The Department of Homeland Security plans to build a new mega-headquarters on the abandoned west campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. It’s near a bald eagle nest, the only one in the capital. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
The west campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital has been closed for many years, making the grounds a nice place for wildlife. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
The west campus of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital has been closed for many years, making the grounds a nice place for wildlife. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
A bald eagle chick, 8 weeks old and not yet able to fly, practices flapping its wings at a nest in Maryland. The nest in D.C. is in a location fiercely protected by park rangers. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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A bald eagle chick, 8 weeks old and not yet able to fly, flaps its wings in Maryland. The nest in D.C. is in an undisclosed location near St. Elizabeths Hospital. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Stephen Syphax of the National Park Service and Craig Koppie of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have been monitoring the pair of nesting eagles, the only pair in D.C. The eagles have been returning to their nest since they built it in 2001. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
A red-tailed hawk flies over the west campus of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
There were an estimated 417 bald eagles in the U.S. when they were placed on the endangered species list in 1967. Now there are about 1,500 in Chesapeake Bay states alone, but only one pair in D.C. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
