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Saw our national bird soar by, just plain beautiful

May 7, 2007 10:47PM PDT

Yesterday, while working on patching my road, saw a bald eagle fly-by. As beautiful as that was, there was a fish in its talons. Understand, I live in Ohio and at one time, roughly only 20+ bald eagles were accounted for in the whole figgn' state. They have resurged their ranks since, but my flying neighbor has lived across the road in an old microwave tower and is very mature(white head). While, about 10-15mi(as crow flies) from the Lake Erie, maybe 1-2mi. from river and 1/4mi. from stream/creek. I just wondered where he got the fish as it was big one. I figured, the bird passed at 80-115ft. above my head. Wouldn't have noticed until I wiped my brow.

humming glory -----Willy Happy USMC=eagle, globe& anchor

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I never saw one....
May 7, 2007 11:28PM PDT

.... until the early 1990's. Then it was in a small zoo in Alamogordo, NM. It had been injured to the point it could never be released back into the wild. I was awe-struck by its magnificence.

But last year I saw one flying along the river behind me. An effort to save them has paid off in my state!

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My former boss and her hubby went on a cruise to Alaska...
May 7, 2007 11:30PM PDT

Where she saw a bald Eagle in the wild for the first time. She was very impressed...the first day or so. After a few days she said there were so many of them that she was reminded of pigeons.

Too much of a good thing.

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Buzzards are back
May 8, 2007 12:25AM PDT

Well, we also got "turkey buzzards" here too in large numbers. They're the same ones that visit Hinkley, OH. and return like California shallows to Capistrano(sp). These however have increased it seems over the years and are pretty much like pigeons as well. There's a large pine tree on main street here in the town that seems to attract the buzzards more than others, maybe because of space/gaps on the top branches for a perfect rookery. Well, at least they clean-up the road kills(raccoons, squirrels and such) and thus less sailor rabbits. -----Willy

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Just remember, some of the founding fathers wanted to make
May 8, 2007 4:08AM PDT

the turkey our national bird.