US Fish & Wildlife Service Destroys Bald Eagle Nest near the Chesapeake

[Stinky The Clown]

http://wjz.com/seenon/eagles.nest.removed.2.942855.html



The eagles were dangerously close to an active airport so the wildlife service destroyed the nest (no chicks were there yet) to force the eagles to move closer to the Bay. They have successfully done this before.

What got me, though, was a factoid within the video report (embedded at the link, above). There are 1,100 nesting pairs of bald eagles in the Chesapeake region and they produce 1,500 chicks a year. The chicks have a survival rate of 80%. That just seems to cool and so remarkable to me.

[stevedeshazer]

1. Saw a pair yesterday

They are awesome birds.

[Gin]

2. there is an Eagle's nest in Norfolk....you can watch the nest via the Eagle cam

http://www.wvec.com/cams/eagle.html

I think there are 3 eggs.

[shireen]

3. another one at Blackwater NWR!

http://www.friendsofblackwater.org/camhtm2.html

:hi:

[stevedeshazer]

4. Cool!

I should mention that the two eagles I saw were in the Columbia River Gorge.

[BlueGADawg]

5. Rachael Carson

had it right about DDT. I think we have her to thank we can still see these guys.

[Paladin]

6. Saw My First One In The Wild Last Year

It was roosting in a tree across the South Platte River from me, here in the Denver area. Absolutely spectacular.

I am so glad that the feds take raptor preservation so seriously. Trust me, the biggest oil company's drilling operations can be curtailed by the near-by presence of an eagle nest---even an abandoned one. I know whereof I speak.....