They’re back
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- March
- 30
The pair of bald eagles who have chosen a slice of suburban Putnam County in which to raise their family are back for another year. I stopped to take a look at the couple’s nest this morning. What I’m assuming was mom was hunkered down on the nest. Dad stopped by a couple of times while I was there, apparently just checking on things because he wasn’t carrying anything.
Last year, the Southeast pair were taking care of two young eagles, brown, awkward-looking birds. But the last time I stopped by, in late June, only one was visible flying around the nest. I’m not saying that’s bad news. The other sibling could have already mastered flying and was just off elsewhere.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation has known about the nest since 2006, when the pair raised one young. In 2007, they raised three.
Here’s the state’s “Bald Eagle Report 2008.” As you can see, Region 3, which includes Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan and Orange counties, is very productive, eagle-wise.
Regionally, southeastern New York (DEC Regions 3 & 4) continues to be the densest area of eagle nesting activity in the state, accounting for 53% of all the occupied territories and 57% of all the young fledged in the state in 2008.Region 8 took honors for the most new pairs in 2008, with six, while Region 3 got the gold star this year for the greatest number of occupied pairs and young fledged in the state (table 6).
The photo by TJN photographer Frank Becerra shows the nest last year.
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Journal News staff writer Greg Clary writes Earth Watch, reporting on environmental issues in the lower Hudson region. Clary has been a reporter, editor and columnist at the Journal News since 1988 and has covered police and courts, transportation, municipal government, development and the environment in the Lower Hudson Valley, among other topics. 
Laura Incalcaterra covers the environment, open space and zoning and planning issues for The Journal News. A Boston College graduate, Laura grew up in Rockland, attended East Ramapo schools and has worked for The Journal News since 1993. Laura has written features and covered North Rockland, crime, government and a host of other issues.
Mike Risinit covers Patterson and Kent in Putnam County, as well as environmental topics touching on the Hudson River and the Great Swamp. Risinit has been a reporter at The Journal News since 1998.
