Date: 4/27/25 11:52 am From: Kitty & Creek Norris via groups.io <calnorris70...> Subject: Re: [Mendobirds] Nesting Bald Eagles at Lake Mendocino
Oh, that is so sad!
Kitty
> On Apr 27, 2025, at 11:43 AM, vishnu via groups.io <vishnuvishnu...> wrote:
>
> This is a report of observations made on 4/24/2025 between 6:30 and 9:00 pm.
>
> On the hillside above the south end of the dam at L. Mendocino a pair of bald eagles has had a nest for several
> years as I understand it, although this is the first year I've been aware of it. The nest could be easily observed from the southern portion of the dam
> and 2 chicks were observed by me on April 16th. Unfortunately, this past Thursday, early evening April 24, the nest collapsed from the top of the dead conifer snag
> where it had been built and fell to the ground. I saw that this had occurred around 6:30 pm on 4/24 and observed only one adult eagle flying in the immediate area of the
> nest tree and a few times landing on the tree.
> Fish & Wildlife and a bird rescue center in SR were notified but no one was available at that late hour to visit the scene and
> check it out. A friend who knew the trailhead leading to the nest area was able to get to the base of the nest tree just at dark that evening and found, & photographed,
> the 2 chicks, already dead in the debris. I haven't been back out to the dam since Thursday and don't know anything more about the 2 adult eagles.
> Vishnu
>
