{"id":116702,"date":"2026-02-18T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116702\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:14:08","slug":"video-shows-wild-turkey-visiting-bald-eagle-nest-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116702\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows wild turkey visiting bald eagle nest in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wild turkey stopped by the Glen Hazel bald eagle nest on Tuesday morning, and the moment was caught on video.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/764102703434267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\">In a post on Facebook<\/a>, PixCams shared a four-minute video of the animal perched on a branch feet away from the nest. The wild turkey kept a safe distance from the nest as one of the bald eagles looked on. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/screenshot-2026-02-17-202634.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-02-17-202634.png \" height=\"341\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A wild turkey stopped by the Glen Hazel bald eagle nest on Feb. 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo Credit: PixCams)<\/p>\n<p>After checking out the area for a couple of minutes, the wild turkey flew away around 7:50 a.m. PixCams&#8217; Facebook post said a wild turkey visiting the nest is a &#8220;new one for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pittsburghs-cherished-hays-bald-eagles-nest-taken-down-during-tuesdays-storms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">nest in Hays collapsed<\/a> in the summer of 2024 during a storm, the eagles rebuilt across the Monongahela River in the city&#8217;s Glen Hazel neighborhood around April 2025. The pair has been breeding in the area since 2013, with experts saying the location is the perfect spot to raise a family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The river is right there, there&#8217;s abundant fish, and it really is a perfect place to raise young eaglets,&#8221; Rachel Handel with the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pittsburghs-cherished-hays-bald-eagles-nest-taken-down-during-tuesdays-storms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">told KDKA in August 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Glen Hazel eagles egg watch<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday night, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/will-pittsburgh-hays-bald-eagles-rebuild-nest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">bald eagle nest in Glen Hazel<\/a> is on egg watch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/hays-bald-eagles-first-egg-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">the first egg was laid<\/a>\u00a0on Feb. 17. One year later, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pittsburgh-hays-bald-eagles-lay-1st-egg-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first egg and only egg was laid<\/a> on Feb. 20, and there were no eggs in 2025 after the storm knocked down the nest.  <\/p>\n<p>Watch the eagle cam<\/p>\n<p>The Glen Hazel eagle camera is up and running, thanks to the hard work from the team at PixCams. A live video feed of the nest can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/hays-bald-eagle-cam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">here<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for more bald eagle videos, there is also a livestream of the pair at the U.S. Steel plant in West Mifflin. It can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/us-steel-bald-eagle-cam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wild turkey stopped by the Glen Hazel bald eagle nest on Tuesday morning, and the moment was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[44030,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-116702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bald-eagle","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}