Big Bear Eagle Cam: Sonny bird hovers!

Why don't you humans get a life and stop staring at us?

(KCAL News) Big Bear bald eaglets getting ready to spread wings and fly from nest for first time

• Wow! Sunny's incredible hover off high perch ✈️ almost fledges, slo-mo Big Bear @FOBBVCAM, May 29, 2025
• Fledge? Fledging is the stage in a flying animal's life between birth (hatching) and becoming capable of flight. This term is most frequently applied to birds...

Big Bear Bald Eagle Live Nest - Cam 1

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ℹ The nest is located in Big Bear Valley in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California. It is about 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine tree. It is the current home for parents Jackie and Shadow, a local bald eagle pair. ℹ What's happening at the nest? Follow: 🔴LIVE Recap bit.ly/3Md8TSz 🔵 Wide View - Cam 2: youtube.com/live/LCGYWfbyBWc 🔗To donate friendsofbigbearvalley.org/donate. 🔗Shop friendsofbigbearvalley.org/shop 🔗Big Bear Eagle History friendsofbigbearvalley.org. 🔗Public Facebook page facebook.com/FOBBV 🔗Private Facebook group facebook.com/groups/fobbv 🔗Instagram instagram.com/fobbv.office... 🔗Weather forecast bensweather.com 🗨 Chat sessions will be announced pending availability of volunteer moderators. While chat is closed, we will continue to keep everyone informed via 🔴 LIVE Recap & Live Commentary.

• Fledge Watch: WOW!; Big Bear Bald Eagle Nest LIVE; KCAL News, May 29, 2025; Xochitl, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Fledgling bald eagles finally fly (video)

Bald Eagle Fledging Day: A Stunning Milestone in the Nest

BIG BEAR LAKE, Southern California - When, O, when will our birds fly above the foothills, above the City of Lights that is Los Angeles? Jackie and Shadow have gone through so much already, losing baby Brutus, selling off the naming rights to the others. It's time to take to the air and become fledglings.

Sonny 'n Gizmo at 10 Weeks, it's time to fly

Bald eaglets Sonny and Gizmo getting ready to spread wings and fly from Big Bear nest

(KCAL News) May 9, 2025: Nicole Comstock reports from Big Bear, where wildlife enthusiasts say that the bald eaglets are getting ready to spread their wings and fly from the nest for the first time.

How to party before the Super Bowl

PR: We could get more viewers if we add a love interest: Nazi Barbie loves Trey Kay

Chris Farley, seen here with some post-Maloney baloney on his face, is asking, Are you ready?

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50 Cent's comedy block party: to heck with Puffy

Here's every 2025 Super Bowl party: 20 events including tailgate parties, Post Malone concert, and more (EssentiallySports).

Super Bowl weekend is packed with 20 must-hit events, from high-energy tailgates to A-list concerts! Catch Post Malone live, party with Maxim, or dive into Guy Fieri’s FlavorTown feast—New Orleans is the place to be. Get in on the excitement at least in your dreams.

Meanwhile, in Iowa Slipknot get ready to practice

Drugs are good, I mean bad, Kids. Stay off 'em.

You'll be sitting fat on the couch, sprouting, getting ready to be deep fried as the country uses the Big Game as an excuse to party. The Gladiators are ready. The Coliseum has been cleaned up, and the Christians are ready for a sporting chance against the Lions. (Edgar Cayce would never approve of this).

"Are you ready for some football?" asks Chris Farley. And we answer, "H no," but it doesn't matter. The bandwagon is too loud and too full of partygoers, cheerleaders, and math nerds learning to gamble on statistical probabilities as if sports were not rigged to profit the few while depleting the many.

• Every 2025 Super Bowl party: football events

They say "religion is the opiate of the masses," but it really seems organized sports serve that function in the modern U.S. Preparation for war, obedience training for doggs (and not those cute ones from the Puppy Bowl), observer activities over doing anything, learning to cheerlead, gamble, and drink, not to mention a diet to die for. At least no one's paying attention to Trump, who is so not able to stand the loss of attention that he will be at the big game sucking spotlight from Mahomes.

• EssentiallySports, ; The Daily Show (roundup), Comedy Central; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Joe Walsh love song: "Seems To Me" (video)

Joe Fidler Walsh, James Gang, 1971 (via Beat-Club); Rob Squad Reactions; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

James Gang: "Walk Away"

(Beat-Club) The James Gang (featuring Joe Fidler Walsh) was a rock band that formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1966. Though the band was not a huge commercial success outside of their home area, the fame garnered by guitarist Joe Walsh has since made the group more notable. Walsh later joined a famous California rock band -- the cocaine cowboys The Eagles -- and played guitar on their hit album and song "Hotel California." In April 1971, The James Gang released their third album, Thirds, including the live at the Beat Club performed song "Walk Away." The Third album missed a jam with Little Richard titled "But I Try," which was released only 41 years later.

