go hunt someplace else” as if I have the right to deny him his dinner. There is an amazing story I would love to share if you don’t already know about it. Here on KZfaq look up SassePhoto. Look for his video titled Hawk raised by Eagles - The complete story. He documented this incredible event which happened in 2017 in B.C. Then, earlier this week we had another situation in Latvia in a White tailed eagle nest - he has a short video on that but it didn’t end well. There is one more story that happened last year, here in California, with another bald eagle nest accepting a red tailed hawk that was brought in as prey, but I’m not sure he made a video. Take care 😊

@@barnowlwatcher if u cannot or will not rescue the baby bird then shut off the camera. whatever

Lauren Why would you want to have the camera shut off so we can’t continue to watch the eaglet grow and hopefully fledge? As far as I can tell unless you are vegetarian (human or animal), you are eating other living things to survive. Do you have a problem with lions eating baby zebras? Should we shut off that camera? Let the lion cub die to save the zebra? Everything that depends on some other living thing is simply surviving, as they have evolved to do. Only us humans have a choice. Are you vegan? Do you have a leather belt? Shoes? Perhaps you are forgetting that the crows raid nests ALL THE TIME. Is that okay with you? This is just nature and if this really bothers you then you should watch cams that don’t involve something eating something else.

It sad I kind of feel that the eaglet was imitating what the parents do by sitting on it to keep it warm. Not meaning to suffocate it.

@@qp3105 same

@@qp3105 No. Siblings rivalry are pretty normal to the chicks of predatory bird.

Wish they would've torn it apart

Hi R Jax I was very sad to see this outcome even though I prepared myself for it. It is a privilege to witness all of these events even though we did not see a positive outcome. Dr Sasse is such a wonderful man and his coverage and passion for the raptors shines through in everything he does! I am really honored he mentions me!! I hope you are doing well and staying safe!! Take care!!

Lady Hawk, You and Dr Sasse make a great team. I've heard him thank you and give you credit many times. Your videos help him keep us informed about what we are seeing. I think you both have truly generous spirits. If I wasn't on a fixed income I would send donations. Please know how much you are appreciated!!

@@firstlight7419 What a very kind and sweet thing to say! Thank you so much First Light!! I do this just because I have a great passion for the raptors!! I am really happy that the videos bring all of us together in some small way.

Crows DEFINITELY remember, they are INTELLIGENT birds.

I've had red tail hawks where I live three seasons in a row making babies. This year the crows came, and on several occasions I watched them attacking the hawks mid flight chasing them away. No more red tail hawks this here, actually kind of sad about it. But I like crows too. And they definitely hit above their weight class with their brains and tenacity.

@@julierogers1155Yes they are Intelliegent

It was an amazing experience.... Nobody help the Crows, nobody climb up the tree, everybody drink beer, eat popcorn and look TV !!

why doesn't the eagle feed the crow baby as well ?

Me too. I was rooting for the little guy. So sad. RIP little guy💔

Diane Reynolds , I agree. Poor little thing. 😢😢💔

.....and it was accidental, they didn’t suffocate the baby crow intentionally......

Yes...I agree, too. Sweet little crowlet.

@@beatricecallan They actually intentionally did that...

Melinda, I feel the baby crow had a good chance to live if the mother eagle would have just fed him. They said that he was just 4 days from fledging & if he had been fed, he might have flown away tomorrow or Monday. I follow Lady Hawk on 3 of her eagle nests, Big Bear, NEFL & SWFL. I'd like to think if this mother eagle (who I just saw for the 1st time yesterday) could have been Harriet or Gabriella, they would have been observant enough to see the little baby with his mouth wide open, asking for food. But I know nothing about this nest or any of the parent's behavior patterns. Gabby & Harriet (& Jackie from Big Bear) are great mothers & might have kept this baby crow alive long enough for it to fly away with it's parents. I also follow Lady Hawk's Royal Cam Albatross channel in New Zealand with the baby Pippa & her parents OGK and YRK. In that nest the parents must regurgitate the squid straight into Pippa's mouth. As you well know, baby eagles are being fed fresh fish within the first 24 hours of life. I'm not 100% sure how baby crows are fed. As babies, do they eat like eagles (whole food) or like the baby albatross, Pippa with regurgitated food from the parents? If they only eat regurgitated food, then you are right, the baby crow had almost zero chance of living. But if he could have eaten what the eaglet was eating, then all it took was this mother eagle to see that he was also very hungry & share with him. I am very saddened by his slow death & prayed for a better outcome. Thank you for your input, a fellow bird (actually all living creatures) lover in San Diego.

also is fed in same way as eagle chicks and similar beaks so better chance of sustaining parental instinct @Sarah Littlefield

@Jennifer i think they wanted to feed him but didnt know how.

