Nesting eagles add twist to battle with Wal-Mart What has been a fierce battle between Wal-Mart officials planning to build a new supercenter and Tarpon Springs residents bent on preserving land on the Anclote River just got more complicated. Nature has thrown a punch of its own. A bald eagle pair has built a sturdy and federally protected nest on the property. For the birds, it's an ideal site: a live pine tree with branches that twist under the nest to support it, a river with clear water to fish and not much disturbance nearby. But it's less than 200 feet from the walls of a planned nearly 5-acre Wal-Mart supercenter. Although bald eagles are no longer on the list of threatened and endangered species, they are still protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. The laws prohibit killing, selling or otherwise harming eagles, their nests or eggs....