With an unseasonably and quite pleasantly warm Easter weekend and nieces in town for the holiday, we held the traditional egg hunt at the lake this year.
The youngest working hard to fill her basket.
Just as we arrived and headed towards the eggs, a bald eagle swooped in not more than 100 feet from us with its wings fully spread and looking majestic as the species almost always does in pictures. I think the bird was as surprised to see us as we were to see it. With a graceful u-turn, the eagle headed away without any encore fly-overs. I had my camera in hand, but in turning it on some setup screen showed up that I couldn’t get rid of in time to take a picture. Argh. I had heard of this bird being sighted a couple times last summer, but I never caught a glimpse. This is actually the first time I’ve seen an eagle of any kind in the wild. Maybe someday it will show itself again when my camera and I are ready. I can at least hope…
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