bald eagles converge

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

https://www.wmur.com/article/kansas-city-forest-city-bald-eagles-loess-bluffs/69963229?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email - Morning Weekend Headlines&utm_source=696127b1900fb9a1752329419deff6a9&brzu=91bf501956aeff33f3627d61b366373da59907f6988d2b9675a014f549ad983c&lctg=66e0d8013943740060a10e67

 

Less than 100 miles north of Kansas City is a yearly spectacle — the annual bald eagle migration at Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge.

"We've been seeing an increase in eagles now for years," said William Kutosky, wildlife refuge manager.

Missouri is one of the best-known states for wintering eagles, and 2025-2026 is proving no exception. Loess Bluffs celebrated a new bald eagle record at the refuge just last week.

[irish ike, SASS #43615]

Making certain insect killers, like DDT, and being placed on the endangered list they have mad a great comeback. When we went to Alaska they were all over the place.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Used to have hundreds of mated pairs converge at Goldwater Lake five miles for our home.  Every year there would be scores of hatchlings survive and eagles were in my yard almost every day for a few weeks.

 

Many less now because of "peoplization": roads, housing and other buildings, power lines,  and a so many other reasons I can't count them any more.

 

I miss them a lot.

[Eyesa Horg]

We've started to see a few regularly as they are having better breeding success. It always makes my day when I see them. 

[Rye Miles #13621]

We’ve been seeing them around here. Lots of lakes, rivers and creeks and trees. They’ve made somewhat of a comeback here in NE Ohio

[Michigan Slim]

Several nests around here. We also see them regularly at the cabin. 

I shoot racoons up there and throw them in my food plot. An eagle found a great place to eat 

[Warden Callaway]

We see them often on the farm or on our drives in Central Missouri.  My sister and brother-in-law take drives almost daily and know were many nests and when they hatch out chicks, etc.  She's got a good camera and get good pictures she posts on FB.

[watab kid]

live ojn a river that dumpss into the mississippi a few blocks east of here , we get a couple in the back yard every year and  there is a site south of here in winnonna that has a large gathering every year 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I'd been in this house about a month when one showed up in my yard.  By the time I got a camera he was gone.  Next week it was a female atop my mailbox.

 

We still have a lot, but not like before.  Also have about a dozen kinds of hawks around (my favorites are peregrines), a few kinds of owls, road runners, grackles crows, ravens, and others.

 

Used to have pronghorns until some AH developer got the government to  move them  about 20 miles north.  Now we have tickey-tackey bungalows stacked one on another over a few dozen acres and more being built every day.

Edited January 12 by Forty Rod SASS 3935

[Sheriff Dill]

A few weeks back while traveling on I-89 I saw a bald eagle in Montpelier VT and then another in Waterbury VT which roughly 10 miles north of Montpelier. Definitely thinking two different eagles as I don’t see how the first one would have made a loop that fast when it was flying south and we were headed north. Another beautiful bird that has made a comeback here in VT is the Osprey. Northern Lake Champlain has lots of nests built for them and lots of naturally built ones. 

Edited January 11 by Sheriff Dill

[Warden Callaway]

 

Eagle over dead deer.