Tag: bald eagles

This has got to be the oddest bald eagle’s nest — and what a back story!

See that platform on the new electric power line? It’s actually a box … and in it is an eagle’s nest. Moved by humans from its old spot on a nearby power line off to the left.

It’s a crazy story. PSE&G is replacing its old lattice-style towers with taller monopoles all over New Jersey. But bald eagles had been nesting on this one tower on Three Bridges Road in Hillsborough above the South Branch of the Raritan River and having babies every year since 2014. You can’t evict them! They have special rights, even if they are no longer on the endangered species list.

And eagles’ nests are big — many feet across. How could it safely balance on one of these poles?

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An easy bike ride to see eagles in Mercer County Park

Not my photo! I swiped this from a news site that credited it to Kevin Buynie.

First day of spring, warm and sunny … do you need a better reason for a bike ride?

Our goal was the eagles’ nest in Mercer County Park — a park three times the size of Central Park in New York City — and to hopefully see some of the many (40?!?) eagles reportedly spotted on our first blast of spring 10 days earlier. Yes, bald eagles live in New Jersey!

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