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Birding Reports => Southern Ontario Reports => Topic started by: Soaring Hawk on December 25, 2010, 01:37:13 PM

Title: MY FIRST BALD EAGLE!!!
Post by: Soaring Hawk on December 25, 2010, 01:37:13 PM

I am almost 25 and have been birding since I was about 10....   I went to my hometown of Sarnia for family Christmas.  I looked out my mother's balcony window and saw my first ever Bald Eagle.  It was a large first year female... I'm guessing a female because it was extra large.  This was my first wild eagle ever seen.  I have seen many hawk, falcon, and owl species but I guess Santa decided that for Xmas day he would send me a message through the eagle!.

Anyways it was flying and soaring westward towards the St.Clair river.  The sighting was right at noon. It was about 6 kilometers inland over suburbs and shopping centres.... quite high in the sky.

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Post by: Reuven_M on December 25, 2010, 10:04:08 PM

Congrats!

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Post by: Moira on December 25, 2010, 10:42:20 PM

Always so satisfying to get a new lifer - congrats!

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Post by: Sahria on December 26, 2010, 09:30:48 PM

Congrats!! I remember seeing my first Bald Eagle, it was such an exciting experience!

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Post by: ravynne40 on December 27, 2010, 08:15:53 AM

Congrats on the sighting, I have only seen Eagles in zoo's or at Raptor Centres, have not seen in the wild yet but I am always hopeful :)

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Post by: Axeman on December 28, 2010, 01:23:17 PM

And now you know what all the hype is about ! They really are breathtaking (in the wild)...I've seen a few and it NEVER gets old...and then there's the thrill of the unexpected sighting of a personal avian holy grail...for me it was the scarlet tanager. Congrats ! May you see many more.

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Post by: beresford on December 30, 2010, 04:57:36 PM

Still remember my first... I felt like a kid again and still do when ever I get a look at one. An awesome bird that never grows old.

Congrats.
Tim