Eagle Watching on the Mississippi River

Hope everbody's New Year is going well - we took a ride to LeClaire, Iowa over the weekend to watch eagles. Something we've not done before, it was amazing to see eagles so close.

 

We sawthem when we were at CICO, we opened our door and they were in the tree that would have been between your site and ours. Jay was exstatic. She loves the raptors.

 

Thanks Sarah. It's funny that you mentioned the whole turkey issue - I was thinking the same thing as I was looking at these birds, that penetrating look is incredible.

 

Thanks Evan. Those are both juveniles, and they're fighting over a fish - the upper bird has it in it's talons. Sometimes there'd be 2 or 3 birds chasing the bird that had a fish.

 

Thanks Jean, it was amazing to see them so close. I didn't make it into the town, but Peggy did while I was shooting. It was Sunday and most places in town were closed. But she did have a nice conversation with one of the guys from 'American Pickers', who is from LeClaire. She didn't know who he was (and I wouldn't have recognized him either), and after he left, the store clerk did one of those 'Do you know who that was?" It sounds like a nice town to visit again when things are open.