B/64 and mate have a successful 2017 nesting season.
CWF Biologist: Larissa Smith
B/64 & mate@ L. Oughton
In 2014 I first heard from Linda Oughton who watches an eagles in nest near Montgomery, PA. The female in the pair is a NJ banded bird, B/64, nick named “Jersey Girl”. She was banded in 2004 at the Hopewell West nest along the Cohansey River in Cumberland County.
This season Jersey Girl and her mate raised and fledged three chicks. Linda reports that they have fledged a total of 14 chicks since they first started nesting in 2010. It isn’t often that we know what happens to one of NJ eagles and we can only know if they were banded as chicks. Unfortunately many of the NJ banded eagles that are reported to us are either injured or dead. But in recent years re-sightings of green banded NJ birds are more common and we are aware of NJ banded eagles nesting in NJ as well as NY and CT.
B/64’s 3 chicks in nest 6/1/17 @L. Oughton
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- B/64’s chick 6/10/17@L. Oughton
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- B/64’s mate & chick 6/11/17@ L. Oughton
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- Can you find all three chicks? 6/13/17 @L. Oughton
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