Bald Eagle Migration Update: February 22, 2006 Today's Report Includes:
This Week's Bald Eagle Tracking Map and Data
Tracking with your own map? Use your Bald
Eagle Journal and map
each week. Field Notes from Eagleye Nye Hello again Journey North:
Not a very exciting week for Kathy, Sarah and me trapping; no luck again and just too darn nice again, as last week. Both Wednesday and Thursday (the day we trapped), temps reached into the 60's here and much sunshine. I think eagles have other things on their minds right now, and certainly are not food stressed. Scott and Kathy Maloney, on the other hand, had good luck with their trapping this week, capturing one of our young adults along the northern portion of our Delaware River. However, this eagle was already banded (one I banded as a nestling in 2001 from one of our nearby nests). T18 is a female just coming into sexual maturity. Scott and Kathy did place a local/vhf radio transmitter on her to be able to track her this spring, again, hopefully to a nest. Why wouldn’t this bird be a candidate for a satellite radio? I will be on vacation snowboarding in Vermont with my family all this week, but my crew, including Mike Clark, Kathy Michell and Sarah Shute, will be out trapping again on 22 Feb., so I hope they have good news when I return! News About our Birds V98 continues to reside in what is apparently her "usual" wintering ground (I asked you to learn more about this area). Did you find anything out about this area? Once you do, you might want to dig even further and see exactly what is in the area where V98 frequents (hint: look up Aberdeen Proving Grounds). What do you think of this area? Do you think it is a good refuge? Or does it come with some potential hazards? P04 is the only one of our birds currently hanging around any where
near our usual capture/wintering area. Our Immature Eagles Well kids, that's all for now; see you next week! Best wishes, Eagleye Map Quest
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