” A minute or so later it crossed the river right in front of me - white head and tail feathers - a Bald Eagle!”
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Wow, Bob! That’s really cool. Such beautiful, majestic birds. Thank goodness the turkey isn’t our national bird, ‘eh???
Our oldest, who moved to Colorado to work for his brother saw one this spring, while working. He said it was so amazing.
Good omen for sure.
Petey
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I live in a semi-rural county of Maryland very close to the Chesapeake Bay. Our white tail deer population is rather large, and seeing a dead one by the side of the road is rather common. Every winter, we have at least one sighting of a bald eagle feasting on one of these carcasses, sometimes in the company of vultures.
In early March, I was driving to the grocery store and spotted a lone bald eagle with a carcass barely off the shoulder of the road. I slowly approached him, driving ever so slowly on the shoulder, snapping pictues with my phone through the windshield. I was amazed to find that it wasn’t until the front of my car was withing about 5 feet of him that he felt he needed to move.
I got my phone ready to get a good shot of him taking flight. But he opted, instead, to hop into to some nearby brush. I could barely see him, and I would not have spotted him in there if I had not witnessed his entering the brush.
After apologizing for interrupting his lunch, I drove off.
Such a privilege to witness this magnificent sight.