Perhaps I should have known, but I didn’t: bald eagles congregate on the eastern shore of Onondaga Lake during the winter months and can viewed from the mall parking lot and a creekside trail nearby. After reading about it in the newpaper, we decided to make a trip to the mall to see some eagles.
We could see a couple in the distance in the trees on the other side of the tracks at the mall, but they looked so small in the distance, and none of them were in flight. We then elected to park near the creek and walk the trail toward the lake, but the end of the trail is under construction and we didn’t see any birds, so we began to walk back to the car.
Once we were in the car and about to pull away, I saw a shadow move across the sky and come to rest in the trees on the other side of the creek. We exited the car, walked approx 150 feet away to the edge of the trail and we watched an eagle eat his dinner for 10 minutes. We needed to use binoculars to see it effectively, but they got to see it … that was most important. While they were watching the bird through binoculars, I watched through my camera lens.
As is typical of me, I was able to capture a nice snapshot.
