[MikeNC]

Beautiful Bird Glen. While in Alaska on training they were of course a common site. Glad they are making their way back home for our enjoyment. The racoons got into a couple bags of garbage in the back of my truck a couple days ago. The smell brought this 'eagle' into my yard to check out what was for breakfast

[Glen]

BANG

[Red]

Glen,

The spot where I've deer hunted for quite a few years during the firearm season has a Bald Eagle nest about 90' high up in a tree. I've hunted all around that tree and see the eagles pretty often. It's a huge nest, maybe the size of a car hood, though I'm not certain it's still active?

The lock and dam sites are ideal fishing for the birds since the water is always open even during extremely cold weather when a lot of water has turned to ice. I imagine injured or dissoriented fish are common in the churning water that would make them easy prey also.

[Glen]

That would make sense. Plus behind the dam fish get caught in pools when the dam re-opens & the water level drops. We don't see them often around here but they are being seen more often. There is a nesting pair within a 1/4 mile of my house here but we rarely ever get a glimpse of them. I'll see if I can figure out the coordinates for Google Earth & you can see where I'm at plus the huge,, almost big enough to be a lake,, pond behind my house.

[Glen]

If you use Google Earth type in Addy Polaris Brightwood, Ohio. The pond is just to the left. It's an active gravel pit. I live very close to both Addy's & the pond. I caught one of them in the backyard one afternoon but couldn't get the picture.

[AZZA]

I'm glad to hear Glen that the Bald Eagle is on the up and up. America without a bald eagle would be like Australia without a single species of Kangaroo or our Wedge Tailed Eagle. Red your a lucky and privelidged person to be able to hunt so close another hunter, even if it is a Bald Eagle.