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Wife happened to be looking out the rear window of the middle bedroom a few minutes ago, just getting ready to go off to the nature center. Two mature bald eagles soaring over the park in the next block....

I got there in time to see them flapping away toward the river.

Date: 2005-07-30 06:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ccfinlay.livejournal.com
Cool! I've glimpsed bald eagles twice in Ohio, but both were immature and none were near my rear window.

Date: 2005-07-30 08:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com
Whereabouts in Ohio? Wife never saw any when she worked for the Cleveland Metro Park system, but that was back in the Dreamtime when they were rara avis indeed, just starting to recover from DDT.

Date: 2005-07-30 08:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ccfinlay.livejournal.com
Two years ago, on the eastern side of Kelleys Island in Lake Erie, crossing from the direction of Pelee' Island toward Marblehead/Sandusky. And then last summer, along the Olentangy River park system in northern Franklin County headed toward Delaware.

I'd love to see a mature one in the wild, or better a pair, doing more than just passing from one place to another. I understand they're making a comeback in Ohio, so the chances are improving.

Date: 2005-07-30 10:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com
We see them fairly regularly here, with at least one breeding pair within a few miles of the house. One time, riding my bicycle, I had an adult eagle practically flying wingman, just cruising along at the same speed about twenty feet off my right shoulder as we headed down the road beside the river. He got bored after a mile or so and went fishing. Or chasing ospreys, after _their_ fish...

Date: 2005-07-30 12:58 pm (UTC)
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Ah, wonderful. One of my very best moments like that was seeing a red fox running through the front yard of a neighbor. Very bad news for the fox who'd been washed out of a den over in the wetlands by a rainstorm, but oh my. You just don't see things like that in the city. Happy ending: the fox got successfully moved to a better place.

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