n t e r p r i s e ’ s T h e E E A D ST O R TR Y OS O M The N Enterprise 2019 TOP STORY CA PENEWS.NET April MICHAEL BINGHAM Michael Bingham photographed this juvenile bald eagle along the Quashnet River in early April around dusk. Cape’s First Bald Eagle...
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n t e r p r i s e ’ s T h e E E A D ST O R TR Y OS O M The N Enterprise 2019 TOP STORY CA PENEWS.NET April MICHAEL BINGHAM Michael Bingham photographed this juvenile bald eagle along the Quashnet River in early April around dusk. Cape’s First Bald Eagle Nest In A Century Found By SAM HOUGHTON around with sticks in their mouths. last Friday, still no nests were spotted documented on the Cape. A r o u n d t h i s t i m e l a s t y e a r, “There’s no way there’s not a nest,” in Mashpee. “For us, this was a big deal,” said Massachusetts Department of Fish and said Mark Faherty, science coordinator Because bald eagles typically nest in Andrew Vitz, state ornithologist with Wildlife officials flew a helicopter around at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife remote areas, they are difficult to find MassWildlife. “This is the farthest east Mashpee-Wakeby Pond and Santuit look- Sanctuary. That eagles have been seen and document. But to birders, it is only they have ever come.” ing for a bald eagle n
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