Broadmoor Eagles Bonding

Over the course of Valentine's Day week, the pair of bald eagles nesting on the eleventh hole of the Broadmoor Golf Club spent the days re-acquainting themselves with each other. As is typical of this species, after their nesting season was completed last year, they moved off of their natal site to rest and rebuild their strength and patience for the next season of creating more bald eagles for the world in 2024. Anyone walking in the area of the beaver lodge along the east side of the golf club will easily hear both of the adults chittering and chattering as only bald eagles can. They fly back and forth from the nesting tree, out over Lake Washington, no doubt checking on the construction progress for the 520 bridge. None of the noise and traffic activities have bothered them in past years, and the lake's abundance of water fowl and fish, with the rabbits on the golf course have provided an ample larder to raise a family of two or three youngsters in the past years. Stay tuned as incubation begins with the female doing most of the heavy work, guarding the nest and keeping the eggs warm. The male will be working hard to keep her fed and giving her some occasional breaks from nesting duties. Incubation runs about 35 days and then the real work starts. The young eagles grow rapidly and are full grown and ready to fledge, or take their first flights from the nest at about 12 weeks. The commotion at that time will be quite obvious to anyone in the vicinity.

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Wonderful, as usual. And so it continues…🎉