My wife, who followed the eagles on her Ipad, and whose teenage children will presumably fly away in the approaching years, will like this story of eagles circling back to the nest:
DECORAH, Iowa – She’s back. After a four-month, 900-mile tour of Minnesota and Wisconsin, D1, the world-famous, wired Decorah eagle, has returned to Decorah. “Who would have ever guessed? Not me,” said Bob Anderson, the raptor expert who fitted her with a satellite transmitter this summer.
Satellite data confirm that D1 roosted Wednesday night in a tree just north of Palisades Park on the east edge of Decorah. “She is so near to my house that if the transmitter was turned on I could get a beep from my doorstep,” said Anderson, director of the Raptor Resource Project, whose nest-cam website has been visited more than 213 million times this year. Anderson said he picked up her signal near the Yellow River in Allamakee County on Tuesday morning but was unable to track it to the bird herself.
On Wednesday morning, Anderson and a friend returned to the area and picked up a weak signal, which grew in strength as they traveled toward it on gravel roads. . .
Read the rest here.
You can fly on those iPad’s too? No wonder people like them Apple’s.
That whole eagle thing was really cool.
There’s something very comforting about this. Even eagles like the familiar and have a ‘home town’. I can relate to Jamie (not the ipad thing but the raising teens thing)–I sure hope they come back!
Thanks so much for sharing this Chris. I love birds, and here in Florida, we have many Eagles, golden hawks, and other types of raptors. They are fascinating to watch. Great article and fun to know that someone else loves birds too!!!