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THANKS, Paul, for referring to the PBS “NOVA” doc’ called “EAGLE POWER” shown a week ago today. That point about the black-flies was instructive, yes, but I wish to recall two items that were disappointing to me. First, I was surprised that in the high Asian mountains the narrator misidentified obvious ravens and called them crows, when they were interacting with an eagle over access to carrion. The other separate and more important item to me was when they talked about needing to produce more bald eagles after their experience with DDT and thin-shelled eggs. The narrator referred to young eagles (from where?) and putting them back into existing eagle nests to be raised there and fledge etc. To my knowledge, nearly all of the young eagles came from existing nests like those in Cape Breton on Bras d’Or Lake, and the stolen eaglets (about a month old, all from different nests), were “hacked” by wildlife officials by using falconers’ technique of placing the youngsters in a hack-box, in a location chosen for the eaglets to become imprinted for their own future breeding, provided with food in a way that the eaglets didn’t know where the food was coming from, and then eventually allowed to fledge themselves from the hack-box with no bars — then those eaglets, with no parents, taught themselves to hunt and became independent gradually, while still being provided with food after fledging. This technique was enormously successful, and Nova Scotia played a role in restoring the bald eagle populations of Massachusetts, Connecticut, etc., and eventually of course the species was removed from the at-risk lists. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. Begin forwarded message: > From: "rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca" <rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca> > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] May 23/20 big high tide, eagle nest report, no bot. gardens open > Date: May 24, 2020 at 8:03:59 AM ADT > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Hi All > One evening a few days ago I watched a program on Eagles on TV > An interesting program it was with lots of good scenery.. > No Baseball has me searching the listings for a sub! > One of the main points of the program was the effect of Black Flies > on the eaglets. And the Black Flies were one of the main cause > of mortality in eaglets. Not been an Eagle expert I was wondering > if this is a Nova Scotia problem for the eagles or is it only in > areas that have a higher Black Fly density than we do? > Enjoy the spring. > Paul > > > On May 23, 2020 at 4:41 PM Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote: > > > > > > MAY 23/20 — Today Pat & I drove out to Lower Canard Road, then north on Wellington Dyke Road (gravel) to the bald eagle nest that Doug Linzey reported a week ago. Today there wad some confusion, when a red-tailed hawk flew by the nest very closely, then landed on a nearby power pole. We didn’t see an eagle at the nest, but I think I saw a fuzzy head of an eaglet there. Growing leaves on the poplar? nest-tree make viewing difficult. > > > > At 2:20 p.m. the local tides were very high, listed on the BNS Calendar as 11.5 metres — but a strong & very cool wind from the northeast must have created a big storm surge, so that the actual high tide level must have been up to about 16 metres? > > > > Also Pat & I were very disappointed that the Irving Botanical Gardens at Acadia Univ. are closed off to the public. Through the fence we could see marsh marigold and white trilliums in bloom. > > > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.
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