They were already at war with each other.

@@Jimmy82102000 yes but now the crows are not going to be nice ...poor baby crow it suffered im crying

She was very agitated looking for it, but wow I thought it had buried it like she would have done with her own, but it was a horrible ending. I can’t get over it...😥😱😔

B C Momma Eagle afterwards buried the crowlet as if it was her own baby.....

@@beatricecallan did you see the part where she dragged it out and ate and fed it to Quebec? I won’t get that memory out of my head for a while.... 😢

Most birds have a poor sense of smell, and it may have been the crow's father, as male and female are identical.

​@@beatricecallan Birds do not bury their dead, ever see a crow or eagle with a shovel? They usually eat them.

The fact that she didn’t kill it within 5 minutes says a lot.

Hi CC - that is great you are going through some of these older videos!! Yes this was a different story and outcome - one we did not think would end well due to the mechanics of how an eagle feeds its young and how a crow feeds its young. There was no bonding or relationship with the eaglet and crowlet baby like Malala and Junior. Mom eagle did try to offer food to the crowlet but she did not know how to put the food down the throat the crowlet which is how its own Mother feeds it. The eagles offer food to their young and they grab it from Mom- so all the crowlet knew to do was open its mouth wide and cry out. Junior and Malala did have a special relationship and bond - one we may never get the chance to witness again! Thank you for sharing the tribute video for those that have not seen it. Take care my friend & God bless! ♥

@@ladyhawk No problem, Lady Hawk. I feel honored and blessed to have seen such an amazing thing happen. The other day, a video was suggested by YT, and it was for the Gabriola nest. I saw Dr. Sasse's pinned comment, and left one thanking him, etc. I had no idea the video was posted by Pam. I just thought that it was someone from Dr. Sasse's affiliations, because of the pinning, etc. Pam did respond to my comment about posting a link to your tribute video. She said she had others on the way, but, that she has been super busy. I guess they get a lot more cars hitting animals during these months, etc. I put the suggestion in there as there were so many questions. I thought that neither she, nor Dr Sasse, would want to be grouped together with those who post videos of horrendous behavior, in birds, which we know is natural to their species. Those people don't give explanations, etc. Just exploitation. But, it solicits hatred for the birds in their videos. Intended or unintended. It just irks me! So, now knowing who I was speaking with, I responded. In that comment I also suggested that at the very least, if she had the time, to post her heartfelt statement that she gave after Junior's death, which you so kindly put into your video, with the title beginning "Heartbreaking News" 💔 I asked if there were any sightings of Malala or the parents, and mentioned how so many people were asking and still grieving. I posted that second comment, yesterday, and have not heard back from her, as of yet. I will post a comment, if I do hear anything, here, or, with the next old video I view. Be well, and be blessed! 😻

Yes we all hoped that this would be a miracle again like the RTH in the eagle nest Spunky who fledged successfully.

I'm bias..I love eagles and not fond of crows.

@@samwright285 It was more the fact that it was a BABY, and starved and suffocated to death. Died a slow death. Brought to the nest AS FOOD originally, would have been more humane to just eat it right away.

@@recoveringsoul755 you are right..Point taken.

@@samwright285 I'm not really a big fan of eagles, they're boring and eat other little creatures...including birds... Crows are much better and cute, they can even be loyal pets!

People can be cruelest on earth . Without them this planet earth will always be beautiful and clean

Always cruel

One of the parent eagles went in a crows nest and took a baby out of the nest to bring it in their nest?

@@Jimmy82102000 yes

dad Eagle brought it in

Robin Pierce That’s true