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Baby bald eagle dies less than 2 days after birth
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ROME, Ga. - A baby bald eagle that hatched Wednesday on the campus of a northwest Georgia college has died after less than 48 hours of life.
Berry College announced Friday that the eaglet, labeled B14, had died overnight after it apparently got too far away from its parents and got too cold. One of the adult eagles at least partly ate the dead offspring, which the college said is not an uncommon occurrence in many eagle nests.
The college maintains a 24-hour webcast of the nest.
Berry College biology Professor Renee Carlton said observers believe B14 was the first eagle hatched by the female, who is new to a nest where another female successfully hatched a number of eagles. The female is still incubating a second egg expected to hatch any day.
Georgia angler breaks 25-year-old fishing record for hickory shad
By Michael Hollan article
Christian Blake Jones is now the state record holder for catching the hickory shad. (Georgia Department of Natural Resources)
(Georgia Department of Natural Resources)
EMANUEL COUNTY, Ga. - Even if it takes a while, almost all records will eventually be broken.
A Georgia angler recently broke a state record for fishing that had been set over two decades ago. The fisherman was apparently out on the water trying to catch a completely different type of fish, but reeled in a record.
Christian Blake Jones caught a record hickory shad while recently fishing on the Ogeechee River, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR.) He was reportedly on the water that day targeting crappies when he reeled in the largest hickory shad caught in the Peach State since the 90s.
Athens-Clarke commission moves to protect Rock and Shoals Outcrop
Athens Banner-Herald
The Athens-Clarke County Commission approved a conservation easement this week to protect 22 acres of land in a nature preserve the county owns.
The site, called the Rock and Shoals Outcrop, is a natural area of shoals harboring growths of mosses, lichens, ferns and numerous other plants that cling for life on the rocky earth.
“This was 22 acres that was actually bought in 2003,” Leisure Services Director Kent Kilpatrick said.
Last July, the county purchased an additional 71 acres near the original 22 located off Barnett Shoals Road, according to Kilpatrick.
“Everything was purchased with greenspace money in partnership with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and all of that has a conservation easement on it,” he said.