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Friday, February 15. 2008

Eagle Eggs

Large birds of prey lay their eggs early. A nest at Blackwater Refuge in Maryland already has two eggs. The Live Eagle Cam is here.

A friend of a friend took this photo of eaglets in the Adirondacks two springs ago:

 

Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation, Our Essays at 09:53 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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How did your friend get the shot without being clawed by eagle parent? Helicopter? Telephoto?
#1 retriever on 2008-02-15 10:30 (Reply)
From a scaffold, built to add eggs to the nests from elsewhere to build up the northeast Bald Eagle population. The tactic has been extremely effective.
#1.1 BD on 2008-02-15 10:34 (Reply)
Young ones, put just look at the size of those peckers!
#2 Anonymous on 2008-02-15 10:36 (Reply)
wow -- what a pic -- thanks!
#3 buddy larsen on 2008-02-15 10:42 (Reply)
Evidence of large birds of prey in the Ohio snow yesterday
http://home.att.net/~rhharding/snow012.jpg

They were across my porch this morning.

They stalk corn.
#4 Ron Hardin (Link) on 2008-02-15 11:43 (Reply)
I have seen lots of ospreys with nests on the pilings that ferry boats use to dock. As the boats pull up, passengers can look right into the nest from a few feet away. The birds fo not seem to mind. They come back year after year.
#5 Patina on 2008-02-15 12:24 (Reply)
Pitchers and catchers are pouring into spring training camps... my osprey will be back from Venezuela in 6 or 8 weeks... Life is looking even better these days.
#6 Knucklehead (Link) on 2008-02-15 15:37 (Reply)
heh -- i knew the famous Knuck ospreys would make an appearance -- nice --
#6.1 buddy larsen on 2008-02-15 16:10 (Reply)

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