A Pair of Bald Eagles Nesting Nearby
A few months ago I received word of a pair of bald eagles seen not too far from my home. Bald Eagle sightings are not exactly uncommon as my region is in the path for lots of birds during their spring migrations. The difference was this pair of Bald Eagles seemed to be residential rather then transient as a large nest was forming atop the cellular tower to which they were spotted. So with this information in mind each time I would pass the cell tower I would take a look hoping to see them but I would come up empty each time. I thought maybe the person who had reported the sighting to me mistook them for Osprey’s or some other larger bird of prey and what they had seen had moved on.
It was a few weeks later , almost giving up hope, that I finally spotted something atop the tower, large in size, dark in color but because of the height of the tower and distance away it was hard to tell what I was seeing so off to investigate I went. Arriving close enough to see but while not interrupting the birds I first spotted them with my binoculars. Sure enough I was seeing a pair of Bald Eagles. How cool!
Grabbing the long lens I spent a few minutes just getting something of them as proof and to show family and friends because like I said we generally don’t have eagles around here. I trained the lens on the Bald Eagles and shot what I could of them. The photographs are not going to win any awards as they are birds sitting on a ugly cell tower at a terrible angle but at least I have something of them even if it’s of them in a more urban like environment.
Now that I know the Bald Eagles are here and the nest looks like it’s active I hope to one day find them perched in a nearby tree line or in flight so that I can make some better photographs of them. Hopefully this is the first of many pairs of Eagles we’ll have residing locally. Much like how well the Osprey’s numbers have increased so too would I like to see a healthy population of Bald Eagles in the area as they really are a very cool bird of prey and seeing them outside of captivity was a really rewarding experience
