Dale Matson
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Last year we heard about a Bald Eagle nest along the Kings River. Sharon and I began going there and I got photos of the pair nesting near some Blue Heron nests. They had chosen to adopt one of the heron nests and re-fit it for their purposes.
But a late spring storm destroyed the nest and with it the eggs that it contained. As the Millerton eagle boat tour docent once said to me, “Eagles will break your heart.”
This year was a different story and the eagles appear to have learned their lesson. They built a sturdy nest in a Sycamore tree near their defunct nest. We have been following their progress since they began piecing it together, to sitting on eggs, to the two eggs hatching and the raising of their offspring. We began in April and it is now June. The chicks are ready to fledge and we hope it will be soon.
I photographed them with my Sony A7R and Sony 200-600mm lens with a 1.4 TC. The photos are cropped in camera to provide more magnification.
