This eaglet’s nest was built many years ago during the off season over a small campground along the Susquehanna River. The adults have successfully fledged 2-3 eaglets per year for many years despite the return of the humans each spring.
This nest was built many years ago during the off season over a small campground along the Susquehanna River. The adults have successfully fledged 2-3 eaglets per year for many years despite the return of the humans each spring. This photo was taken the first day the eaglets popped their heads up high enough to be seen.
This poor young Bald Eagle was being harrased by pair of Blue Jays.
This eaglet’s nest was built many years ago during the off season over a small campground along the Susquehanna River. The adults have successfully fledged 2-3 eaglets per year for many years despite the return of the humans each spring. This eaglet learned how pesky Blue Jays can be on the very 1st day fledging from the nest tree nearby. This Blue Jay continued his assault, squawking and repeatedly bopping the eaglet on the head and back until the eaglet realized his only escape was back into the nest tree!
This is a juvie Bald Eagle wingersizing in the nest. He has not started branching yet, but getting ready.
This eaglet’s nest was built many years ago during the off season over a small campground along the Susquehanna River. The adults have successfully fledged 2-3 eaglets per year for many years despite the return of the humans each spring. This year, on the very 1st day fledging from the nest tree nearby, this eaglet made it clear s/he understood their destiny as our national bird!
I was very lucky with this picture. Although you can’t see it, the adult eagle in the nest was clearly feeding chicks, pulling food from something at the edge of the nest and then feeding it to the chicks inside. I was taking pictures of that, and the other adult appeared right in the frame with something in its claws.
This photo was taken from a far distance with a 600mm lens so as not to disturb this active nest. I was thrilled to come upon this spectacular sight of our majestic national bird so gently feeding its newly hatched chick. From what I was told, the chick was approximately 11 days old. It is amazing how gentle they are for such a large bird. This was a once in a lifetime experience for me and I am thrilled that I was able to capture this image.
Three chicks in the nest, June 2015. The oldest chick, Endeavor is showing the younger chicks how lift off is achieved.
All 3 eaglets sit nicely for their portrait, just before they fledge.
I’ve been watching our local eagle nest for 2 years. Watched last year as the nesting began til the babies reached maturity and took to the skies. This year I was fortunate to receive a Tamron 600mm lens for Christmas which made the watching and photographing much easier (last year I only had a 300mm). My first picture of the parent on the nest was on December 24th and I watched faithfully throughout the period,trying to guess when the eggs were no longer just eggs but babies. Since I could only guess when they actually hatched (no remote cameras here), I watched til I got lucky enough to see parents bringing food and before long, heads appeared. This picture was taken on March 3 and the babies (2) were quite large by then. This pose just struck a funny bone on me as baby appears to be saying “What’s Up with you?”.
Other than Catalina Island, this is a first Los Angeles County report of an American Bald Eagle pair have successfully raised a juvenile in San Gabriel Canyon, CA
The Bald Eagle nest, the adult eagle brought in food for the Eaglet
While watching a Bald Eagle’s nest, I had only observed 2 eaglets. After a month of watching, mama eagle flew in with a fresh fish, and all of a sudden a third eaglet popped his head up, looking for some lunch! I was astonished to see all three, who, subsequently, all fledged!
This eagle nest had three juveniles, just about to fledge. They were about the same size as the adults. It appeared they still couldn’t eat on their own, as the adult brought, and dropped, a fish in the nest but the juveniles wouldn’t eat. The adult had to tear off pieces, THEN the juveniles would eat.
A pair of bald eagles has been nesting in rural Leon County, Texas for at least four years. The pine tree where they built this nest is one of only a small number of pines in the vicinity but is well suited to a bald eagle nest. Using a long lens I was able to photograph this year’s offspring still on the nest from a distance.