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Here's why you might see more bald eagles in the Bay Area right now
San Francisco Chronicle / sfgate.com ^ | Published 4:02 pm PDT, Sunday, March 29, 2020 | By Amanda Bartlett, SFGATE

Posted on 03/29/2020 4:18:35 PM PDT by thecodont

Trapped in the confines of four walls, springtime spent in quarantine can feel uninspiring, if not isolating. But as Gregory Chiate’s son looked outside his window in Marin County one recent morning, he realized he wasn’t alone.

On top of a towering conifer outside perched a bald eagle: the first one his father had seen since they moved there 11 years ago.

The birds have been making a comeback, according to Shannon Burke, an interpretive naturalist with Marin County Parks, though it’s not necessarily because the area has been deserted by people. (Coyotes are a different story in San Francisco.)

She said sightings of bald eagles are uncommon, but not rare — especially now, during their spring migration. And the birds that breed around the Bay Area — “local nesters,” as Burke calls them — usually begin settling down during the months of March and April. They mate for life.

“The breeding numbers are still small, but in the wintertime we do get visitors,” Burke said.

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And for Bay Area residents like Chiate, the eagle’s presence was uplifting — a welcome distraction from the challenges the last few weeks had presented.

“I felt like it was a sign in these troubled times that we are all going to be OK.”

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: americaneagle; baldeagle; california; eagle
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1 posted on 03/29/2020 4:18:35 PM PDT by thecodont
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They are preparing for Easter.✝️ 🐣🕊🌈
2 posted on 03/29/2020 4:20:49 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: thecodont

Bald Eagles have been making a dramatic comeback for the last 25 years.

I ser them all the time now.


3 posted on 03/29/2020 4:21:08 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: thecodont

They are all over. Bald eagles are far more numerous than would be normal. When the fish run out, they like dumpsters and road kill.


4 posted on 03/29/2020 4:22:27 PM PDT by poinq
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To: thecodont

I would expect them to be buzzards . . . circling over San Francisco.


5 posted on 03/29/2020 4:23:10 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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Soon they’ll be like pigeons pestering people for fish.

j/k


6 posted on 03/29/2020 4:26:07 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Nobody needs a 10 round magazine. You need a 30 round magazine.)
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Alaska likely had more bald eagles than seagulls


7 posted on 03/29/2020 4:26:17 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: thecodont

What in God’s name is an interpretive naturalist?


8 posted on 03/29/2020 4:27:42 PM PDT by chrisser
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When in a park in SITKA, there were HUNDREDS of Bald Eagles in the trees above us, and I just Prayed they didn’t CRAP on us!


9 posted on 03/29/2020 4:27:58 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: thecodont
We took the "Eagle Cruise" on Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho just before Christmas 2018. There were almost 400 eagles at the north end of the lake at Wolf Lodge Bay. That is the best area for spawning Kokanee salmon which the eagles love to eat. You find dead dish bodies all over the beach. This season the count was down from the previous year's record, but they are still plentiful.

There has been a nesting pair in a redwood tree at a school in Milpitas, California for several years. Every year they raise one to three eaglets.

10 posted on 03/29/2020 4:31:13 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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That’s a beautiful picture.

I posted this because... it’s uplifting. The bald eagle is our national symbol and I found the article encouraging.


11 posted on 03/29/2020 4:33:15 PM PDT by thecodont
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There was a breeding pair in eastern Santa Clara county 30 years ago.
A bit of a secret as they were on SF water district land where it was illegal to be.
That’s why the fishing was so good.
*snicker


12 posted on 03/29/2020 4:34:57 PM PDT by glasseye ( If 50,000 people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. H. L. Mencken)
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Why? They eat human feces or they eat the rats that eat the feces??


13 posted on 03/29/2020 4:35:31 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Coyotes have been seen walking the streets of San Francisco. No doubt the pervasive odor of feces tells these predators that there are numerous mammals or food sources congregating in what must appear to be a strange locale for the coyotes.


14 posted on 03/29/2020 4:41:26 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: PIF

We were in Alaska almost 20 years ago. Our family booked a cabin on the ferry run by the U.S. Parks Service up the coast from Bellinham, WA to Skagway, AL. There would be a park ranger lecture in the front observation lounge every afternoon.

In one lecture, they explained that the eagles liked to feast on the spawning salmon since the water would be real shallow. The eagles would eat until they could not fly. They would stagger around until they got to a place where they could safely plop over. They looked like they were drunk.


15 posted on 03/29/2020 4:50:42 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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Great! I’ve never seen one in the wild. At least not to my knowledge; I may have seen one in the distance and not recognized it. Beautiful animal. Anyone who shoots one or deliberately injures one in any way should be strung up by the you-know-whats!


16 posted on 03/29/2020 4:52:08 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: chrisser

A stripper maybe?


17 posted on 03/29/2020 4:59:45 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Bald Eagles are plentiful here at Lake of the Ozarks in mid-Missouri.
The big lake is ice free year round...


18 posted on 03/29/2020 5:11:22 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: chrisser

Dances with wolves?


19 posted on 03/29/2020 5:18:42 PM PDT by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: thecodont

Feeding on the corpses of Corona virus victims floating in the bay?


20 posted on 03/29/2020 5:24:42 PM PDT by nhbob1
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