Cemetery director Don Price said blustery winds caused the top of the dead pine tree where the eagles nested to topple Saturday afternoon. The nest was home to two adult eagles and two hatchlings that could not yet fly.
A volunteer from the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey rescued the young eagles on Saturday.
"They're in really good shape — totally perfect," said Susie Warren, another volunteer at the Maitland facility.
The nest's destruction caused concern among cemetery officials, who were never informed the birds had been rescued.
Unaware that the young eagles had been taken to the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey, Price searched the grounds of the city-owned cemetery Saturday night. A state wildlife official joined the search today, this time only discovering in the nest remains of fish, smaller birds and rodents that the eagles had preyed upon.
They assumed the mother had taken her young elsewhere. Young eagles have fallen before, including during Hurricane Charley and again last year, when an adult bird retrieved a hatchling that had fallen.
The eagles had been popular with birdwatchers for years. The city had left the dead pine in place because of the nest.
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