A nest located on Dale Hollow Lake, that has been a long time home to a pair of nesting bald eagles, is once again a nursery.

Photographs made recently by James Purkey, a Pickett County, Tennessee photographer, shows an adult bald eagle tending to a young chick.

Other photographs made this spring have hinted that there might possibly be two chicks in the nest.

The pair of adult bald eagles have raised their young in the nest for the past several years, and have raised as many as three eaglets in some seasons.

The nest is located high above the lake on a hillside in Tennessee in the proximity of Sunset Marina. The exact location of the nest is not being publicized.

Last week, the entire nation watched as a pair of eaglets hatched in front of our very eyes in a nest located in our nation’s capitol, Washington, D.C..

The view of the hatching was made possible by a pair of live web cameras that have been installed nearby and are being operated by the American Eagle Foundation.

Television networks and news agencies across the nation picked up the story last week when the first eaglet had hatched and a second hatching was just hours away.

Literally thousands of people across the nation are now following the view of the nest, which is available at the following website:

http://www.eagles.org/dceaglecam/

If all goes as planned, the Dale Hollow Lake eagle nest could be the next eagle watching craze, which in turn, could put a national spotlight on this regionand Dale Hollow Lake.

Tom Allen, General Manager and co-owner of Sunset Marina, told the Clinton County News recently of an effort he is involved with, through the Dale Hollow Marina Owner’s Association, to try and secure enough funding to install digital cameras in the area that would look down into the nest and give a year-round view of the eagle nest.

The ultimate goal would be to provide a website that would offer live views of the eagle nest .

Paired with the Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative, the effort has secured over half of the $20,000 goal for the high definition camera equipment installation costs.

Allen, a Clinton County native, said that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have approved the project, including easements on USACE land and that an adjacent property owner had agreed to a lease for power and fiber optic cable to be routed across his property.

He added that hopefully the project would have the camera installation complete in July or August of this year, provided the final portion of the funds are raised.

“The Eagle Cam Project only needs 375 more $25.00 donations to become a reality,” Allen told the Clinton County News last week, noting that a gofundme page had previously been established and the group was asking for donations through that page, hoping for donations of at least $25 from each person involved.

Presently, $10,560 has been raised in the past six months, including a $5,000 match from the Dale Hollow Marina Owner’s Association when the first $5,000 for the project had been raised.

Anyone interested in donating to the effort or learning more about the project can do so by going to this website:

https://www.gofundme.com/3w2ak33g

A pair of nesting eagles on Dale Hollow Lake are parents once again this spring.

The top photo shows the adult tending to a juvenile eagle, whose head is visible just to the left of the white feather head of the adult parent.

At left, one of the parents in the large nest that has been the home to the pair for the past six years or so.

An effort is underway to raise funding for the installation of a high definition camera that would provide a year-round view of the nest and could be viewed by the public through a website.

Photos by James Purkey