"Winged Love Triangle -- The femme fatale wore feathers," Maryland - News Article Locations on Waymarking.com

According to "The News Tribune - The Newspaper for the South End," Tacoma, WA, Section A8, dated Saturday, April 7, 2007, a pair of bald eagles is soaring and nesting in a tree on Rosalie Island on the Maryland side of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. The male eagle has hooked up with a young female eagle who tried to peck to death his former longtime mate and the mother of his 16 eaglets.

In April 2006, the male eagle and his longtime mate, made national headlines when she was attacked by a rival for the male eagle’s attentions. The male and his mate had lived on the Maryland side of the bridge since the 1990s. His mate was seriously injured by the rival in the bloody midair attack. She was taken to a bird rescue center where she recovered in a few weeks and made her way back to the male eagle after being released into the wild in Delaware.

She was seriously injured again in September 2006, when she flew into a tree or power line and dislocated an elbow in her right wing. She had to be euthanized.

The rival female eagle, far younger than his former mate (it figures), never really went away. And now, she has moved into the nest. So far the pair has not produced any eaglets.

The nest is located in tree on Rosalie Island, about two miles southeast of the center of Alexandria, Virginia, about two miles west of Oxon Hill and about 4,200 feet east of Jones Point at the east end of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge (Capitol Beltway crossing of the Potomac River).

Type of publication: Newspaper When was the article reported?: 04/07/2007 Publication: The News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington Article Url: [Web Link] Is Registration Required?: no How widespread was the article reported?: national News Category: Entertainment

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