Sooner Lake bald Eagles Stillwater Oklahoma 02/07/09

The nest is on Sooner Lake, near Stillwater Oklahoma. The current nest is on an artificial tower erected by the Sutton Avian Research Center and local utility OG&E to replace the original dead nest tree used by this pair after it fell down. The pair first built a nest in the dead tree in 1995, and laid their first eggs in 1996. Since then, they've fledged 22 eaglets, with three eaglets in 2000 and 2002. This is the first year they've known how many eggs were laid; they do know that three eggs hatched in 2007, but the youngest chick was unable to compete for food with its older siblings, so only two of them fledged.

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Pets & Animals

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• sooner
• lake
• bald
• eagles
• nest
• raptor
• bird
• stillwater
• oklahoma