[Bristol-Birds] SF Holston River eaglets and adults still tight on territory.
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:18:51 -0400
Photos by Bob Cheers
Saturday evening, 28 July 2012, several of us
gathered at the South Fork Holston River
Bald Eagle breeding locality up stream from
Bluff City in Sullivan Co., TN.
Earlier that morning, Bob & Alice Cheers had
come up empty trying to find eagles at the
site.
By the time we had all arrived, the two eaglets
were perched in the evening sun in the top of
the "staging" tree a few hundred yards from
the nest site.
Before the day was over, we were able (for
the first time in a long while) to see both
fledglings and both adults in the area and get
them all counted.
One adult flew about in the vicinity of the nest.
Karen Morrell was able to find the other almost
a mile up stream perched on the same limb
where our stopover Osprey "One" spends nearly all its time in April.
These photo represents Bob's first attempt ever at digiscoping and he did very
well. Due to
the enlargement of these photos they appear more soft (out of focus) then the
original photos
appeared when he sent them to me.
Those present Saturday were: Alice Cheers, Bob Cheers, Carolyn Coffey, Wallace
Coffey,
David Morrell and Karen Morrell.
I checked the staging tree early today (31 July 2012) and both young were
perched there.
Let's go birding . . . .
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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