Re: Eagle watching

Wow!!  Very cool.

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Patricia Dickson <pdickson@sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> My husband took me to watch eagles yesterday.  We drove towards the
> Illinois
> River, planning on driving all the way to the Mississippi in Alton,Ill.  We
> didn't see any for a long long time and I began to think we wouldn't see
> any
> at all.  I was enjoying being out for a drive anyway.  Then we saw one, it
> was
> just sitting in a tree above a lot to get  in line to cross the Brussels
> Ferry.  From there we saw more and more until we saw so many right past the
> bridge at Alton.  I could count as many as 25 easily.  So amazing to watch.
> We also saw 2 huge nests.  The information we picked up said that the nest
> can
> be 10 feet across.  They were huge, with such big sticks.   I think I could
> easily say we saw over 50 eagles in total for the day.  Good day!
> Tricia
>
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