Date: 6/12/25 7:30 am From: Sarah Dandridge via groups.io <sarahpdandridge...> Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Bald Eagles in Piedmont
You can’t miss the Moraga spit- last street corner heading east on south
side with excited birders in a gaggle.
On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM Hilary Powers via groups.io <hilary=
<salamanderfeltworks.com...> wrote:
> On 6/12/2025 12:15 AM, Elsa Alvear wrote:
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> 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.
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> - Elsa
>
> On Jun 11, 2025, at 7:18 PM, Hilary Powers via groups.io
> <hilary...>
> <hilary...> wrote:
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> 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:
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> 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 parent Bald 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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