New nest, new eggs: Lake Natoma’s bald eagle pair resettles

In early January, storm winds and heavy rain knocked down a tree carrying a bald eagle nest at Lake Natoma.

The tree, a grey pine, was home to a pair of bald eagles named Mama and Papa that have been living there since 2017. Now, almost two months later, the pair have a new nest roughly a thousand feet away from the previous one, and have laid an egg, possibly two.

Kathy Kayner, the board member and head of the Bald Eagle Interpretive Program for Friends of Lakes Folsom and Natoma, said the new eagles’ nest was built in about three and a half weeks, and an egg was laid shortly after…

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