Beautiful American Bald Eagles

Most of the photos on this page are photos I took. We have Bald Eagles all around us and I try to get their picture whenever I can. The eagle above we see almost everyday when we come home. He sets in the tree along the highway and watchs the highway for road kill and the lake on the other side for fish.

This eagle was after some road kill in front of our house. I tried to get a good picture but he had sharp eyes and could see me sneaking through the woods.

• Eagle's are Protected
• In Wisconsin Delisted
• Length: female 34-43 inches male 30-35 inches
• Wingspan: 7 feet

Eagles don't get the white on their head and tail until they are at least two years old.

The bald eagle was made the national bird of the USA in 1782.

There are people out there who shot,poison and tear down the nest of Eagles. It's ashamed anyone would do that.

John F. Kennedy:

"The Founding Fathers made an appropriate choice when they selected the bald eagle as the emblem of the nation. The fierce beauty and proud independence of this great bird aptly symbolizes the strength and freedom of America."

This eagle was watching for road kill and fish by a lake just down the highway from our house different lake from the first Eagle.

Eagle with deer carcus in the potato fields near our house. Slide show below.

Eagles will kill baby loons. If a baby loon gets separated from Mom the eagle will fly down and get the baby. They will also kill the grown-ups if they can.

We once had a loon on the lake where we lived who got caught in a small open hole that had not froze over, (Loons have to have lots of room to fly off the lake) The rest of the lake was froze.

Two eagles walked around and circled the hole all day long trying to get the loon. The lake later opened up and the loon was able to get out. If the loon hadn't got out it would have become exhausted and hungry. The eagles would have got the loon once they realized he was weak. Eagles can't walk on water as we all know and once the water opened up the eagles had to leave and the loon ended up with enough space to fly out.

This is a nesting pair of eagles. (Not my photo). We had a nesting pair on the lake where we use to live. It's fun to watch them and to watch the little ones on the side of the nest. Eagles mate for life. They will only get a new mate if theirs should die. Most nest are two feet and five feet across. Nest are made up of twigs, moss,grasses and feathers. The nest on our lake disappeared and no one could figure out why.

There were people that had their cottages under that nest that hated it being there. Boats would park there all the time looking up at the nest and watching the Eagles. We had heard they didn't like it so from what we heard they managed to destroy it.

The eagles you see here were in a wildlife park near us. They keep them if they are injured and can't be returned to the wild. Many causes of death and injury to eagles are cars, shot for sport or money, electrocuted on power poles, lead poisoning from eating on wounded or dead game that have been shot by hunters, eating poisoned meat used to bait wolves and coyotes, eating fish that have lead fishing sinkers in them, killed by mercury, PCBs, dioxins and other chemicals that are in fish, and starved to death when food is scarce.

Eagles can live to be 20 years old.

The picture above of this young eagle was taken by my husband in our backyard on November 22, 2009.

They say that eagles will take cats. We have never lost a cat.

We once found a dead baby fawn in one of our trees. The fawn could have gotten there from an eagle picking it up and then dropping it. We really know. They will take down fawns.

This is a funny video. Not my video.

Slideshow of the eagles in a potato field near our house.