The ultimate celebrity sighting while on vacation.
Random Posted by Yancy Lent July 23rd, 2008Since I was a kid I’ve always kept a short list in my head of celebrities I’d most like to see out in public. As I’ve gotten older those on the list have changed from Hollywood / movie types to sports figures, until a couple years ago I came up with the ultimate celebrity; the Bald Eagle.
Today, alone in a Kayak on the North East side of Alfred Lake in Hope, Maine my telephoto lens came within a hundred feet of a Bald Eagle in flight.
It was shortly out of sight but I was able to get off about 5 pictures. I was also able to watch it playing in the thermals from our dock about an hour later. Now I’m off to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_Eagle to see if i can find out more about its feeding times, etc to better time my trip(s) out tomorrow.
I’ll have the pictures up next week. I have my laptop but no cord, sorry.
The list right now, in order, the Bald Eagle is still number one.
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_armstrong
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Several years ago, a bald eagle took up temporary residence along the Brandywine River in Wilmington, Delaware, right outside the office of a client I was visiting for the week. It was quite a sight indeed.
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:16 pm
The Bald eagle is definitely a more exciting sighting that any human celebrity!
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:26 pm
There are a couple of sites along Lake Erie where you have a chance to see Bald Eagles. We have been fortunate to sight a couple of them. “Magnificent” is how I would describe them.
Of course, I am a sucker for all raptors. Especially hawks.
July 24th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Very cool, I actually was lucky enough to see one when visiting IBM Boulder back in January 2007!