Nature takes toll on eagles’ perches

Published 2:06 am Tuesday, January 16, 2007

PORT ANGELES – Two trees fell last week in Port Angeles that, though no one may have heard them crash, sounded a deep sadness among some Westside residents.

One had been an eagle’s perch for at least six years.

The other held a nest to which – although the birds had abandoned it – observers said the eagles would return.

The first tree stood 150 feet tall near Milwaukee Drive and N Street.

It had been tilting before last Tuesday’s gale. Wednesday, it vanished, tearing out its roots and tumbling down the hill.

“The first windstorm [in November] made it list,” Patricia Nelson, who lives nearby on Estes Court, said Thursday.

“The second finished it off.”