A night vision camera installed in December showed a pair of bald eagles nesting in Hays. In general, February is quite a sedentary month of mother eagle and it spends her days warming the eggs laid by her.

The mother eagle was asleep when she immediately got awakened as something was approaching the nest. A predatory raccoon attacked the nest and tried to hunt one of them and for once, the mother eagle even jumped back.

But then she opened up her seven-foot wing and thrust out her talons. Both the things were enough to scare away the raccoon. The mother eagle continued to scream till the time the raccoon moved away.

The Game Commission said raccoons are stealers of bird eggs. But it is quite rare that they have done such acts with eagles in these areas. Moreover, eagles are stronger and bigger birds and have enough weapons with them to tackle such incidents.

But viewers who watched the incident want that some sort of help should be provided so that such incidents can be prevented. They suggested coming up with a fence or a shield around the tree holding the nest.

Pennsylvania Game Commission spokesman Travis Lau said such a thing is no possible. When it comes to dealing with nature, it is about the survival of the fittest. "People have an attachment to the eagles, but that does not mean it's going to work out for the eagles. We hope it does, but we need to let nature take its course", affirmed Lau.

Lau also informed about federal law that prohibits humans from coming within 660 feet of an eagle nest. The law has been made to avoid any sort of harassment and disturbance to birds by humans.

Even if the adult eagle flies off, the eaglets will jump and will try to find their parents. A healthy rise has been witnessed in Pennsylvania's eagle population. Some two decades back, there were about a dozen of breeding pairs but now there are 250 breeding pairs. Policing all the nests would not be possible for the commission, said Pittsburgh's National Aviary ornithologist Bob Mulvihill.