Caspar World

This morning, a neighbor called to say that there was a bald eagle not too far down the street, and would we like to see it.

We said sure we would. So she came by and took us about half a mile down the road to where she’d seen it. Sure enough, it was roosting in a birch tree across the river. It was an amazing thing to see, even from across the river. It was not too far from where a deer had tried to cross the river and had gotten stuck in the ice and died. The carcass, half submerged, was pretty well picked over. For Silas it was a toss-up which of the two sights was more exciting, the eagle or the dead deer.

I’d taken a camera, a little Kodak pocket EasyShare, which most of the time does just fine. But with a 3x optical zoom, it wasn’t enough to get a really good shot, so I used the digital zoom to get in a little closer. The result is a little washed out and pixelated, but you can still see the bird well enough to tell what it is.

If it’s still there tomorrow, and I have a chance, and can find my other camera with a better zoom (which seems to have disappeared after the move) I’ll see if I can get a better shot.

[Update Feb 12: I found the camera, but this afternoon when we went back down to that stretch of the river we didn't see the eagle. We'll keep checking back over the next couple days, but we suspect it's moved on.]