Bald & Beautiful!

Look who's back in the nest!  A pair of Bald Eagles are nesting just a few miles away. 
It is easy to spot the nest from the road, because it is huge! 

Here are some "cool facts" about the Bald Eagle from The Cornell Labs  

• Bald Eagles have been known to play with plastic bottles and other objects pressed into service as toys. One observer witnessed six Bald Eagles passing sticks to each other in midair.
• The largest Bald Eagle nest on record, in St. Petersburg, Florida, was 2.9 meters in diameter and 6.1 meters tall. Another famous nest—in Vermilion, Ohio—was shaped like a wine glass and weighed almost two metric tons. It was used for 34 years until the tree blew down.
• Immature Bald Eagles spend the first four years of their lives in nomadic exploration of vast territories and can fly hundreds of miles per day. Some young birds from Florida have wandered north as far as Michigan, and birds from California have reached Alaska.
• Bald Eagles occasionally hunt cooperatively, with one individual flushing prey towards another.
• Bald Eagles can live a long time. The oldest recorded bird in the wild was at least 38 years old when it was hit and killed by a car in New York in 2015. It had been banded in the same state in 1977.

You can learn more about these majestic birds and hear their calls by visiting The Cornell Lab's website All About Birds.

Maybe we'll even catch sight of some hatchlings this year!  Fingers crossed!