Where Have they Gone?

One of the great joys of living on Lake Anna has been seeing up close all of the wildlife which live in our Cove. The birdwatching is terrific, especially as we've watched a pair of eagles fish, fly and raise an eglet in the same waters where we fish and swim. The eglet is now almost full size, has his full compliment of black and white feathers and is almost as big as his mother. But that begs the question...where are his parents? We haven't seen them in months and truth be told, we miss them.

We've done some basic sleuthing hoping to solve the mystery. The first stop was the eagles' nests. They have two and could often be found in either of them. On this visit we discovered one of the two massive nests has been destroyed The smaller of the two still remains and we believe the eglet now lives there.

Would the loss of a nest drive the parents to live elsewhere? Not necessarily, according to a number of different sources including Eagles.org.

Still, it appears for now anyway that "Mommy and Daddy" Eagle...as my kids know them (certainly not as creative named as Martha and George, I know) are gone.

We really do hope they come back.