Good eagle watching today

I spent three hours at the Manassas Eagle habitat today. You really don't realize how long you're there until you get back in the car to go home and look at the clock. It's so much fun to watch them.

Manassas eaglets were laying low today

It was very windy today so I wonder if that had anything to do it it. The eagle brought in some dry grass before we left.

Feeding time for Manassas eaglet

I could only see the Manassas Eagle in my lens so was happy to find out I had captured this picture of it feeding the eaglet tonight

Manassas eagle watching today

Spent some time at the Manassas eagle nest today. I had been watching this one in the nest for a half hour when it called its mate home.

It took less than one minute before I saw the other eagle fly in and join it's mate in the tree.

It was pretty cool to watch! I expect to see an eaglet or maybe two in a few weeks.

Manassas Eagles have an eaglet!

Well, I haven't seen an eaglet yet but I stopped by the nest yesterday and witnessed the parents feeding something in the nest. Then I watched one of the eagles as it carefully waddled into the nest as it sat down. I've watched enough eagle cams to know what that means!

Manassas Eagle fly by

We drove over to the Manassas Eagle nest this morning. One was sitting low in the nest, hopefully keeping an egg (or eggs) warm. The other was perched on a tree limb but unfortunately flew off as soon as we parked. We waited a while to see if it would come back but it wasn't meant to be today.

Manassas Eagle still here

The construction hasn't scared them away yet

Manassas Eagle habitat landscape is changing

It's just sad

Manassas Eagle habitat invasion

Thanks to social media I'd heard that construction was taking place on the land directly in front of the Manassas Eagle nest so I had to go see for myself. It's hard to see in this photo but the nest is in the tree with the branch off the right side. You can see the large pile of trees already taken down laying directly in front of the nest tree. The nest is located on park property so they won't take that tree down. Unfortunately it's right on the property line. Hopefully it won't be damaged during construction.

There used to be a line of tall trees to the right of the nest but you can see from this photo they're gone now -- probably some of the trees in the photo above. The eagles liked to perch in those trees. I have many photos of them doing just that.

And yes, there was an adult eagle in the nest when these photos were taken today.

Manassas eaglet prances

Manassas eaglets

Manassas eaglets are growing

First view of the two eaglets!

Eagle in pine tree

The Manassas Eagle usually sits in the dead trees but last weekend flew to the pine, twice

Still waiting on the eaglet to show itself

I check every weekend. Lots of activity in the nest but no eaglet yet. I expect it'll show itself by the end of March.

Manassas Eagle preening and sitting pretty

 

Manassas Eagle in flight

Dinner time at the Manassas Eagle nest

We drove over to the Manassas Eagle nest this past Saturday. It was so cold that we decided to grab some food and sit in the truck while we watched the nest and ate our lunch. When we got there, all we saw was the top of a head sitting low in the nest. Nothing happened for about 15 minutes and then out of nowhere we spotted this Eagle flying in from the right. I didn't have time to get out of the truck and focus my camera on the action so I just took a picture from inside the truck. The quality isn't good but I was happy to see that I caught it with it's talons clutching dinner.

What do Eagles do after getting frisky?

Mom goes back to the nest and the egg

And Dad goes to a nearby tree to pick at it's beak

Manassas Eagles getting frisky