Where am I most likely to see a bald eagle on Catalina?
Bald eagles can be seen soaring the skies above Catalina Island. There are nests with mating pairs of bald eagles at Pinnacle Peak on the Island’s east end, one at the tip of the west end, another at Two Harbors and another at Twin Rocks near Long Point on the Channel side of the Island. There is at least one eagle that likes to perch on trees around the Catalina Freight Company, at Avalon’s Pebbly Beach, offering unique photo opportunities to visitors to that area of town. The Institute for Wildlife Studies (IWS) has two video cameras mounted near nests. These images can be viewed at their website (www.iws.org under the menu “Interactive.”) Additionally, IWS keeps Pimu, a captive bald eagle in a large enclosure near Middle Ranch, which is open to visitors on permitted tours to the Island’s interior. Pimu was injured and cannot be released, and now supports educational programs about the conservation of bald eagles.
