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and he wonders am i still a free bird, or just a part of the machine?

mood: ecstatic
music: Criminal Minds - Birthright
On the way to the climbing gym tonight, I saw an enormous bird circling over the Connecticut River. It wasn't a red-tailed hawk or a turkey vulture, our two common large raptors. It was larger than the first, and didn't fly with a rowing motion, nor did it sail on stiff wings held like as shallow V, like the second. It was dark in color, and its wingbeats were dexterous, grasping, like the graceful beckoning of fingers.

I think it was a juvenile bald eagle.

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[info]obsfuscation

I keep seeing what I believe to be an eagle 'round these parts, although the birds of prey we are "supposed" to have around here are all red-tailed and -shouldered hawks. We call him Pharoah. He's HUGE.
Posted on Mar. 27th, 2008 01:33 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]ellen_fremedon

They're making a huge comeback along the upper Mississippi; ever little creek and slough near my parents' house in Iowa has had a nesting pair for the last seven or eight years now.
Posted on Mar. 27th, 2008 01:37 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]mecurtin

I think you're probably right -- they are certainly found along the CT river these days. There's an EagleCam at a nest in Gill, MA, and they are incubating as we speak type!
Posted on Mar. 27th, 2008 01:39 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]chpln_vindictus

I have seen a Bald Eagle slowly pass across the Charter Oak Bridge in Hartford. Was a very very cool sight.
Posted on Mar. 28th, 2008 03:06 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]andyleggett

I wrote this poem called "Eagles in Sacramento"... something similar to this, though the thing about wingbeats make me think it might not have been an actual eagle after all...>.>

Oh, I finally posted my "review" of Dust. It's better than the one for Carnival, so I'm making some progress; still sucky. But hey, it's how I feel now. ;)
Posted on Mar. 27th, 2008 01:46 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]treize64

Not sure, but I think I saw one too on Yale campus earlier today. It was a lot bigger than the birds around it, that's for sure.
Posted on Mar. 27th, 2008 01:58 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]slobbit

Could be a juv from the pair we have that nest up here by the Holyoke dam. I see them frequently when I'm schelping back and forth to work, and we are often treated to their circular flyovers at our house.
Posted on Mar. 27th, 2008 02:15 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]ashnistrike

I have to ask ... by "the Holyoke dam" do you mean "the dam on the Connecticut river between Holyoke and South Hadley MA"? Because if you did, that would be incredibly cool, even though I no longer live within walking distance of that spot.

-Nameseeker
Posted on Apr. 3rd, 2008 01:17 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]slobbit

Yes, I mean that very same one. We've lived on the river in Springfield for 10 years now, and I think they've been here that long. Five years, at the very least.
Posted on Apr. 3rd, 2008 11:53 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]stwish

yes, i though i have seen one of those too.. Real big, shorter neck and fly real well
Posted on Mar. 27th, 2008 03:06 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]matociquala

Yeah. Mastery of the air and all that.
Posted on Mar. 27th, 2008 03:07 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]stwish

a neagle.. or an iggle.. good to see the big guys in the city.. Hippies were good for something. Not much but something
Posted on Mar. 27th, 2008 03:23 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]purplecthulhu

Gratuitous Tull quotes! Yay!
Posted on Mar. 27th, 2008 08:23 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]pixel39

If you're ever in this part of the country during winter, take the train down to LaCrosse. Just south of Redwing where the Mississippi flows into the St. Croix, where the water stays free from ice, dozens at a time will hover on the thermals coming off the snow and the rest of the river ice. Really an awe-inspiring sight.
Posted on Mar. 27th, 2008 03:39 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply
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