20 January 2025
Since 2013 a male bald eagle nicknamed ‘Dad’ by his followers has nested at Pittsburgh’s Hays website. Right here he’s including sticks to the nest in November 2018.
Sadly in 2024 the nest failed when the egg broke throughout a tussle with an intruder and there have been no nestlings. Then ‘Dad’ disappeared from his territory in late August and a few feared he was useless. In the meantime a number of sub-adult eagles confirmed up.
Fortuitously Dana Nesiti (Eagles of Hays PA) was taking images on the viewing website in grey and rain on Saturday morning, 18 January, when an grownup eagle got here in, perched, and flew. Dana’s in-flight photographs present that this chook has ‘Dad’s distinctive traits: a wing hole and a stubby talon.
It didn’t take lengthy to unfold the comfortable information. ‘Dad’ eagle is again!
Together with his return hope is renewed for a profitable nesting season although it’s already late January. As Merry Wander commented on Fb:
…and Dad solely wants 4 days to whip this place into form…
Woo hoo!
p.s. For those who aren’t on Fb you gained’t be capable of see Dana’s whole Fb message. I’ve quoted it under.
“1-18-2025 Received to the path whereas it was nonetheless darkish and was in a position to see a eagle within the cam tree with binoculars. Whereas I used to be watching that eagle it flew out at 7:22am and circled the river a pair occasions earlier than flying downstream. It seemed to be a sub grownup. I continued down the path to the nest space and took my pack off and was going to get arrange. One other eagle was flying down the hillside which seemed like a sub grownup and it had a grownup eagle chasing it. They did some maneuvers and in addition flew downstream. It was nonetheless darkish and my digicam was in my backpack.
“At 9:20am a eagle came visiting the hill and landed within the slanty tree space and sat for a couple of minutes. When it flew we have been shocked. This eagle seems to be the unique Hays male “dad”. I’m 99.999% certain it’s. What do you assume?
“EDIT: Taking a look at different pictures from the flight of the hill, we are able to see the highest wonky feather and his stubby talon. I’m saying 100% the unique male!!
“There haven’t been any indicators of nest constructing that we’re conscious of and the previous week there have been a number of totally different sub grownup eagles hanging round. Sorry for the dangerous high quality pics because the sky was drab and wet.“
— quoted from Eagles of Hays PA on Fb, 18 Jan 2025
Observe Eagles of Hays PA on Fb for extra information of the Hays bald eagles.
