By the start of May to early June, thousands of bald eagles swarm the remaining ice flows / shores of the broad area of waters where Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron meet.
Fishing.
E L G S E S !!!
Fry Up An Eagle
Steve Miller band
I wanna fry up an eagle,
just to see.
Fry up an eagle,
use the colonel’s recipe.
It’s still illegal,
it shouldn’t be.
I need to know what one tastes like ...
The Black Suckerfish run has commenced. Creeks, streams, ditches, with a net and a burlap bag you can harvest 200 pounds in an hour. Pickled or smoked, they are great. Another month when the water warms up, not so much.
The dirt section of the dam at Cheesman Res. SW of Denver has Eagle/photographer gatherings, it’s kind of like an eclipse party, people helping each other with equipment issues, etc.
Every year in the winter eagles gather at remaining open waters, like at dams. Dozens can be seen at each site. Consider most lakes freeze over, so the eagles must migrate to open moving waters.
Nothing new here.
I know this sounds blasphemous, but I have a hard time seeing them as glorious icons, ever since I saw them perching all over the dump and scavenging in droves in Juneau, Alaska.
About 30 years ago, I saw 19 eagles sitting on a slab of ice on the Potomac River in Virginia. Back then, seeing an eagle was a much bigger deal than it is now. I still love seeing them.
“observed an astonishing moment when dozens of bald eagles gathered on frozen waters”
Astonishing, I guess, if you’ve never seen it before. It happens every year on the Mississippi, from the south end of Lake Pepin, on down.
More like hundreds, not just dozens.