Reaction

(Rob Squad Reactions) The James Gang, "Walk Away"? It's our first time hearing it. Now we know (1/8/22)! This is a channel with a passion to provide audiences with unique and funny videos and a love for all types of music from rap to heavy metal. In addition to reacting, wife Amber and I raise kids (Bria, Kiya, and Luca). We are here to try and make a change in this world starting with music that brings everyone together.

Joe became famous ("Life's Been Good")

LYRICS: "Walk Away"

Taking my time

Choosin' my line

Tryin' to decide what to do

Looks like my stop

Don't wanna get off

Got myself hung up on you

[Chorus]

Seems to me

You don't want to talk about it

Seems to me

You just turn your pretty head and walk away

Places I've known

Things that I'm growin'

Don't taste the same without you

I got myself in

The worst mess I've been

And I find myself startin' to doubt you

[Alternative chorus]

Seems to me

Talk all night, here comes the mornin'

Seems to me

You just forget what we said

And greet the day

[Chorus]

I've got ta cool myself down

Stompin' around

Thinkin' some words I can't name ya

Meet ya half way

Got nothin' to say

Still I don't s'ppose I can blame ya

[Chorus]

Walk away

"The Eagle Huntress" (video)

Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; COMMENTARY: Barbara J. King (npr.org, Jan. 28, 2016); Brandon Li (Matador Network/Unscripted.com); Seeker Stories

Still image from the documentary The Eagle Huntress. The film follows teenager (Ashol Pan) Aisholpan Nurgaiv, the first female in a traditionally male role, as she trains a golden-eagle chick to hunt in Mongolia (Asher Svidensky/Kissaki Films).

(Matador Network) Filmmaker Brandon Li and his producer (unscripted.com) went out on a limb to make this video, spending several weeks living with ethnically Kazakh eagle hunters on the Russian/Mongolian border in their traditional yurts. Living in the wild also as nomads, we see their daily activities of training eagles to hunt, herding yaks, and racing camels. Moving every 3-10 days to cover ground as travel-filmmakers, they saddle up and enjoy the ride. See more: Instagram and Facebook: facebook.com/RunGunShoot.

 

Teenage "Eagle Huntress" overturns 2,000 years of male tradition

Fly, extension-of-my-arm! (BBC.com)

The Eagle Huntress, a documentary film set in Mongolia directed by Otto Bell and starring teenager (Ashol Pan) Aisholpan Nurgaiv, debuted [Jan. 24, 2016] at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

With its focus on a charismatic girl who has accomplished something other women have not in 2,000 years -- she hunts on horseback with the help of a golden eagle -- the film has earned standing ovations.

(On Native Ground) Sundance Film Festival 2016, Danny DeLeon, Alex Greenlee, Jack Kohler

 

Aisholpan's family members are nomadic Kazakh herders of the Altai mountains region who base their subsistence economy on herding cattle and goats.
 
An essential supplement to the herders' livelihood comes from the practice of training golden-eagle chicks to become their close partners in the hunting of foxes and other small mammals used for food and clothing.

 

This specialized hunting practice -- woven into the fabric of everyday life and celebrated at regional competitions -- has been an entirely male endeavor throughout its history, passed down in families from generation to generation.

(Seeker Stories) "Who Are The Eagle Hunters Of Mongolia?" A small Kazakh tribe in Mongolia's Altai Mountains hunts with a rather unusual tool: the golden eagle. Meet the world's last eagle hunters and their trusted companions.

Now, just as climate [chaos] threatens this way of life and as only 250 eagle hunters remain in Mongolia, Aisholpan is coming to the world's attention as the first woman eagle huntress.

 

I sat down at Sundance for a wide-ranging conversation with Aisholpan; her father, Nurgaiv Rys; her mother, Alma Dalaykan; and also Otto Bell. Aisholpan's cousin, Baldygryn Baidola, translated. As a young child, Nurgaiv told me... More + AUDIO:

• AUDIO: Sundance Favorites: "The Eagle Huntress"

• VIDEO: Al Gore's money-making lies exposed by Congress 
• AUDIO: Al Gore's failed global warming alarmism/scare campaign (The Bolt Report, Australia)
• VIDEO: Dr. Happer destroys climate hysteria in 7 mins
• VIDEO: Global Warming? 31,487 scientists say NO to alarm 
• VIDEO: How the global alarm began (John Coleman)

A great scientist named Roger Revelle had Al Gore in his class at Harvard and the global warming campaign was born. Revelle tried to calm things down years later, but Gore said Revelle was senile and refused to debate. John Coleman documents the entire story and shows how our tax dollars are perpetuating the global warming alarmist campaign even though temperatures have not risen in years and year.

Coming up behind Ashol Pan is Bahak Birgen, the youngest male eagle hunter (BBC.com).

New sport: soaring with birds over Nepal!

Wisdom Quarterly; Siddharth Gupta, Travel/BBC.com

A new sport is born!

On a Himalayan mountainside, more than a dozen paragliding pilots were preparing to take off and ride the thermals over Nepal.

