I just posted the news on Duke Farms' blog.

Link and another photo are here.

Gabriel Willow, who leads the wonderful bird walks at Wave Hill  and all sorts of other field trips for NYC Audubon, is speaking at the Fyke this Friday at 8 p.m. at Allendale Borough Hall-- and it's free.

(That's Gabriel leading a walk at Wave Hill, above, center.)

Here's the writeup:

The Mysteries of Migration with Gabriel Willow
NYC naturalist Gabriel Willow gives a multimedia presentation about the mysteries of bird migration, exploring why NYC & NJ are of particular importance for migratory songbirds and other species.

Learn about the latest science on avian migration, what migratory species are found in our area, what you can do to observe and conserve these species and what observation of these species can tell us about climate change and other environmental issues.

We will also explore what particular challenges urban settings pose for migratory species.

Now that the Duke Farms Bald Eagle nest has at least one egg, there will invariably be periods when the egg seems to be left alone.

Folks watching the Eagle Cam, especially for the first time, tend to worry about this.

On the Duke Farms blog, I posted some advice from experts on why it's probably no cause for concern.

The link is here.

Ron Shields and I stopped by the Ridgefield Park nest (at a great distance) and both saw the top of an eagle's head just above the rim of the bowl.

Looks like Alice and Al are incubating an egg already -- could be more. It also appears that Al and Alice's egg arrived about the same time as the Duke Farms' Bald Eagle egg, so watching the Duke Farms Eagle Cam should give you a good idea what's going on at the Ridgefield Park nest.

Also saw two immature Bald Eagles in Little Ferry and two adult Bald Eagles along the Hackensack River in Teaneck -- that's the most I've seen in one day so far this year.

Bob Leafe writes:

I was walking to my car earlier this week when I saw a familiar shape with a large wingspan fly around a nearby building and land on a telephone pole.

The light was pretty crappy, but I got a few shots before it took off and I combined them in one jpeg. (Thanks, Bob!)