Bald Eagle Nest: A Story of Survival in Photos
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Bald Eagle Nest - Kate Davis
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Bald Eagles can get a bad rap.
For many, they are icons and symbols, the American Eagle with all of the mythology attached. For others, Bald Eagles are quite a different creature. Their designation by Congress as the official symbol of the fledgling United States of America in 1782 was protested by Benjamin Franklin, who pointed out that the Bald Eagle is a bird of bad moral character
and one that often flees from tiny mobbing songbirds. Franklin preferred the Wild Turkey, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage.
As Arthur Bent points out in his 1937 Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey, Bald Eagles may be attractive birds but are hardly worthy of this lofty place as the national emblem. He points out their cowardly and lazy habits, diet of carrion, and theft of fish from Ospreys, traits that certainly do not exemplify the best in American behavior.
But the family of Bald Eagles I watched throughout 2011 in Montana belies that bad reputation. Both parents were superb pro viders, patient and thorough at feeding time, and nearly always lingering somewhere in the background with a keen eye on the enormous nest in a Ponderosa Pine. Their offspring almost seemed polite, allowing siblings to feed, waiting their turn, rarely scrapping as young birds. This in itself would make for interesting observations, but what sets this nest apart is that it fledged four young! Only a handful of known nests