DENVER—A pair of bald eagles survived a fire that consumed a grove of trees where they were nesting near Fort Lupton, and wildlife officials are trying to determine if the blaze damaged the birds’ eggs.
Chris Mettenbrink with Colorado Parks and Wildlife tells The Denver Post ( ) he doesn’t know how hot the nest became or if the eggs were affected.
Heavy winds pushed a controlled burn into the cottonwood grove Wednesday, and the 20- to 30-foot-tall tree that housed the nest was burned about three-quarters of the way up.
Cindi Kelly with the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory says bald eagle eggs hatch in about 35 days, so chicks could emerge any time from late March to April. There are 90 bald eagle breeding pairs in the state.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
