Q: The media has been all over the two nesting eagles and their hatchlings in Washington. This makes me wonder about our two bald eagles in the tree on Berry College’s campus in Rome. Can you give an update on them?
—Willis Reasons, Roswell
A: Two eaglets hatched in February, the sixth and seventh that have hatched in the five years since two bald eagles moved to a nest on Berry College's main campus.
The eagles had two eaglets in 2013, one in 2014 and two more in 2015, prior to this year. One, named B6, hatched on Feb. 14, and the other, named B7, hatched the next day.
“… The eaglets enjoy watching the students in the parking lot as well as the many visitors who come to admire them,” a blog (berryeagles.tumblr.com) that monitors the nest stated on March 23.
Berry College doesn’t name the eaglets because they’re “wild creatures and we do not want to personalize them.”
Berry College and Georgia Power have installed streaming “Nest Cams” that allow anyone to watch the eagles and the nest.
To view the eagles, go to berry.edu/eaglecam.
Q: On the front page of a recent AJC, there was a photo of President Barack Obama at the Museum of the City of Havana. Whose portrait is he obscuring?
—Margaret Duckworth, Tucker
A: Obama stood in front of a portrait of President Abraham Lincoln, painted by James R. Lambdin in 1863, NBCNews.com reported.
Lambdin, who lived from 1807-89, painted portraits of 15 U.S. presidents, from John Quincy Adams to James Garfield.
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