Date: 4/27/25 11:43 am From: vishnu via groups.io <vishnuvishnu...> Subject: [Mendobirds] Nesting Bald Eagles at Lake Mendocino
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
