[ValleyNature] notes on local bald eagle nests

[James W. Wolford]

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> From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford at eastlink.ca>
> Date: April 6, 2009 4:47:19 PM ADT
> To: naturens at chebucto.ns.ca, Richard Hennigar  
> <hennigar at xcountry.tv>, Vicki Cameron <vcameron at eastlink.ca>,  
> Vince  Brown <va.brown at ns.sympatico.ca>, Bob  Cote  
> <bob.cote at ns.sympatico.ca>, Sherman Boates <boatesjs at gov.ns.ca>,  
> Mark F Elderkin <elderkmf at gov.ns.ca>, Randy Milton  
> <miltongr at gov.ns.ca>, Dave Shutler & Adele Mullie  
> <dave.shutler at acadiau.ca>
> Subject: notes on local bald eagle nests
>
> APR. 4, 2009 - I checked on a BALD EAGLE NEST northwest of  
> Waterville (northeast of Berwick) on Mitchell Visser's York Point  
> Farms property (Mitchell's pig barn burned down a few years ago,  
> and apparently now he is a mink farmer).  The road that goes near  
> the nest is now gated, and the track to the nest is washed out, but  
> from the washout I could see with binoculars that an adult eagle  
> was indeed sitting on the nest as if incubating eggs.
>
> APR. 6, 2009 - At northeast Grand Pre I could not see any great   
> blue herons nor double-crested cormorants flying to/from their  
> nests on BOOT ISLAND.  I also could not see the BALD EAGLE NEST  
> there -- perhaps it has blown or fallen down over the winter?
>
> However, this afternoon Luke DeCicco saw 3 GREAT BLUE HERONS in the  
> Grand Pre area.
>
> I checked on 2 NEW BALD EAGLE NESTS, with help in finding them from  
> Bernard Forsythe.  First, the nest to the south of Stirling's Farm  
> Market had an adult (female?) on the nest and her mate perched  
> conspicuously nearby in a dead tree.  Second, the old red-tailed  
> hawk nest northeast of White Rock is now much larger and I could  
> easily see an adult eagle sitting on top of it (and presumably  
> incubating); this is the nest where Bernard thinks the eagles might  
> be the White Rock Pond pair, which this year is not using either of  
> their two alternate nests.  Also, as far as we know, most or all of  
> our locally nesting eagles do not have alternate nest-sites.
>
> The latter nest is at least the third local example of a red-tailed  
> hawk nest being taken over by bald eagles; the other two are the  
> Canard nest and the Eye Road nest just east of Wolfville.
>
> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville
>
> Jim (James W.) Wolford
> 91 Wickwire Ave.
> Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
> B4P 1W3
>
> phone 902-542-9204
> e-mail <jimwolford at eastlink.ca>
>
> "In wildness is the preservation of the world" -- Henry David Thoreau
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