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A pair of bald eagles picked possibly the best spot - for bird watchers, at least - to build a nest in North Park.
The couple has settled down in sight of the park's North Dakota Pavilion and Rachel Carson Trail at the intersection of Pearce Mill and Brown roads.
At a naming ceremony Monday, at a site between the North Park Ice Skating Rink and Latodami Nature Center, county Executive Rich Fitzgerald and Allegheny County Councilwoman Cindy Kirk officially renamed the area the Eagle's Nest Shelter and Grove.
The stars of the show, the eagles, did not make an appearance. In what is believed to be their first attempt at nesting and mating, they did not produce eggs in 2019.
Eagles mate for life. They were recently seen in the area but do not routinely roost in the nesting tree at this time of year. At Pittsburgh's latitude, bald eagles generally return to their nests in late December and begin coupling rituals that lead to reinforcing the nest...