But I didn’t come here to see traditional paragliding. I came to witness parahawking -- that is, paragliding alongside trained birds of prey.

The unlikely sport was founded in 2001 by Scott Mason (pictured), a British paraglider and bird lover who wound up caring for an injured black vulture during a visit to Nepal.

In doing so, Mason learned that Asia’s vulture population was plummeting. An anti-inflammatory drug called Diclofenac that was being administered to sick livestock was also killing the vultures feeding on the animals’ carcasses. To raise awareness of the creatures’ plight, Mason founded, which offers people the chance to paraglide with the threatened birds. More

Michelle Zeidman fed Kevin -- a practice the bird had learned from Mason so that his passengers could see the raptors fly up close. Zeidman wore a pouch with buffalo meat and pulled out one piece at a time, keeping it hidden between her gloved thumb and forefinger. Mason blew a whistle, she extended her arm, and incredibly, the bird swooped in... (BBC)

• The Parahawking Project: parahawking.com

Bald Eagles, Condors, and the Beach (video)

Dev, CC Liu, Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Mari Wirta (via Sonocarina); NPR.org

Releasing a California condor into the wild after lead poisoning (ventanaws.org)

Black Sand Beach or Vík í Mýrdal, south coast of Iceland (Mari Wirta/epod.usra.edu)

  

When we were mermaids

The black sand and pebble beach near the town of Vik i Myrdal, which is the southernmost settlement in Iceland. The sand originated as basalt lava that covers much of the area. Because black sand isn’t routinely replenished like most blond beach sand when storms and tides wash the it away, black sand beaches tend to be short lived.

The geology of Iceland is comparatively young -- owing its existence to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that splits the island in half. 

Venice/Santa Monica beaches, Los Angeles

Volcanoes along the ridge, such as Katla, erupt with some regularity, continuing to add surface area and mass to the “land of ice and fire” and to augment the black sand beaches. Photographed Oct. 3, 2012, Vik coordinates: 63.419444, -19.009722

California Condors to be released today!

(Tim Huntington/Vimeo) California Condors "recycle" Gray whale that washed ashore, Big Sur

Reintroducing the Condor in Big Sur

Ventana Wildlife Society (ventanaws.org)

Baby condor in nest (ventanaws)

By the 1980s, the California Condor population was in crisis, and extinction in the wild seemed certain. The dramatic decline of condors in the 20th century has been attributed to shooting (by killers who proudly call themselves sportsmen), poisoning, electric power lines, egg collecting, and habitat loss. In 1987, the last wild California Condor was taken into captivity to join the 26 remaining condors in an attempt to bolster the population through a captive breeding program. At that time, it was uncertain whether or not North America's largest flying land bird (by wingspan, 9.5 feet) would ever again soar in the wild. More

• Hunters, Ranchers help Wildlife, Condors by Using Nonlead Ammunition to Kill them Gently. Thanks, guys! (*irony*)
• VIDEO: Quick tour of the real Iceland? Watch "The Secret Life of Walter Middy" 2013

Bald Eagles of Catalina Island, California

(Catalina Island Conservancy)

The harsh winter has caused headaches for many in the Midwest, but there's a silver lining for some bird watchers looking for American bald eagles. Jenna Dooley of NPR member-station WNIJ explains how this harsh winter is helping attract them to an unusual spot in Illinois. LISTEN

Far to the west there is a nesting population within view of the Los Angeles skyline (when its visible through the smog swirling trapped by the basin).

 

The dent west of LA is Santa Monica Bay (NPR)

Those birds, affected by the pesticide DDT, are offshore on a unique island full of wildlife. Catalina's flora and fauna even includes Sasquatches and buffalo. But wild inhabitants are threatened by fire and invasive species.

As Stephen Colbert must be happy about, the eagles are landing, or at least hatching, and everyone can see it live: BALD EAGLE NEST CAM

See how it follows a male pattern in the back? I blame the DDT, which...

has left me looking like George Costanza. Don't judge (Samantha Holmes).

TV, Prescriptions Linked to Depression

Soar Like an Eagle...before reading about depression:

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Click or watch on ABC News: Television linked to Teen Depression

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Amazing Independent Hemi-spheres of the Brain: Click to see a woman who can si-multaneously write different things with two hands, or mirror image what she's writing, and can do it with her feet, too (ABC News).

CBC TV: The prescription drug Chantix (Varenicline) linked to depression and suicide

FDA, Pfizer Told of Chantix Safety Concerns
Doctor Warned Medical Community...

...Now a new report from the nonprofit organization Institute for Safe Medicine Practices cites nearly 1,000 adverse event reports associated with Chantix.

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The report has prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to ban the drug's use among commercial pilots.

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The report was the first time many people had heard of the possible pitfalls of a drug considered largely safe for the treatment of nicotine addiction, and for which over 6 million prescriptions have been written.

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The controversy over Chantix and the persistence of the complaining doctor, John Spangler, director of Tobacco Intervention Programs at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., points out loopholes and gaps in the way drugs are declared safe to use in the United States. More>>