A Few Severe Thunderstorms Possible in the Appalachians and Mid-Atlantic. Daytime heating and moisture rich air extending from the Mid-Atlantic Southward to the Central Gulf Coast and the Southeast will produce showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon into late evening hours today. Flooding and flash flooding will be possible in some areas.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has identified a record number of bald eagle nests in Georgia this year. Aerial surveys conducted in January and March revealed 210 occupied nesting territories, 166 successful nests and 270 young. Thatâs the most since Georgia started a program to repopulate bald eagles in 1979. The DNR survey identified four nests in Floyd County, up from two from last year. Two nests are located near the Rocky Mountain Public Recreation Area, one of which was discovered this winter.
In Pennsylvania, the bald eagle is given additional protections under the state Game and Wildlife Code. Adult bald eagles are 30 to 40 inches in length and weigh 8 to 14 pounds. Their wingspans are 6 to 8 feet, and they stand about 2 feet tall. As with other birds of prey, the female is larger than the male. Bald eagles fly with strong, deep strokes, or soar on flattened wings. Their eyesight is among the keenest in the animal world, five or six times sharper than a human's. A bald eagle's call is a rapid, harsh cackle, kweek-kik-ik-ik-ik-ik, or a lower kak-kokkak. Fish, either caught live or scavenged as carrion, make up 60 to 90 percent of a bald eagle's diet. Bald eagles also eat birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. Eagles soar above the water or sit on a perch, and when they spot a fish near the water's surface, they swoop down and snatch it in their talons.