Pam Happy New Year and thanks for the up date. I never realized that was the name of the road either (cool)

Larry

Thanks Larry


Well the weather has been less than desirable as of late. Although I can drive past most of my nests, the rain and snow have prevented me from doing any photography.

With the Fraser river rising, I would say that most of the eagles have left this area. The nest beside the railroad in Matsqui, has residents nearby most times that I have driven past. I have spotted one eagle near the Hatsic lake nest on Eagle rd.

As soon as it's dry again, I will be out with the camera and more notes on the nests.

I have finally made it back out... Today was windy but the sun was shining. I grabbed a hot timmy's and headed out to the nests.
My first stop was at the Mission bridge star. On several occaisons over the last couple of weeks, I have seen a pair in the nesting tree as I drove over the bridge. They weren't in the tree today, but they were close making claims on the fields nearby.

The nest has held up well in the winds.


One in one tree...



One in the other tree across the road...

I headed up Hwy 11, between Bateman rd and Valley rd.. I don't have this marked on the map at the begining of this thread, but I have mentioned it a few times. In the past there was only one nest. For whatever reason they abandoned it and moved over a couple of trees. They were both sitting pretty in the new nesting tree when I arrived.


Old nest on the left.. Happy occupants of the new nest on the right...



A railway runs right underneath the tree.. But they don't seem to mind the noise.

I decided to see what was happening at my main nest on the Matsqui Trail.. I headed down Page rd, I was rewarded with a Beauty sitting in the field.
That's Mission in the background.

After watching the eagle sit in the field *this is a random eagle and not my nesting buddies, I drove on... Brrrrrrrrrr it was alot colder on the river than I had thought. Bundled up. Headed up the trail.. I could see the perching tree and I spotted that white tail and head right off the bat, but I couldn't see any others around..



I kept walking towards the nest. I stopped on the trail to get a shot of the nest, when Whhhhhhooooooooooosh... INCOMING!!


It all happened so fast, I had no time to properly focus...

I am amazed at how easily such a large bird can fly through the branches and not wipe out!


This was the eagle, who just seconds earlier was in the perching tree..


I didn't even see the mate come flying in from behind me, I was too busy trying to capture the first one.