Hour photo/Chris Bosak
Rick Potvin, manager of the Stewart B. McKinney NWR, holds a sign before it was posted on Chimon Island on Wednesday. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife officials were on the island to mark off areas to protect a bald eagle nest.
The answer is a definite “probably.”
I wrote my latest For the Birds column in The Hour newspaper (Norwalk, Conn.) about the topic.
Here’s the start of the column:
Now for the answer to the burning question in the Norwalk birding world: Most likely.
The question, of course, is: Did the Bald Eagles have babies yet?
Again, the answer is “most likely.” Without climbing the tree or somehow hovering above the tree on Chimon Island where the nest is located, it’s hard to tell with all certainty. Since no one is going to climb the tree or otherwise hover above it, it’s basically a waiting game.
The eagles are still out there and one is sitting on the nest at all times. You could see that from Calf Pasture Beach with a spotting scope or good pair of binoculars. In talking with Norwalk’s Larry Flynn, the eagles have been sitting on the nest long enough that eggs would have been laid and hatched by now. Flynn is monitoring the birds for the state DEEP.
The vantage point from Calf Pasture and, indeed, even closer from Long Island Sound, is such that only the adult eagle’s head and maybe part of its body is visible. There is no way to tell what, if anything, it is sitting on.
If there are actually eaglets in the nest, it will be several weeks until they are large enough to be seen in the nest. So we play the waiting the game. Hopefully our patience will pay off and eventually we’ll all get to see fledgings flying about Long
Birds of New England.com 
I was at the beach with my good binoculars on Thurs and could make out one of the eagles landing in the nest, but can’t see anything else from that distance. The leaves will be coming out soon and the view from the beach will be blocked as well as from the water near Chimon Is. _ Dave, via Facebook
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