Back on November 1st, I’d promised to keep you updated on our eagles as they got closer to nesting season.
Well, that time is here.
Yesterday, I donned my snowshoes to trek to the lake. The very first thing I do, is take a picture of the nest to compare.
Here’s the nest last April. The nesting eagle had been quite upset at a juvenile eagle who’d been flying around the lake that day.
Here is what I saw yesterday . . .
They’ve been adding a stick here and a branch there.
Every year I worry about the weight. The wildlife biologist who’d come to band the eagles a few years ago had said it weighed approximately 700 to 800 pounds! Can you imagine!?
I saw no sign of the eagles that day, but they’ve been here. These pictures prove it.
I’m looking forward to documenting our nesting pair this year! To give you a timeline, they were sitting on eggs March 24th last year. I happened to be at the lake during one of their mating attempts a few weeks before that. And the eaglets were born a week before we opened the campground May 1st. We still have a few weeks to go!
But it’s worth the wait.
