Baby Bald Eagle Might Be Housed In Hays Nest

PITTSBURGH, PA - A new eaglet might have landed in a nest familiar to many of its frequent observers.

The Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania on Tuesday sought to verify that the eaglet has hatched in a bald eagle nest in Hays that people watch on a live video feed the society and PixController. For several days, people have posted on social media that they have seen what appears to be an eaglet in the nest.

“At this point, we’re not comfortable calling it,” Jim Bonner, the western Pennsylvania society’s executive director, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The timing of a blessed avian event would appear to be about right. The society last month said that the pair of eagles residing in the nest had laid their first egg of the year, and eggs take a little more than a month before they hatch.

Also last month, the eagles lost their former nest when high winds toppled the tree that held it. They quickly built a new nest west of the previous one.

Photo by Kenneth Cole Schneider via Creative Commons.