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Hartford Bald Eagle Nest

paul cianfaglione

Fri, Mar 9, 2007 9:29 PM

 This morning while scanning the Connecticut River from Charter Oak Landing in Hartford, a hispanic gentleman walked over to me and directed my attention to a pair of Bald Eagles and their nest. To my surprise, the Eagles had chosen to nest right next to the noisy Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (near Brainard Airport and Colt building). The person also mentioned that he has often seen the Eagles harassing and feeding on gulls and waterfowl. 
I believe the gull concentrations in Hartford have been wiped out this winter due to the larger presence of Eagles. I have seen Eagles almost every time I visited the river and have seen them eating gulls on more than one occassion. I guess it's not a bad thing unless your looking for uncommon gulls.

Paul Cianfaglione

This morning while scanning the Connecticut River from Charter Oak Landing in Hartford, a hispanic gentleman walked over to me and directed my attention to a pair of Bald Eagles and their nest. To my surprise, the Eagles had chosen to nest right next to the noisy Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (near Brainard Airport and Colt building). The person also mentioned that he has often seen the Eagles harassing and feeding on gulls and waterfowl. I believe the gull concentrations in Hartford have been wiped out this winter due to the larger presence of Eagles. I have seen Eagles almost every time I visited the river and have seen them eating gulls on more than one occassion. I guess it's not a bad thing unless your looking for uncommon gulls. Paul Cianfaglione

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Fri, Mar 9, 2007 11:04 PM

Jay Kaplan

-----Original Message-----
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Subject: [CT Birds] Hartford Bald Eagle Nest

   This morning while scanning the Connecticut River from Charter Oak Landing

in Hartford, a hispanic gentleman walked over to me and directed my attention to
a pair of Bald Eagles and their nest. To my surprise, the Eagles had chosen to
nest right next to the noisy Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (near
Brainard Airport and Colt building). The person also mentioned that he has often
seen the Eagles harassing and feeding on gulls and waterfowl.
I believe the gull concentrations in Hartford have been wiped out this
winter due to the larger presence of Eagles. I have seen Eagles almost every
time I visited the river and have seen them eating gulls on more than one
occassion. I guess it's not a bad thing unless your looking for uncommon gulls.
Paul Cianfaglione

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Although eagles may certainly feed on gulls, the gulls in the greater Hartford area were "wiped out" by the elimination of the large, active dumps (Hartford, East Hartford and Manchester) that over a decade ago were attracting gulls by the thousands. The reason that the Bloomfield-Windsor dump continues to attract gulls is because this landfill still accepts raw garbage whereas most towns now take their trash to the South Meadows where it is incinerated. To my knowledge, this is the only remaining active dump in the greater Hartford region. There's nothing like birding in a landfill on a cold, winter day! I'm sure Patrick Comins will be happy to elaborate. Jay Kaplan -----Original Message----- From: pcianfaglione@hotmail.com To: ctbirds@lists.ctbirding.org Sent: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 4:29 PM Subject: [CT Birds] Hartford Bald Eagle Nest This morning while scanning the Connecticut River from Charter Oak Landing in Hartford, a hispanic gentleman walked over to me and directed my attention to a pair of Bald Eagles and their nest. To my surprise, the Eagles had chosen to nest right next to the noisy Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (near Brainard Airport and Colt building). The person also mentioned that he has often seen the Eagles harassing and feeding on gulls and waterfowl. I believe the gull concentrations in Hartford have been wiped out this winter due to the larger presence of Eagles. I have seen Eagles almost every time I visited the river and have seen them eating gulls on more than one occassion. I guess it's not a bad thing unless your looking for uncommon gulls. Paul Cianfaglione _______________________________________________ This list is provided by the Connecticut Ornithological Association (COA) for the discussion of birds and birding in Connecticut. For subscription information visit http://lists.ctbirding.org/mailman/listinfo/ctbirds_lists.ctbirding.org ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.