My photo files could use some decluttering and reorganization and I do a little work on cleaning them up once in a while. I often find a forgotten good or interesting photo when I do. I have decided to share these little discoveries in a open ended series of posts showing photographs “found in the clutter” that is my messy file system.
First up is an in-flight photo of a mature Bald Eagle that I took in January 2019. It was flying over the mouth of the Merrimack River near the Salisbury State Reservation in Salisbury Massachusetts. This large raptor dwarfs almost every other raptor in North America. If you see a large bird that looks like big board gliding through the air, that’s a Bald Eagle. The lumber reference comes from the way it holds those big wings flat as in the photo below.
We can get a large influx of eagles in the winter as the lakes and rivers in northern New England freeze. Eagles from up north will migrate toward the coast to join our resident eagles where there is more open water available for them. The Bald Eagle population has rebounded from serious decline caused by pesticides that damaged their eggs and by human activity. There are still environmental threats such as lead ammunition in scavenged prey and loss of habitat.
Birds in My Viewfinder 