Avid bird watchers and photographers are flocking to the banks of the Scioto River to see a mating pair of bald eagles in their nest.
Apollo is one of the two raptors that have a nest near Grandview Heights. Some speculate the pair are now parents to a clutch of one or two eaglets.
Chuck Cook, of Columbus, is one of three photographers who sat on the benches installed along a trail off Dublin Road Friday at noon. He believes he was photographing Apollo, the male bald eagle.
Apollo was fidgeting in his nest awaiting the return of his mate.
Doug Carson, who owns a camera with a large zoom lens, believes the mate is an eagle named Athena because of an injury to the female eagle's eye.
Cook has been photographing the pair since early this year. Cook said he hasn't spotted any eaglets yet with his own equipment, but others on social media have spotted the parents feeding and the small heads of the eaglets occasionally peak up from the large nest.
"It's why it's so special to see, you know, because you don't see them every day and it's good they're coming back," Cook said. "It's something everybody needs to appreciate that, to see that, because it's beautiful in the sky when they fly."
Eagle populations have rebounded in the United States since a low point in the 1960s.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources says this is one of seven documented nests in Franklin County. Hundreds of others are scattered around the state.
