The first bald eagle chicks in recent Oakland history have been spotted near Piedmont’s Mountain View Cemetery, along with their two very majestic parents, and there’s been a flurry of social media posts capturing these mesmerizing birds.
There have been quite a few visitors descending on a certain cemetery in Piedmont lately, but not many of them are coming to pay their respects to the dead. Instead, word has gotten out that there’s a bald eagle nest with two young chicks at the Mountain View Cemetery in Piedmont, as KGO reports, and the family of four contains what are believed to be the first bald eagle chicks nesting in the Oakland area in generations.
How about a look at those chicks? They are technically called “eaglets,” and according to KGO, “The young ones are in the fledgling stage, with their head feathers still dark.” They were likely hatched in late April or early May, and they’re reportedly not yet flying. But they are starting to leave the nest a bit and explore, and they’re certainly drawing crowds.
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