28 Feb, 2018
Bald Eagle now a local resident
Got this picture of this fella visiting in my back yard in January 2015. Since then he has been around off and on. Late last spring there was a juvenile Bald Eagle sitting in field while I was planting soybeans and he was trying to grab a very young fawn. He did not succeed and it wasn't from lack of trying. The mother of the fawn came to the rescue and chased the eagle for over a half mile jumping into the air as if she could fly. I have heard that there is a pair of adults nesting on the