We use to have the Fordham Baldies in the Bronx when I wuz a kid in the 50s and 60s.
Spotted one here in Florida yesterday.
There was one perched in a tree for about 3 hours next to our church here in Brentwood Sunday. We’re about 12 miles from downtown Nashville.
Raptors were far from uncommon in Harlem when I worked there in the 90’s. I once saw a female merlin sitting on a pipe in the basement of a building at the corner of 133 and Lenox.
I see them regularly flying by the Pentagon near 14th St. Bridge on my way into work. I often wonder how many other commuters see them. I’ve also seen them flying over the Capitol and the Library of Congress dome.
hey have a breeding pair here in northwest Jersey..they used to have a web cam on the nest to watch the babies cannot remem ber the web site, do not know if it is still up...
One of the most spectacular things that I have witnessed was a bald eagle fishing next to our boat on a lake in California. The eagle would circle and then we would get tired of watching it and the next thing was a loud bang. It was the eagle slapping its wings on the surface of the water.
Dad said that was to stun the fish that was near enough to the surface for the eagle to catch. About half the time the bird would come up out of the water with a fish.
As the eagle lifted off the water, it shook itself just as a wet dog would. Spinning off the excess water and it was not just a little bit of water either. About 15 feet off the surface the shake and rolling took place, it dropped a tiny bit in altitude and then began to climb back into the sky.
It was the impact sound on the water and the shake that I’ll never forget.
there’s a pair with a giant nest along the river outside of higgensport, oh. (about an hour away from cincinnati).
At first I was thinking Charlie Rangle.
Last couple years I’ve been seeing bald eagles everywhere. Even in corn fields far from water...feeding on rabbits/squirrels etc.
It was great until the Manhattan coyote got hold of it.
eagles are glorious...
eagles are not pristine though.they'll feed on a dead deer just as easily as a coyote would.