Bald eagles at Chapman’s landing

[Ed Norton]

I stop by Chapman’s nearly every day as I live nearby, and one of my favorite things is the bald eagles who nest there.  While hard to see from the landing, they have built a lovely nest across the river on private property. 

For the last few weeks I’ve seen them go back to their nest for some tidying up a number of times.   Then yesterday they decide to start incubating on the osprey platform.  I was surprised.  I hope this doesn’t lead to friction when the osprey return.  

Here’s a terrible vid of them on the nest.  Digiscoped from the parking lot, ~0.44 miles away or ~770 yards. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/RCMS_RDqMoA?feature=share

Ed Norton

Newmarket

[Christian Martin]

This is not the first time Bald Eagles in NH have commandeered an Osprey nest and laid eggs.  Incubation documented in both a Hinsdale tree nest and a Jaffrey platform as far back as 2017.  Jaffrey pair successfully fledged eaglets in 2017 and 2018 from that Osprey nest platform.  Returning Ospreys to the Chapman’s Landing site in late March will NOT be pleased, and the eagles should still be incubating at that time.

- Chris

 

 

Chris Martin

Conservation Biologist

New Hampshire Audubon

84 Silk Farm Road

Concord, NH  03301

 

Phone:  603.224.9909, x317

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[Jon Woolf]

This isn't even the first time Bald Eagles have taken over the Chapman's Landing nest platform.  They did it at least once before that I know of - also in 2017.  As I recall, the eagles failed to fledge any young that year, but it was a couple of years before I saw osprey there again.

-- Jon Woolf
Manchester, NH

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[Ed Norton]

I may have spoken too soon about these birds.  I thought my video from two days ago showed incubation.  I couldn’t see the nest yesterday through the snow, but today was nice and clear. 

When I arrived she was in last years nest in the tree and he was on their usual perch above.   Then they both flew to the osprey platform and he landed on her back and they copulated (or at least thought about it), then they both hung out there until I left.  

Watch out the lot wasn’t plowed any it’s very messy.  

Ed Norton

Newmarket

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