Tarentum resident Jim Bonner, executive director of the local Audubon Society, has heard many bird stories. Over the years, he has fielded countless inquiries from the public to the Audubon Society of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s headquarters at Beechwood Farms in Fox Chapel. But there was something different about a recent call.
Courtesy of Robert Bevan
Courtesy of Don German/U.S. Steel
A pair of bald eagles have made a nest near the U.S. Steel Irvin plant in West Mifflin along the Monongahela River, across from Glassport.
Courtesy of Robert Bevan
Courtesy of Robert Bevan
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A pair of bald eagles chose another unlikely urban spot to nest in the once highly industrialized Pittsburgh area the U.S. Steel Irvin plant in West Mifflin along the Monongahela River, across from Glassport.
There are no other known eagle nests in the state at a steel mill,