For the last couple of weeks I have been hearing loud raptor calls around the house. “Eeeek, or Eeeep”. Very loud.
I have seen adult Bald Eagles flying through the yard and a week ago I saw one swoop into the neighboring field and get something, I don’t know what. They are fairly common around here.
I live at the edge of a major tract of evergreen forest, hemlock, Douglas Fir, Sitka spruce, and the tree line is about 150 yards from where I sit. I got home this morning and had to change a headlight in my car and it’s a beautiful day and I was in front of my garage and again I’m hearing these insistent Eeeep, Eeeep, Eeeep calls. But there is no large bird flying around to make the noise.
I look through my binoculars at the top of the tree line and see a large clump near the top of an 80 to 120 foot tree. You know, average size trees. And that is where all this noisy screeching is coming from.
I think someone needs to be fed. I am pretty sure I have a Bald Eagle’s nest with hungry critters in it. We are about a half mile from a major salmon and steelhead stream and about 2 miles from the Lower Columbia River in NW Oregon, so they chose the nesting site well.
Sorry I don’t have a lens or camera capable of sharing a picture with you right now and even through the binoculars all I see is a clump at the top of a tree that must be an eagles’s nest.
Just thought I’d share my discovery on this fine Spring morning.