Saw this on one of our locale newspaper sites and wanted to share. Where I like to go camping there's a mated pair that are always circling right outside the redcliff wall beside the campgrounds. With a good telescope you can see just how gorgeous and huge these birds are.

http://www.kutv.com/media/news/3/1/a/31aebdb6-5290-472c-8fa4-5d3bad5b1700/Original.jpg

Not sure if that's going to work so assuming it doesn't go to www.kutv.com (http://www.kutv.com) and scroll down to pictures of the day. You'll see two Bald Eagles diving for carp.

Magnificent animals.

Look like good eatin' too.

Winter Haven has lakes EVERYWHERE!!!, and there are quite a few of these guys and ospreys as well. Fun to watch catch stuff.

They sure are a much better choice for our National Symbol than the turkey.....

WOW, very nice pic. 3 thumbs up (fyi, thats 2 thumbs up with a hard-on). Halo if you've never had the privilage of seeing one in RL magnificent while bieng the best we have language wiseis really insufficent to the task.

I'm lucky because living in WA. state i not only get to the see them often but a RL shrieking Harpy we call governor too.

A few years back i was working in the Wishka valley outside of Aberdeen WA. on the roadway about half way up from the valley floor to the ridge top 35 feet in the air when something caught my eye.
My jaw dropped in awe as i watched an Eagle gliding towards me, eye level wings fully spread. about 15-20 feet before he was going to crash into my forehead he "twitched" his wings rose up and passed straight above my head no more than 8 or 10 feet above my head, wings fully spread in a glide the whole time. 20 seconds of life that i will never forget.

Just down the road at one of the lakes we have a nest of them. I haven't seen any yet myself but hear coworkers talk of witnessing their dives. I'd love to see one in the wild, they are so majestic. Cool pic thanks for sharing :)

We get those and several other birds of prey fishing the rivers up here. I wonder if they don't show off a little bit for the fishermen, given some of the acrobatics you see occasionally (similar to observed behavior in horses who are around cameras a lot).

We get those and several other birds of prey fishing the rivers up here. I wonder if they don't show off a little bit for the fishermen, given some of the acrobatics you see occasionally (similar to observed behavior in horses who are around cameras a lot).

That is something to wonder, dolphins as well as horses as you mentioned, show off for audiences. When i surf, you can see dolphins just swimming, when you get out in the water with them, its fun time.

Fantastic pic! Thanks for sharing.

Just last week on my morning drive into work (a fairly rural drive, through a lot of farm land/development mix) I saw one of these magnificent birds sitting atop it's kill in a corn field, casually swiveling it's head to check for any daring to interrupt it's meal.

I am likely just an old softie, but I always get a tug in the chest when I see these survivors going about their daily business as if we had never almost destroyed the species.

as if we had never almost destroyed the species.

yea the Bald Eagle comeback is amazing. just when we had them on the brink of extinction along come the Liberal Pussies to save the day.

I spend many hours watching Bald Eagles at my cabin in Northern Wisconsin. We have a couple very large Hemlocks at the waters edge they sit in all day next to our pier. I catch pan fish and if they swallow the hook, I have no mercy on them ...they always end up Eagle food (hooks removed of course but they don't live to long afterwards).

Saw this on one of our locale newspaper sites and wanted to share. Where I like to go camping there's a mated pair that are always circling right outside the redcliff wall beside the campgrounds. With a good telescope you can see just how gorgeous and huge these birds are.

http://www.kutv.com/media/news/3/1/a/31aebdb6-5290-472c-8fa4-5d3bad5b1700/Original.jpg

Not sure if that's going to work so assuming it doesn't go to www.kutv.com (http://www.kutv.com) and scroll down to pictures of the day. You'll see two Bald Eagles diving for carp.


Thank you for fixing the link.

My aunt used to run a raptor rescue center in Alaska, and I got to hold one of these birds while they did something to it - they really are massive, and unbelievably powerful. Incredibly impressive to watch them fish.

Way cool, i'm jealous Kanyli.

yea the Bald Eagle comeback is amazing. just when we had them on the brink of extinction along come the Liberal Pussies to save the day.

Sequim has quite a few nesting pairs. There is plenty land they prefer with many tall lone trees with open fields and many ponds as well as the Dungeness River near. They are almost, beleive it or not, becoming pests. What can you do, though. They are the national symbol.