Bald Eagles

[petitepedal]

Have you seen them? Are there many in location?

A program just mentioned they are making a come back....LOL they have been on the increase here for years...

https://www.nationaleaglecenter.org/

They are pretty common around here...If I commute via River Road...I probably see at  least 1 a day...

[team scooter]

There are many around here if you look for them. I usually see them along tree lines, between farm fields, etc. Interestingly my grand daughter and I saw one flying over a local amusement park called Little Amerricka  http://www.littleamerricka.com/#  this summer.

At first I thought it was a publicity stunt, but probably not. 

[Dirtyhip]

They are all over the place around here.

[sheep_herder]

We have quite a few along the rivers, and one pair nests in one of the parks in town.

[groupw]

They are growing in numbers around here, but they stay close to the rivers. Still pretty neat to see them. 

[Square Wheels]

Saw a bunch in Alaska.

[sheep_herder]

One of my wife"s taken this summer in Alaska

[ChrisL]

Don't have them in SoCal but I've seen them in the Eastern Sierra.  One memory that will stay with me forever was while I was float tubing in lake Mary (Mammoth Lakes).  It was a little slow end I'm just sitting in my tube soaking in the scenery. A bald eagle comes into view overhead, does a couple of loops and swoops in and snags a trout out of the water maybe 20 yards from me.

It was freaking bad ass!

[Zealot]

Yes, they've made a pretty good comeback here in the midAtlantic.

[Chris...]

Went to Alton IL about 5 years ago. Eagles everywhere.

[petitepedal]

We have tons of them

[Longjohn]

They are like pigeons around here but you're not allowed to shoot them.

[shootingstar]

I haven't see bald eagles in our prairie city yet. However they are seen by the river in our area. Golden eagles are more prevalent in our area.

In Vancouver, amazingly you might see the odd one here and there high up in a tree.  The duo below is on a totem pole not far from Granville Island Market, which is close to downtown.  Just 30 km. north of Vancouver is Brackendale Provincial Park where the bald eagles migrate and hang out in early January. Unfortunatley  https://cyclewriteblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/bald-eagle-fierce-majesty-at-attention/ if the salmon run is low, there's less of them.  Here they are when we visited the park:  https://cyclewriteblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/01/bald-eagle-in-wilderness-in-our-neighbourhood-brackendale-eagles-provincial-park-and-Vancouver/    

 

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

5 hours ago, Zealot said:

Yes, they've made a pretty good comeback here in the midAtlantic.

 

I remember the one we saw along the C&O

 

[Kirby]

I haven't seen any around here, but they are around.  I know my sister went on a bird walk one day and saw some.

[KrAzY]

I hear they taste like chicken

[shootingstar]

42 minutes ago, KrAzY said:

I hear they taste like chicken

It's illegal to kill bald eagles....at least in Canada.

[Slow_Guy_On_Bike]

Not too many in my neck of the woods, but there's a state park about 90 minutes away in Illinois (Starved Rock) that I take a trip to at least a couple of times each winter to see the Bald Eagles that have come down from the north to hang out along locks and dam on the Illinois River (Uttica, IL). I've gotten to within 10 to 15 feet of them on occasion. The first time I got that close, my first thought was "damn, they're a hell of a lot bigger than I thought they were."

[maddmaxx]

It's difficult to tell here in New England.  I think a lot of them are wearing rugs and are mistaken for something else.

[KrAzY]

9 hours ago, shootingstar said:

It's illegal to kill bald eagles....at least in Canada.

Same in the U.S., it is also illegal to have a feather unless you have special permission from the U.S. government. 

 

https://boingboing.net/2009/06/09/keeping-a-bald-eagle.html

[Zealot]

18 hours ago, Thaddeus Kosciuszko said:

 

I remember the one we saw along the C&O

 

That pair still nests there!