Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Eagle picture of the day
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In other bald eagle news, there is a nesting pair building a huge nest in the tree growing out of our front porch. I'll try to snap some shots tomorrow.
5 Comments:
By 
, at
Wed Dec 27, 11:53:00 PM:
In our northern calfornia county we have had several pairs of bald eagle living here even where there lots of human activity like farming in fact a pair has had a nest near our small airport for several years which prooves that airport are places for all kinds of big birds SQUAWK SQUAWK
By 
Charlottesvillain, at
Thu Dec 28, 08:58:00 AM:
TH, that is very exciting news, (as the tree that housed the nest the last several years blew down and many thought the eagles would not return. Are they nesting above the PC?
Last summer I was told that eagles select their nesting trees by dropping sticks and branches from the air. If the tree catches the branches in the correct way to form a foundation, it becomes eligible for nesting. Pretty remarkable if true.
By Georg Felis, at
Thu Dec 28, 02:03:00 PM:
Now you guys are going to make me go out to Tuttle Creek and take some pics of our white-topped friends here in Kansas.
By Jamie Irons, at
Thu Dec 28, 08:12:00 PM:
Where I live, in the rural Napa Valley, Bald Eagles can be seen (rarely) at a local reservoir, where the Osprey is more commonly seen.
Having been a birder for some 50 years, it as a matter of great satisfaction to me that this marvelous creature has recently been removed from the Endangered Species Act's list of (you guessed it!) endangered species!
I still find it surprising and gratifying that a bird which I saw only four times in my first 35 years, I can now see pretty much whenever I am willing to drive a short distance. Not to mention the fact that the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, which was thought to have been extinct even before I was born, has recently been found in the swamps of Arkansas.
Loss of biodiversity my ***!
Jamie Irons
By TigerHawk, at
Thu Dec 28, 08:45:00 PM:
'Villain:
No, the nest is in the big tree growing out of the Main Camp porch.
