Field Trip

   Recently a past president and long time member of the Ferry Bluff Eagle Council and I did a tour of the known bald eagle nests in the area.
 The Ferry Bluff nest and another nest just north of the Wisconsin River can't be viewed at this time of year, although in a recent entry I did post photos of a pair of bald eagles that I believe were from the Ferry bluff nest.
       

  We first visited the Hwy 60 nest.    
   There the nest is in good shape and an adult eagle was spotted
near by.

            

  Next was the Leland nest. The  nest is in good shape. There were no eagles in the area at
the time that we were there.




                                                                         
   Then on to the prairie
nest. Here the nest had
been moved last fall.
The thought on this is
that they may have been
adding distance between
them and the increased
human activity.
  This day there was one
eagle in the nest and the
other was off sitting on
top of a high-line pole.


   From here across the Prairie du Sac bridge. We were a little disappointed with what we found
at the Fish Lake nest. It is completely snow covered. This may mean it has been abandoned for
some reason. We'll check back in a couple weeks and hopefully they're just getting a late start.
The lake is still completely froze over.

          Now back to the Grand Ave. site. Here to our delight both eagles were in the nest.

    The haze at the Kransfelter nest didn't allow for photos but there appeared to be an eagle sitting in the nest. If this proves to be true they have returned to the nest that they abandoned a couple years ago. When they moved they had remained in the area but the new nest was out of our sight.

                                                               Off to good start!
                                    This is good site to see the color changes as they age.
                              
http://www.onthewingphotography.com/wings/2011/02/16/bald-eagles-one-to-five-years-old/