Recreation Dr across from Landstown Elem School Va Beach, VA. This Power Line Tower is used by a pair of bald eagles during the winter months as a daytime perch to forage for fish in pond below tower. Their nest is 1/2 mile away.
The nest is gone!! This morning it was there, but there are 4 work trucks in the parking lot and the nest is gone. I saw an osprey bringing sticks trying to build it back. Why would they destroy the nest? It has been there for years.
I'm not sure when the osprey arrived. I saw a bird on the platform a week or so ago. But yesterday I heard and saw one on the nest, (the nest is pretty skimpy looking). This morning, I saw one hovering over the lake looking for food while one was perched on the nest platform. Another one was noisily flying over the parking lot at LES. Yay, spring!
One has arrived! I haven't been able to get a close enough look, though, to establish the age nor gender. Maybe another sharp-eyed citizen scientist can.
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