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June 13, 2005

A magnificent sight

As is my habit when we stay at our summer camp, the first thing I did when I got up Saturday morning was walk out to look at the pond. The camp is on the northwest shore with a view of the west slope of Mount Sunapee. It had rained hard during the night, and mist hovered above the pond. I stepped out on the porch and said something to my wife, who was behind me.

Suddenly I heard a flutter from the boulders a few feet to our left. This is not uncommon. A great blue heron often fishes from the rocks. This heron, unlike some others I have observed, is wary of humans and ever quick to flee their sounds. But as I turned toward the flutter, first my ears and then my eyes told me the bird taking flight was far more substantial than the spindly heron.

I saw the white head on the dark body and knew instantly it was a bald eagle – an adult male. I watched it rise from the rocks on powerful wings and saw its white tail bob as it pumped into the mist and across the pond. Just before it reached the trees on the other side of the pond, it turned right – south – and sped off and out of view. The whole sighting took perhaps 20 seconds.

Years ago, my friend and colleague Jim Graham took our family on a canoe trip to Lake Umbagog, where we saw the nesting bald eagles. They had been brought there in 1989 in the hope that they would mate and lead to a resurgence of bald eagles in New Hampshire. Although the species remains rare here, bald eagles have been sighted relatively often in recent years. But I had never seen one so close by.

Later, when we went down to the pond to swim, we saw the blackened, dried-out head of a horned pout on a flattish stone six feet from the pond. I surmised that my morning entrance had interrupted a meal, but I can’t be sure.

I left the fish head on the stone, hoping the eagle would come back for it. Next morning we rose at about the same time. The only thing on the boulder was the fish head.

Posted by Mike Pride at June 13, 2005 02:31 PM

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