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Show Audubon Society Reports No Eaglets in Famous Nest LANCASTER, PA Here's a housing note for the bird world. The nest of the lordly American bald eagle in Lancaster county is vacant. The National Audubon society reports re-ports that for the first time since 1936 there are no eaglets in the famous Mt. Johnson Island aerie below Lancaster in the Susquehanna river. TJr. Herbert H. Beck, of Lancaster, Lan-caster, custodian of the society's sanctuary, said normally two and possibly three young eagles would be taking off about now for their !irst flight. He figures either Mother Baldy died of natural causes or she was shot by a hunter who didn't know or didn't care that the national bird is under federal protection. It would have to be mama, Dr. Beck said, for if anything happened hap-pened to Papa Baldy another male would have moved in immediately. Eagles, he added, live by "baronial "baron-ial rights," and once they select a nest they never use another, nor permit any other birds to settle within their chosen domain. |