Meadowlark’s very own Nathan Bolls will be speaking at 7 p.m. Friday, June 21, in the Event Center about one year in the life of a mated pair of bald eagles.

From courtship and nest repair to egg laying, hatching of chicks, their growth, what foods they are fed, to their rapid growth toward the age and size to where the chicks begin “flying in place” in and above the nest, to their learning to fly, to knowing how to hunt and to spend nights high up in some neighboring tree away from the nest. 

And one day, after it is evident that the chicks can live on their own, the female parent will rise into the air and soar. The male soon will follow, and they will have a few months of relative ease before the urges begin again for the mating ritual and for nest repair. Bald eagles may live in the wild for 20 to 25 years. Some experts say 25 to 30 years!