Photo of eagle on Fort Snelling gravestone touches hearts, goes viral

StarTribune.com ^ | August 10, 2011 | Jon Tevlin

[jjotto]

No it’s not photoshopped.

https://insider.foxnews.com/2015/05/26/amazing-photo-bald-eagle-perched-soldiers-fort-snelling-national-cemetery-gravestone

[Kartographer]

I have traded correspondence with Frank Glick a number of times and I assure you it is not.

My Sister was stationed up during her 20 years of service and remembers often seeing eagles over and around the cemetery.

[jjotto]

Excellent!

I used to drive by that cemetery regularly, and it was not unusual to see eagles hanging around. It’s next to the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers.

I have BIL buried there.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Is that your poem mentioned in the article?

[Kartographer]

Frank had it on his web page so most likely it is.

[Jim W N]

Roger that.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Nice.

[Kartographer]

Bald Eagle Lands on Grave at US Military Cemetery

https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/19/bald-eagle-lands-on-grave-at-us-military-cemetery/

[SecondAmendment]

I looks "photoshopped" to mee too, since the colors of the eagle seem out of whack with everything else in the pictue.

However this pic seems to be taken from an upload on twitter, which looks to be cropped and heavily compressed.

I wonder if the original untouched photo is online somewhere?

[Carriage Hill]

+10.

[Kartographer]

You know the trouble now days is some people are to quick to call someone a liar. Makes me long for the days when there was consequences for calling someone a liar, ones you needed to be prepared for especially if you were wrong.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I remember when I posted the original thread in ‘11. Doubters all came out of the woodwork then, as well.

[dinodino]

Very nice.

[newfreep]

Eagle bump

[jacknhoo]

Thank you. It is so beautifully done.

[GoldenPup]

Really Great. 🦅👍

[steve86]

Doesn’t the eagle seem unusually large?

[Chickensoup]

Not really. I have eagles in my yard occasionally. They are big big birds.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

From the article...

“As for the size of the bird?

The tombstones rise about 22 inches from the ground. Eagles can grow to 37 inches tall. So the proportion seems right.

I asked a cemetery employee if they ever see eagles.

“All the time,” she said. Her boss concurred.”

[Kartographer]

That sound right

Size and Wingspan
A female bald eagle’s body length varies from 35 to 37 inches; with a wingspan of 79 to 90 inches. The smaller male bald eagle has a body length of 30 to 34 inches; with a wingspan ranging from 72 to 85 inches. An eagle’s average weight is ten to fourteen pounds. Northern birds are significantly larger than their southern relatives.
Weight
Eagles skeletons weigh about half a pound (250 to 300 grams), and is only 5 to 6 percent of its total weight. The feathers weigh twice as much. Eagle bones are light, because they are hollow. The beak, talons, and feathers are made of keratin. Keratin is fibrous structural protein of hair, nails, horn, hoofs, wool, feathers, and of the epithelial cells in the outermost layers of the skin. The polypeptide chains of keratin are arranged in parallel sheets held together by hydrogen bonding.

http://evansbaldeagle.weebly.com/size-weight-and-wingspan.html