Happy Christmas, macdoun! And thanks so much for the link to the video! Hard to believe it's already time for some eagles in North America to be laying eggs.

The Sutton Center in Oklahoma has cams on two nests - and the one with the early eggs is their nest at the Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge near Vian, Oklahoma - our thread for that nest (with some great s'caps by Debs of them incubating) is forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=270303.

The Sooner Lake nest that we've been watching for several years is in a different part of Oklahoma - and isn't likely to have eggs until early February, though one never knows. Our thread for Sooner Lake is forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=270308.

My husband brought this to my attention:

See gull take on eagle in mid-air piggyback attack

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GULLS are utterly fearless, as shown by this remarkable image of a white-tailed eagle under attack.

Read more here:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... ttack.html

Here are links to two different stories of eagles that were taken to the WCV...both suffering from lead poisening!!


This one also contains a video.

http://www.wavy.com//dpp/news/local_new ... le-rescued


Scroll down to the last entry...

http://www.wildlifecenter.org/wp/2011/1 ... ald-eagle/

Another story about bald eagles and lead!

Darren Pittman



HILDEN — Helene Van Doninck is tired of treating eagles for lead poisoning.

Van Doninck, a veterinarian who operates the Cobequid Rehabilitation Centre, a charitable organization that provides care to sick, injured and orphaned wildlife, said she sees cases of lead poisoning in eagles and other birds every year.

In December, she treated two eagles that eventually died.

"Every eagle we’ve had has some levels of lead," she said


READ THE REST HERE

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia ... ens-eagles

A 2 year old bald eagle flew into the windshield of a truck and was rescued and taken to Mountainaire Avian Rescue Centre on Vancouver Island. Miraculously the eagle wasn't injured. Click the link below for the story on CHEK News with Dean Stoltz.

Bald Eagle Survives

Another sad eagle story having to do with lead!!! Hopefully this hunter will change his ammunition...at least he did the right thing!!


http://thegazette.com/2012/01/05/sick-e ... er-hunter/

Canadian transplants bring U.S. bald eagle back from the brink


Bald Eagle On Mountaintop
Photograph by: Pamela Joe McFarlane, Getty Images/iStockphoto

By Randy Boswell, Postmedia News January 4, 2012

This article was published in the Vancouver Sun:

The bald eagle — the U.S. national bird and a species on the brink of extinction in the lower 48 states just a generation ago — is now thriving again in the heartland of the American Revolution thanks to a series of transplants from Canada.

New Jersey has become the latest U.S. state to celebrate the majestic raptor's revival, with wildlife officials announcing a "milestone" achievement of 100 nesting pairs at the start of 2012 — nearly all of which are descended from the 60 eaglets imported from the bird's healthier Canadian habitats since the 1980s.

Some of the individual birds introduced from this country may yet be alive and counted among New Jersey's current bald eagle population.

Eagles have been known to live beyond 30 years in the wild.

"The recovery of the bald eagle from one nesting pair in an isolated swamp in southern New Jersey in the early 1980s to more than 100 pairs today is a truly remarkable success story," the state's environmental protection commissioner, Bob Martin, said in a statement after the release of a report last month that found 102 pairs nesting in the state.

Read more here:

Bald Eagle Transplants

Orlean residents Jinx and Fred Fox spotted this eagle on Crest Hill Road Christmas Day. Photo by Fred Fox


Lead from shotgun pellets is poisoning area bald eagles

Orlean residents Jinx and Fred Fox spotted this eagle on Crest Hill Road Christmas Day. Photo by Fred Fox

This story doesn’t have a happy ending.

On Dec. 29, a Virginia conservation officer from the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries rescued a bald eagle and brought it to the Wildlife Center in Waynesboro.

The veterinary staff there quickly determined that the bird, which had been found down in a field, unable to fly, was suffering from lead poisoning.


Read the rest of the story here

http://www.fauquier.com/index.php/news/ ... ald_eagles