Two, six-week-old bald eagles were carefully released from crates at the top of a thirty-foot high tower. "In two months they will be flying freely, huge and magnificent, above the marsh."
In the article, a photo of the late Bruce Duncan, interpreter at Taquanyah Nature Centre, proudly displaying the crates being removed from a Ministry of Natural Resources vehicle and hoisting them to the top of five telephone poles where the man-made eagles' nest would serve as the eagles new home.
There was a great effort in the mid-eighties to re-introduce the bald eagle, then an endangered species, to southern Ontario. This was a combined effort by The Grand River Conservation Authority, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, World Wildlife Fund, Hamilton Naturalists' Club and Ontario Hydro.
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That was Haldimand in 1986. Sadly, in 2013 we ruthlessly destroy an eagles' nest built by these magnificent birds themselves.
"At six weeks old, the Taquanyah eaglets are able to tear up their own fish and have enough feathers to regulate their body temperature without parental care. Once here, George Melvin, the Eagle 'babysitter,' feeds and watches them but in a secretive way, so that human contact remains minimal. Their fish are slid down a tube into the nest platform, while George hides behind the back and side walls of the cage. He also keeps an eye on them during especially warm days, spraying cool water over the cage if necessary."
"Six more Eaglets are in similar, but larger quarters, halfway down Long Point. All will be released to fly freely in mid-August."
~ Article, June 25, 1986 issue Dunnville Chronicle.
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