Eagle Nest

[Tony in SD]

Miss Candy is a birder. She said we need an eagle's nest. So, now we have one, about 30 feet above ground level. We selected the location to make it easy to see with a spotting scope from the house. You can see our farm is in the background. To make the job easier, I borrowed one of our companies material handler bucket trucks to lift materials and assemble it in the air. While I think I can still climb poles, I'm probably too old to work that hard anymore. I do know I'm certainly too old to fall that far. LOL

 

[38 Sears Roebuck]

Nice, will you be putting some sticks up to encourage them to build?

 

[deere4040]

We are curious where ours nest. Shot a woodchuck yesterday and within hours had 3 immature eagles of various ages. No longer is it rare to see one. Few months ago shot a woodchuck and had vultures eagle and crows all together on that one. Getting about time to drop a deer a week to keep the eagles vultures and coyotes fed

 

[joeysmith]

We are curious where ours nest. Shot a woodchuck yesterday and within hours had 3 immature eagles of various ages. No longer is it rare to see one. Few months ago shot a woodchuck and had vultures eagle and crows all together on that one. Getting about time to drop a deer a week to keep the eagles vultures and coyotes fed

Not judging just curious if thats legal where you are?

 

[Tony in SD]

Nice, will you be putting some sticks up to encourage them to build?

Yes. Got starter branch’s up but don’t have pictures of that on my iPad yet.

 

[deere4040]

Not judging just curious if thats legal where you are?

Woodchucks about to hibernate, sure hate to see wildlife go hungry when winter gets here. lol

 

[Tgrasher]

Have the good fortune of having a nest 1/2 mile south of my house, along a river edge. Farm the fields in between and am able to keep an eye on the nest, which by then, the eaglets are almost ready to fly.

 

[SkipperII]

Had an old friend that had a large snag, with an eagle nest in the top. A wind storm took it down. They found 13 pet collars in the debris.

 

[Hemmjo]

My daughter in law is the head of “raptor protection” (not sure if that is the correct title) at a multi-state power company. She gets called if any protected critter, hawk, eagle, falcon, etc. interacts with the transmission system. If one builds a nest on a pole and lays eggs before they they discover it. They have to take extreme steps to prevent electrocution. Or move the eggs to an approved facility to assure successful fledging.

They take it all very seriously.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Had an old friend that had a large snag, with an eagle nest in the top. A wind storm took it down. They found 13 pet collars in the debris.

There was a nest by an orchard out in Washington that had a small terrier looking over the side of it. Well, thought it was until I realized it was only half the dog.

Also met a girl that still had gashes in her skull from when a bald eagle tried to take her from her play pen. I'll see if I can find the article that was in the local rag.

Mike

 

[Northvale PA]

On several occasions, when one of our ewes has a new born lamb there will be an eagle perched nearby. I don’t know if the eagles smell them, hear them or see them. Normally the lambs are born in the barn so that rules out seeing them. We haven’t lost any yet, likely due to our dogs being around.

 

[dixon boy RL]

i have been scouting eagle nest forlast couple years doing it again this year have 12 currently following and scouting to find others, last season the nests i followed thru the season all raised three fledgings. this is for the dnr. they are way more seen now in my area cause of all the dumpsters with dead hogs in them. i have a new nest this year that has been built just east my house about 3/4 mile. the tree its built in is actually dead one leaning into another tree will see how long this tree will stay up. still have to do all the legal stuff for that nest to get it on record, some of the nest been doing have been ther since mid sixties which i find really hard to beleive,but once they build it will usually stay active for years unless storrn takes it down or it gets full of mites.

 

[Hemmjo]

Speaking of dead Hogs, did you hear about the hog barn fires in Ohio last night? Feb 25, 2026