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Hays Eagles Moved Throughout the River


Hays bald eagle nest at Glen Hazel, 24 April 2025 (photograph by Dana Nesiti)

30 April 2025

When the Hays bald eagles didn’t nest in Hays Woods this spring, eagle watchers had been puzzled. The Hays nest tree had fallen final 12 months however certainly the pair would construct in one other tree on the identical hillside. The urge to nest is biologically crucial for bald eagles and it was exhausting to think about the pair had utterly left the realm. So the place had been they?

About two weeks in the past, hunches on their whereabouts started to repay. By 19 April Dana Nesiti and Wendy (Eaglestreamer) had discovered the nest in Glen Hazel, throughout the river and upstream from the Hays website. Subject marks on the adults proved they’re the identical female and male as final 12 months’s Hays pair and, even higher, they’ve been bringing meals to the nest and bowing in feeding-the-chicks mode.

What number of chicks? On 20 April Dana made a video of the nest that solutions that query. Look intently! Two fluffy grey chicks poke their heads above the nest rim.

video embedded from Dana Nesiti Canonusr on YouTube

Inside 10 days Dana had collected much more footage and Invoice Powers of PixCams started determining how and the place to arrange a streaming digital camera for the rest of this nesting season. All the most recent developments are lined on this video from CBS Pittsburgh posted on 29 April. (Be aware: The closeup nest footage is from prior years at Hays, not from this 12 months in Glen Hazel.)

video embedded from CBS Pittsburgh on YouTube

It seems like a Glen Hazel nestcam could possibly be on-line by late December. In the meantime for the most recent information and views, try Dana’s posts at Eagles of Hays PA on Fb and his movies at Canonusr on YouTube.

Talking of sounds, the Hays eagles have moved to a brand new neighborhood, however the sound “Haze” (Glen Hazel) continues to be of their title.

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