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Golden Eagles, alive and healty at Kelly Place, eggs a-plenty!

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Golden Eagle Sightings !   Hiker: Marc Yaxley On a short 1 hour hike today, I caught a quick video of a mom Eagle launching right over me. I had stumbled near and below a rock outcrop where she had made her seasonal nest and loaded it with eggs. Being a bed and breakfast at first I thought "how many people can I feed with one of those eggs?", then sanity returned and the lowly chicken eggs will have to suffice. Here is a snap of that video of her launching from the nest that I visit next: Looping over my head as I "hung out in the Eagles Nest" (I limited my visit to 2 to 3 minutes only): More fairly close (20') shots of her swooping around me as if to say, "...you better not touch those babies...": The nest niche they live in, two full size adults were in service as I came up, they both flew off as the above photos show, leaving their Eaglet for me to spy on: Mom flying over while I looked around, she did