Date: 6/12/25 7:04 am From: Hilary Powers via groups.io <hilary...> Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Bald Eagles in Piedmont
On 6/12/2025 12:15 AM, Elsa Alvear wrote: > GPS point for the location on Moraga, please? Can't say exactly. I saw scopes pointing over the houses across the street from the corner of Moraga and Monte and half a block in either direction - like a huge theater with only a couple of rows of seats. Which is a good thing - the size of the viewing area helps keep the nest from becoming a parking and crowding nightmare for the neighborhood. > > - Elsa > >> On Jun 11, 2025, at 7:18 PM, Hilary Powers via groups.io >> <hilary...> wrote: >> >> It also helps that the perfect viewing point is outside the >> cemetery entirely, up on Moraga. From there, the nest is at eye >> level, far enough away to avoid disturbing the occupants but close >> enough for comfortable binocular viewing - and to count feathers >> stuck on the sides if you look through a scope (of which there were >> several when I arrived with mine a few days ago). It was a happy >> chatty party, with community members and visiting birders, while I >> was there.... >> >> On 6/11/2025 6:30 PM, Lee Friedman via groups.io wrote: >>> >>> It is important that all birders exercise good judgment in order not >>> to disturb the nesting Bald Eagles at Mountain View Cemetery. The >>> nest itself and the parents’ roosting spots are high above the >>> ground, which is good. But it won’t be long before the eaglets will >>> start learning how to move about, fly and hunt, and they will need >>> their space to do this. It works in their favor that_the cemetery is >>> only open for recreational purposes (including birding) on >>> Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays_. >>> >>> Photographs of the two parentBald Eagles and the two eaglets >>> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/99583878@N06/albums/72177720326820649/>in >>> their nest at Mountain View Cemetery may be seen by clicking the link. >>> >>> What an exciting event for the East Bay! >>> >>> Good (unobtrusive) birding, >>> >>> Lee Friedman >>> >>> --
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