Posted on 02/14/2006 7:00:29 AM PST by edcoil
Happy Valentines Day -
I heard our national symbol The American Bald Eagle is to be soaring again.
Is this a great omen?
Ask Cheney!!
What a site they are. Most of the Bald Eagles in Ontario are on the north shore of Lake Erie, so those are probably the same group that are likely coming from down your way.
I'll have to get up there sometime. I remember Mike Stevens doing a "Pennsylvania Road" piece on them last year. Awesome.
I live near the nuke plant (outside of Berwick), and occasionally see an eagle flying along the river.
They started looking closer and saw a bunch of ordinary eagles that were doing comb-overs.
How do you get them in the light bulb?
Does this mean that the lady who's rotting in jail because she gave Hillary a headdress made of moulted Eagle feathers can get out now?
Maybe eagle-bone whistles will make a comeback.
The eagle next to the road looked like he was the world's emperor as he looked down his beak at me. I wished that I had brought a camera along on that trip.
Exactly! I couldn't believe how many I saw in Alaska.
Within a few weeks, you'll be able to see them start to nest, lay their egg(s), watch the eggs hatch, etc., all the way through the first flight of the eaglets.
If you drive down the Mississippi, at various points this time of the year, it is possible to see actual flocks of eagles. They like to stand on the ice overlooking the current to check out the piscine talent. Recently my wife and I counted more than thirty gathered in one spot just south of the I-90 bridge between La Crosse and Onalaska, Wisconsin. They were actually on the Black River which flows into the Miss at La Crosse. Other rivers like the Wisconsin around Sauk City have large flocks also.
I hear they're pretty good when roasted over a burning crucifix.
Saw two of them outside Colville, Wa. the other day. One landed in a tree above my car. Awesome.
I've never heard turkeys called that. Sounds like a different bird.
What we call Turkey's today is not what Ben wanted but back then what they called Turkey's was actually similar to the Austrian grouse.
So when Ben wanted Turkeys as the national symbol it is not todays turkeys but those of the period.
Yummy! Get the barbecue grill ready!
Errr....I mean....good news. ;-)
tidbit of our history. Hope it helps.
http://www.greatseal.com/symbols/turkey.html
We were really excited to see an American Bald Eagle in a field not far from where we live. Took off clutching a rabbit.
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