Photo by BarrytheBirder
My old friend, Jim Hadcock, spent the Christmas holidays at his cottage, in the Algonquin highlands, and for only the second time in forty years saw a Bald Eagle looking for fish in an open patch of icy water, in the lake where his cottage is located. Bald Eagles are often seen fishing along the north shore of Lake Ontario and over the larger lakes in central Ontario. They are much more seldom seen in the southern, farmland-strip of Ontario where the lakes are usually smaller. A Bald Eagle with a large fish in its talons is a remarkable sight indeed. The first Bald Eagle I ever saw, with a fish in its talons, was above a ferry journey between Vancouver and Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, 60 years ago on a cross-country hitchhiking trip of Canada (Toronto to Powell River) with a high-school buddy. However, I took the Eagle photo above at a raptor presentation at Cold Creek Conservation Area, north of Toronto, many years ago.
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BarrytheBirder
1 comment:
Amazing that he got such a close up shot.
I saw just one on 12 Mile Bay on GBay south of Parry Sound twice in ten years.
Recently my friend and I were fishing out in the open islands north of 12 Mile Bay and found an active nest on a small island ironically called Forage Island. There were 3 young Eagles just starting to fledge. This would have been in late July.
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