BALD EAGLE shot taken on the way to coffee. Bald Eagle pairs typically raise one chick a year, though they can raise a pair. One nest I watched hatched three eggs, but the “extra” chick was forked out of the nest after a few weeks, by either a sibling or his/her parent.
I have never seen a Bald Eagle nest that was *not* in a sycamore tree near water. Sycamores are big trees, and their branches are strong enough — and far enough apart from each other — that they can support a 6-10 foot wide Eagle nest *and* allow the Eagles to take off and land without branches interfering.
Bald Eagles will feed on carrion, such as dead deer, but they are primarily fish eaters. I have seen a few feeding on cats, but I suspect the cats were most likely roadkill. As a general rule, most predators feed farther down the food chain than most imagine, as even the most minor injury to foot, claw, canine, or tendon is potentially fatal.
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I see bald eagle nests often here in the northeast. They nest near water in very large eastern white pine trees here, not typically in sycamores. They have open branching structures near the top of the significantly tall trees that can accommodate the large eagle nests.
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