Anonymous ID: 54c701 Dec. 29, 2023, 11:20 a.m. No.20148946   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Massive eagle nest spotted in West Texas amazes wildlife officials. ‘I mean golly’

 

Sitting on a rock, resting for a moment under the West Texas sky, something in the distance caught Craig Hensley’s eye.

 

A massive collection of sticks piled on stone, a nest hidden in the side of a cliff wall towering over the sand and scrub of the Chihuahuan Desert — it was a bald eagle nest, he told McClatchy News, but not like any he’d ever seen.

 

“That nest, I mean golly … that’s the biggest nest by far that I’ve ever seen in my life,” Hensley told McClatchy News in a phone interview.

 

Unless they decide to abandon it, bald eagles will often return to a nest year after year, adding more material to it each time, making it bigger.

 

“I would love to know how many years that thing has been there,” he said.

 

A biologist with the state Parks and Wildlife Department’s Texas Nature Trackers program, Hensley was on a staff retreat at the Devils River State Natural Area when he and fellow team members spotted the occupied nest, he said.

 

Texas Nature Trackers shared a photo of the nest in a Dec. 13 Facebook post.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/massive-eagle-nest-spotted-west-210838376.html