# Screaming baby eagles! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 3, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-baby-eagles/654747 "2013-04-03T17:47:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-baby-eagles/654747/1 "2013-04-03T17:47:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-baby-eagles/654747/2 "2013-04-03T18:45:35Z")
Tease. Pics or it didn’t happen. StG ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-baby-eagles/654747/3 "2013-04-03T19:12:02Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Tease. > > Pics or it didn’t happen. > > StG I know. I will see what I can do, this weekend. Working nights for the next few days. Maybe the camera I have can get some pictures of the parents flying into the nest. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-baby-eagles/654747/4 "2013-04-03T19:29:50Z")
Not good enough by far. Please order one of these [16" LX-200s](http://www.meade.com/lx200) from the good folks at Meade. I’ll ask all Dopers to contribute 1 dollar each to reimburse you. Surely there are enough of us by now. With the proper adapter for your camera, you now have a nice 4,000 mm lens to bring those babies in close. If it can see the Eagle Nebula, it should work on eagles, eh? Eh? Please select “overnight delivery”. Time’s a wastin’.