Yesterday (Thur 3-5-20) here in SE Nebraska we had some pretty strong winds. I heard some say 50 mph plus. Today I went to work and glanced over to where there USED to be an eagle's nest next to the plant I work in.. It was gone. Wind must of blew it down. The nest kinda looked like the one pictured. This picture is not the nest that fell.
I wonder if the pair will rebuild in the same general area? Hope they stick around as they are kinda cool watching..... for now. Maybe someday they'll be a pain. Don't know.

Seen them just move to a better tree if that happens not far away.

I had an eagle wait for me every day to drop off carcasses. That was two seasons ago. It built a nest in the closest cottonwood to where I dropped off my carcasses every day. This year there were more there. It was kind of a cool deal seeing it every day waiting for me.

The other day, I went by a dead hog pit. There some huge cottonwood trees near it. I counted 17 eagles on the ground and in the trees. Quite a sight.

They will build nearby. Years ago (decades actually) I used to hike an area in the western NC mtns where eagles were being reintroduced. The process was called "hacking" and involved raising young eagles in large cages, feeding road kill, and ultimately allowing airtime that lead to full release. The eagles would nest in the area they were raised. This is back when eagle populations were threatened due to DDT.

A nest went bad down the road here.... the pair rebuilt in another big oak like 80 yards away.

I have been watching a pair build and preparing a nest for over a month now. It seems these two, took a long time to get the nest to where it is today. It was a slow but continuous processes to build. I watched them for hours one branch and twig at a time.

I would think they would find a place soon and a rush job would be instore to complete before they lay. I have done some research and here end of March is about the time they lay eggs.

The Cuivre river washed out the tree eagles were nesting in by Troy, Mo. a few years back. They moved upstream a few hundred yards and rebuilt.

A pair I had been watching for a long time had been using a huge nest for many years. A few years ago they abandoned it for no apparent reason and built a new one on the opposite side of the river about 200 yards upstream.

Back in the years I was trapping in Wy, there was a really big eagles nest along 14-16 highway, north of Moorcroft. Was there for years, built on a powerline structure. I guess the power company had to deal with it, because of the endangered status. I couldn't believe how much they added to that nest every year. Biggest nest I ever seen!

Sometimes moorcroft has good fuel prices

Yes, they will rebuilt close by. Nice the hear positive comment about Eagles.

Be careful, Storm blew down a nest on our land here in WI. Neighbors that enjoyed watching them called the WDNR and USFWS. Had to go through a whole investigation because someone called in and said we cut it down as it affected our deer hunting. (ridiculous) The nest was 50 feet up and 15 feet out on a limb in an old elm that died. No way we would climb out there. Then two weeks later 3/4 of a mile away. My wife and I are turkey hunting, set up before dark, we shoot a tom and are working a second tom. We stand up look down and there is a dead bald eagle. I am like oh great. We call the warden and find out we were ok, and eagles sometimes just die like that, (long story short). But it was quite the time.

Eagles die of old age and sickness like anything else. You did the right thing by calling the CO.

We had nest for years in a big old tree, top and nest got blown out in a storm they rebuilt in the same tree just a few feet.closer to ground.

Thanks for all the comments guys..... Years ago there were no eagles in my area, Then in the early 90's they would show up in late winter.... but then move on to somewhere. Around early 2000's they started to show them selves with regularity year round. I work in Beatrice and know of 4 nest around that city... within 10 miles or so. The last couple years the eagles have to have been nesting around my home area as there are adults seen year round and now the last year or so I have seen several young flying all over the place. They are a majestic bird. They represent what we as a nation experience and should be proud of. Great comments again...…. Thanks

You will eventually learn that bald eagles are just oversized ravens with a white head.
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I vote power lines and guy wires.

Yup. Not always glamorous