sea eagles

junospider · 14-08-2014 2:48pm #1

Heading to Mountshannon tomorrow,any chance of seeing he eagles?

Capercaille · 14-08-2014 2:58pm

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mountshannon-White-Tailed-Sea-Eagles/457101757698020?fref=ts
The link is the Facebook page for the Mountshannon Sea-Eagles. The chick has fledged now, but the parents would still be feeding it. Ask on the Facebook page if they are still there.

emo72 · 14-02-2019 7:20pm

im heading over that area soon. is there any eagles there? i had a quick google and it looks like a pair of them died last year sadly. id love to see them again.

Birdnuts · 15-02-2019 12:53am

emo72 wrote: »

im heading over that area soon. is there any eagles there? i had a quick google and it looks like a pair of them died last year sadly. id love to see them again.

2 died of bird flu last year including the breeding female - I believe the Male is still in the area

bogman · 15-02-2019 1:29am

Latest news here

http://www.mountshannoneagles.ie/

a148pro · 16-02-2019 10:40am

There were a pair nesting on garnish island near Beara peninsula about 3 years ago, unbelievably large in person, though the tag on them slightly took from the wonder of seeing them. Anyone know are they still there?

cameramonkey · 16-02-2019 4:55pm

Is there any news on breeding from 2018?

emo72 · 16-02-2019 5:17pm

I'm here right now. Nothing to report.

Edit... It was a cold windy day. The observation deck with scopes isn't there anymore. Nothing really happening at all. Maybe it's the time of year. Anyway, hopefully something develops this year.

fryup · 17-02-2019 12:06am

^^^^^^^^^

that observation hut is usually set up during spring/summer

snowstreams · 18-02-2019 10:55am

My father & brother saw a dead eagle on the side of a road near Drogheda at the weekend.
It looked like it had been feed on a dead pheasant when it got hit by a car.

The body was then collected by someone because it was gone 30 minutes later when they came back with a camera!

Im hoping it wasnt one of the wild ones.
They stated that the talons were about the size of their hands so thats how I've ruled it out as being a buzzard.

I wasn't aware of any eagles living in that area of the country so i was wondering if it was an escapee from Newgrange falconry centre.

fred funk }{ · 18-02-2019 12:11pm

snowstreams wrote: »

My father & brother saw a dead eagle on the side of a road near Drogheda at the weekend.
It looked like it had been feed on a dead pheasant when it got hit by a car.

The body was then collected by someone because it was gone 30 minutes later when they came back with a camera!

Im hoping it wasnt one of the wild ones.
They stated that the talons were about the size of their hands so thats how I've ruled it out as being a buzzard.

I wasn't aware of any eagles living in that area of the country so i was wondering if it was an escapee from Newgrange falconry centre.

More than likely a Buzzard.

snowstreams · 18-02-2019 12:18pm

Buzzards are very common in that area & thats the first thing I said to them.
But they are insistent on the size of it and they have seen buzzards before.

Ive reported it to goldeneagle.ie just in case.
I didnt see any sightings of eagles on irishbirding.ie in the area recently so maybe it was just a buzzard.
A scottish eagle was seen in the area in 2016 though.

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