With the final touches completing Buddy the Bald Eagle’s new enclosure during the week of September 19, Buddy finally made the big move on September 21! 

Video tour of Buddy’s New Enclosure

The big move:

Video of Buddy’s Big Move

Once placed in the enclosure, Buddy sat on his “mailbox perch” — a familiar object — and looked around his new place.  After a few minutes of taking it all in, he flew to his highest swinging perch. 

On hand for the “grand opening” were staff from the Staunton branch of Kjellstrom & Lee, the construction firm that has provided terrific assistance to the Center in building  Buddy’s new home (and an earlier reconstruction of the Center’s largest eagle flight-pens).  

Special thanks to all of the Wildlife Center and Buddy supporters who purchased a 2011 Garden of Eagles calendar.  The proceeds from this calendar made the Buddy enclosure possible! 

December 19 update 

With continued construction at the Wildlife Center, including trenching and digging to lay conduit and cable for the Center’s web cam network, the Kjellstrom & Lee construction crew have also been fine-tuning the area in front of Buddy’s new enclosure.   While the main goal of the re-grading the area was to control the flooding and erosion from heavy rains — the Kjellstrom & Lee construction crew went the extra mile (or two) to make Buddy’s pen a truly special area!