I was tidying up the folder where I prepare pictures for the blog and discovered that when I posted the other bald eagle pictures, I missed one of my favorites.
This shot was (obviously) taken just as the leaves were starting to sprout in earnest. It's the last clear picture I got of the pair before the foliage totally obscured my view. They were perched in a tree right behind and looking over my sister's house. People would stop their cars out front to try and photograph them.
I don't know if this is the pair that had the nest disaster or not, but one of the eagle nests out on the peninsula crashed out of its tree in a wind storm and landed on a baby, breaking its wings. It's at a really good rehab center, but the prognosis for returning it to the wild is pretty iffy at this point. Those huge nests can weigh hundreds of pounds. Let's keep our fingers crossed for that (not so) little eaglet.
2 comments:
Oh no. Our local zoo has two eagles that were rescued and living out in the zoo.
Sheila
Poor little eaglet ! I hope they can help it. And, nice pic of the eagles in the tree. Leaves do complicate the view sometimes. :^)
Hugs to ya from BetsyLee
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