Bald eagle conservation reaches new milestone in Indiana
An eagle! Someone on the wooden dock shouted and then pointed. Everyone looked, spellbound.
It was a windy, autumn day at Patoka Lake in southern Indiana when the flapping wings crossed the sky and a dozen pairs of angler eyes turned away from the water and gazed upward.
One bird, one American bald eagle, its powerful wings propelling flight, appropriately in the tiny community of Birdseye, was simultaneously offering a bird’s-eye view the pull of its symbolism, history and majesty.
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Although this nest is at the Pine Grove Boat Ramp at Monroe Lake where eagles frequent, it is not an eagle nest but a much smaller nest than the eagles would build. Lew Freedman