Finally, I was able to see the head of a baby on the eagle’s nest in my neighborhood on 2/11. He still had gray fuzz on his head. This nest has been really annoying this year. They rebuilt it farther back on the tower and the nest has sunken in quite a bit. And so many sticks “sticking” up in the way. But I was glad to see at least one baby!
It looks like one of the parents was adding to the nest.
Both parents together on the nest on a sunny morning.
This was the view from the other side of the nest. You can really see where it was sinking in the middle so the babies are hidden far down in the bowl.
At this point there was always one parent on guard on the tower.
One morning I saw an eagle on the big pine tree in front of the Oldsmar pier. He spent a lot of time up here last year but this was this first time seeing him here this year.
Flybys close to the nest included a pelican and osprey. There is an osprey nest close by the eagle’s nest and the osprey will fly close but the eagles always yell at them and they take off.
I heard the pileated woodpecker screaming as he landed on top of the utility pole right in front of where I was standing at the nest. I quickly snapped this and off he went again. I hear them screaming all over the neighborhood.
One of the many osprey nest in the neighborhood. This one is a few towers down from the eagle’s nest. I caught them bringing in padding for the nest. This one is pretty far away.
A full moon before dark.
Bald Eagles are nesting here too. It is amazing the way that populations have recovered in recent years and a cause for great celebration. Ospreys will begin to arrive back here any day now and they too will be sprucing up their nests in preparation for another breeding season.
Great captures.
It was always exciting to finally catch sight of the first eaglet in our local Florida nest, even though there was often a week or more of signs such as “tenting” and bringing in prey.
Beautiful shots. Love the eagles.
Great captures. You sure have a lot of big bird action at that site.
That’s exciting news about the eaglet! Interesting how the towers have turned out to be good bird nesting sites.
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amazing captures
Birds and we all build nests wherever we can in this world but somehow the beautiful pine tree seems like it would make a more comfy home.
Awwww, so cool to see the baby.
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Eagles and babies….nice job!